Jim Chanos is a legendary short seller.
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September 17 - Hedge Funds, News
On July 17th, famous short seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos (the short seller who played a key role in uncovering fraud at Enron and WorldCom) mentioned at the Delivering Alpha conference...
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July 17 - Hedge Funds
Activist investor Carl Icahn bumped up his stake in Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK), a company where he has already pushed for sweeping changes in governance.
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November 21 - Hedge Funds
T. Boone Pickens losses rear-end on wind energy(KRMG)
Oilman T. Boone Pickens says his wind energy plan was costly. He talked about it on MSNBC’s Morning Joe Wednesday morning.
"I've lost my a-- in wind power.
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April 13 - Hedge Funds
Wuzhu Asia Partners, founded by former director of Asia research at New York-based multi-billion dollar hedge fund Kingdon Capital Kyu Ho, is set to launch a pan-Asia long/short...
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February 23 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Jim Chanos, founder of Kynikos Associates Ltd., Jamie Zimmerman, chief executive officer of Litespeed Management LLC, Michael Novogratz, principal at Fortress Investment Group...
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February 22 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Hedge fund manager Philip Falcone is ruling out a bankruptcy filing for his telecom startup LightSquared Inc, one day after U.S.
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February 16 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Whitman Capital LLC’s president was charged with taking part in two separate insider-trading conspiracies, using illegal tips on Google Inc., Polycom Inc.
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February 13 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Jim Chanos' Kynikos Associates LP and Daniel Loeb's Third Point are having a brighter holiday season after they "won dismissal from an $8 billion lawsuit accusing the two hedge...
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December 27 - Hedge Funds
James Chanos’ Kynikos Associates LP and Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC won dismissal from an $8 billion lawsuit accusing the two hedge funds of spreading negative information...
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December 27 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
New Jersey Superior Court Judge Stephan C. Hansbury dismissed Fairfax Financial's $8 billion lawsuit against Jim Chanos' Kynikos and Dan Loeb's Third Point.
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December 24 - Hedge Funds
Bloomberg reports that hedge funds received illegal inside information from Henry Paulson. We aren't surprised a tiny bit.
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November 30 - Hedge Funds
"I think we probably came back a little bit more bearish….Our concerns about what we saw in Australia: an economy clearly tied to China has hitched its wagon to the tail of ...
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November 23 - Hedge Funds
Citigroup (C) lost -38.47% in the third quarter, going from $41.62 a share on June 30 to just $25.61 a share on September 30, and it shows by the number of hedge fund managers...
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November 16 - Hedge Funds
China is on “a bigger and faster treadmill” than ever as property sales slow, said Jim Chanos, the hedge-fund manager who’s shorting banking stocks on a bet the market will...
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October 28 - News
Adam Sender, founder of Exis Capital Management, cut his teeth at Steve Cohen's SAC Capital after graduating from the University of Michigan with a degree in history.
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October 21 - Hedge Funds
Barton Biggs, the hedge fund manager who bought stocks when the market bottomed in March 2009, boosted bullish bets on equities in his Traxis Global Equity Macro Fund on improving...
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October 18 - Hedge Funds
Jim Chanos, the founder of Kynikos, was at the CNBC's Delivering Alpha talking about the stocks he is shorting.
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September 14 - The Smart Set
"Here’s how it works. I invest that $1 million but this time only $800,000 goes directly into the fund and $200,000 becomes a loan to Cadie.
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June 30 - Hedge Funds
It is rare to have "Jim Chanos", the legendary short seller, and "bullish" in the same sentence. Not anymore.
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June 27 - The Smart Set
Earlier today we showed how Jim Chanos made out like a bandit by shorting Chinese stocks.
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May 25 - The Smart Set
Jim Chanos has been short China's real estate market for the last 18 months.
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May 25 - The Smart Set
“If this overheated property market, on all sides of the market, if it does not coool down in 2011, we will continue seeing more hot money to pour into it and more national ...
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April 25 - Uncategorized
Legendary short seller Jim Chanos recently started going long on certain shares.
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April 12 - The Smart Set
More than a year ago Jim Chanos raised questions about China’s enormous real estate and construction investments and stated that he is shorting China’s real estate bubble.
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March 23 - News
Old emails sent by the Third Point hedge fund manager and now coming to light in the Fairfax Financial litigation are coming back to haunt one of the industry’s top performers...
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March 11 - News
Daniel Loeb's Third Point, Steve Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors LP, Jim Chanos' Kynikos Associates Ltd.
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March 6 - Hedge Funds
Most investors are interested in what hedge fund managers recommend today, Insider Monkey, your source for free insider trading data, pays more attention to what they recommended...
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February 8 - Hedge Funds
China is going through a property boom. The master of short selling, Jim Chanos, questioned China's real estate investments and said he is now shorting China.
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January 18 - The Smart Set
In his latest investor letter, Whitney Tilson informs his investors that he carefully analyzed his entire short book and that he's convinced he will be making money on these shorts...
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January 7 - Hedge Funds
It's neither easy nor straightforward to determine who the best hedge fund managers are. One method used by magazines is identifying the best paid hedge fund managers.
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December 31 - Hedge Funds
Jim Chanos is many people’s favorite short seller. He almost singlehandedly vindicated short sellers by revealing the ongoing fraud at Enron and WorldCom.
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December 18 - The Smart Set
" If someone has fiduciary responsibility , an employee, and even an ex-employee with ties to the company, a lawyer working for a company, an accountant working for a company...
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December 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Shortseller Jim Chanos has a stellar reputation. He picks shorts from the industries that are going through innovation and creating a lot of technological obsolescence.
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December 16 - Hedge Funds, The Smart Set
Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos said in a CNBC interview that the auto sector was a hands down chronic money loser.
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November 15 - Hedge Funds