Lansdowne Partners, one of Europe's biggest hedge fund managers, saw its flagship UK fund return 5.7 percent in January, in a sign the industry is benefiting from a rebound in...
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February 2 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
TPG Capital LLP agreeed to buy GlobeOp Financial Services SA, a hedge fund administrator, for about 508 million pounds ($800 million).
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February 1 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Swiss fund of hedge funds manager Gottex GFMS.S said it would slash running costs by 15 percent in 2012 after assets fell by some $1 billion (637 million pounds) from a year earlier...
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January 31 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Troy Gayeski, senior portfolio manager at SkyBridge Capital LLC, discusses liquidity conditions for hedge funds and high-yield bonds, and efforts by the U.S.
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January 30 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Texas’s Permanent School Fund may hire in-house money managers to oversee its $25 billion in assets because returns are being “eaten alive” by hedge-fund fees, according...
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January 27 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
The following day, a corporate broker from Firm X and Punch management had a 45-minute conference call with Einhorn, during which inside information was disclosed to him, the ...
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January 26 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Legendary hedge fund billionaire George Soros is attending the World Economic Forum in Davos on Wednesday. (more…)
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January 25 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Several high-profile hedge fund managers are preparing to strike out on their own this year, supported by strong followings and unfazed by a year of poor industry performance ...
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January 25 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd (CP) said William Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management has asked to elect five of its nominees to the company's board as the proxy...
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January 24 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Redemption requests by hedge fund clients have fallen to the lowest monthly level on record as improving market sentiment combined with a typical seasonal lull in asset re-allocation...
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January 23 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Nouriel Roubini, the New York University professor who predicted the 2008 financial crisis, and Ian Bremmer, president of Eurasia Group, talk about the outlook for the global ...
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January 20 - Macroeconomic Predictions
Faber doesn’t think U.S. stocks are particularly attractive right now, and he is in Switzerland at the moment.
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January 20 - Macroeconomic Predictions
Billionaire Carl Icahn has purchased debt from Philip Falcone’s LightSquared Inc.’s bondholders as the satellite-broadband-service provider struggles to start service, two...
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January 20 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Andrew Feldstein said: “I think credit derivatives are incredible valuable tools to the financial markets, and I think the financial markets would be much worse off without ...
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January 19 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Craig Effron, co-founder of New York-based Scoggin Capital Management LP, was on Bloomberg today talking with Adam Johnson. Effron is bullish about asset management stocks.
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January 19 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
As a profit-making endeavor, managing other people’s money is hard to beat. The business requires very little invested capital.
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January 19 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
As the European markets open high after France and Australia and seven other Eurozone nations downgraded by S&P on Friday, Marc Faber, the legendary investor and the publisher...
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January 18 - Macroeconomic Predictions
Level Global Investors LP co-founder Anthony Chiasson and two other people were taken into custody as part of the five-year U.S.
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January 18 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
The stock market performance in China can be described as "tragic" in 2011. Shanghai Composite Index was down 21.68, while Shenzhen Component Index declined 28.41% last year.
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January 17 - Macroeconomic Predictions
Royce & Associates, founded by Chuck Royce in 1972, employs a value-based approach to invest in companies with small market capitalizations.
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
The Canadian National Railway publicly cautioned its former chief executive, E. Hunter Harrison, on Friday against participating in the hedge fund manager William A.
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January 16 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
With President Obama making official request for Congress to raise the debt ceiling by $1.2 trillion, Peter Schiff talked on FOX Business today and believes the situation in the...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Paulson’s credit funds owned at least $2.4 billion of mortgage- backed securities on a “notional” basis in the third quarter, or at least 20 percent of its holdings, according...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Buffett said publicly: "I fully trust Obama!", and raised money for Obama with his aged body.
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January 12 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Hedge funds have started the new year with a bout of the January blues, as investors get their books in order to start afresh in 2012, after last year's rollercoaster ride, data...
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January 12 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Move over, John Arnold: the U.S. natural gas market has a new hedge-fund king, operating as skillfully and mysteriously as the ex-Enron wunderkind who once wowed the trade.
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January 11 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
At the beginning of the year 2012, the saying of “Short China” sounded again during the worldwide economy downturn.
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January 10 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
William Ackman’s plan to wage a proxy fight to install a new chief executive officer at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
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January 10 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Jim Rogers said publicly on Tuesday last week that the euro and Swiss franc will show buying opportunities in 2012. Although in the past few weeks he had sold some euros...
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January 9 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Legendary investor Jim Rogers shared his outlook for 2012 in an interview with Shanghai’s "First Financial Daily" newspaper.
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January 9 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
John Paulson, the billionaire money manager who’s vowed to restore his hedge fund to profitability after the worst year of his career, may have to take a cue from rival Ken ...
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January 9 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Hedge funds sank almost 5% last year amidst market volatility and the European sovereign debt crisis.
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January 6 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
High-frequency traders are continuing to build their presence on European stock markets with new data from Nasdaq OMX, revealing that the firms doubled their trading activity ...
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January 5 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
If hedge fund manager Eddie Lampert wants to save one of the oldest retail empires in the United States, he should consider shutting down Sears Holdings Corp's Kmart discount ...
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January 3 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
For years, finance experts have put together statistical analyses that suggest something fishy is going on with some of the reported returns in a large universe of hedge funds...
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December 30 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Hedge funds run by Caxton Associates LP, SAC Capital Advisors LP, Avenue Capital and Blackstone Group LP have been buying housing-related investments, betting on a rebound.
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December 29 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
When Kmart acquired Sears (SHLD) in 2005, Chairman Edward Lampert said the new company would have the geographic reach and scale to compete with Wal-Mart Stores Inc.
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December 28 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Bruce Berkowitz, whose $8 billion Fairholme Fund is suffering its second-worst year on record because of wrong-way bets on financial firms, may have lost about $190 million today...
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December 27 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
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
There will be no holiday cheer for hedge fund manager John Paulson this month, as his dismal performance in 2011 is capped off by another miserable performance so far in December...
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December 23 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
More clients asked for their money back from hedge funds in December than in the rest of 2011, in line with the traditional year-end evaluation of funds' performance after a year...
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December 21 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn is taking an even harder line against Green Mountain Coffee Roasters (GMCR.O), his big short trade, claiming a recent audit committee review of...
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December 20 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
The two men, head of securities and commodities fraud units at the New York office, faced a dilemma.
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December 20 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Soros Fund Management, the investment company of billionaire George Soros, has laid off a handful of analysts and portfolio managers in recent months.
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December 19 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
The fund, offered by Fir Tree affiliate Camellia Advisors, raised $96 million starting Dec.
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December 16 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Stocks favored by hedge funds fell more than the S&P 500 during the first three days of the week.
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December 15 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Michael Platt, the founder of the $30 billion hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management, spoke to Bloomberg TV today and shared his views on the European debt, banks, and opportunities...
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December 15 - Macroeconomic Predictions
