‘Don’t Want to Get Vaccinated, Leave’ — Hedge Fund Founder Mandates Covid Shots in His Office (CNBC)
Anthony Scaramucci, founder and co-managing partner of SkyBridge, told CNBC on Friday he’s mandated Covid shots at the office of his hedge fund. He also called on all eligible Americans to go out and get vaccinated. “We’re a private company. If somebody wants to fight me over the vaccine mandate, that’s fine. Let’s take it to the court,” Scaramucci said on “Squawk Box,” while imploring other firms to follow suit.
The Not-So-Happy Story of the World’s Biggest SPAC (NYMag.com)
Bill Ackman isn’t known for always being right. He is, however, known for influencing large numbers of other investors, selling them on his ideas, and sometimes making them lots and lots of money — but also sometimes being disastrously wrong, failing to deliver on his promises, and losing lots of everyone’s money in the process. Early last year, Ackman made billions of dollars betting the markets would fall as COVID spread around the globe. A few years prior to that, he lost a fortune on a high-profile bet that he could get supplements-maker Herbalife declared a pyramid scheme by regulators (who declined to do so).
Banks Are Giving the Ultra-Rich Cheap Loans to Fund Their Lifestyle (Bloomberg)
Billionaire hedge fund manager Alan Howard paid $59 million for a Manhattan townhouse in March. Just two months later he obtained a $30 million mortgage from Citigroup Inc. Denis Sverdlov, worth $6.1 billion thanks to his shares in electric-vehicle maker Arrival, recently pledged part of that stake for a line of credit from the same bank. For Edgar and Clarissa Bronfman the loan collateral is paintings by Damien Hirst and Diego Rivera, among others. Philippe Laffont, meanwhile, pledged stakes in a dozen funds at his Coatue Management for a credit line at JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Pandemic Gains 23% From AMC, Hertz: Hedge Fund Is Born: Falls 8% On Thursday, Underperform Market (VIA.com)
(VIANEWS) – Dan Gropper, a hedge fund manager was short AMC Entertainment Holdings Inc. at the time the Redditors launched their moon launch for the chain of movie theaters. Bloomberg Quint confirmed that he made the decision to stop running his new fund six months ago. Gropper was a former manager at Aurelius Capital Management before he started Carronade Capital Management. He covered 20% on January 26, as AMC closed below $5. The rest was paid the next day, when the stock shot up to $20.
Credit Catalysts: How BlueBay’s Global Credit Alpha Strategy is Thriving with Active Trading Style (Hedge Week)
BlueBay Asset Management’s Global Credit Alpha Long/Short strategy has generated a commendable track record since launching almost a decade ago, taking an active catalyst-driven approach to trading corporate and sovereign credit markets. With a broad investment mandate, and no restrictions on geographies, sectors or ratings universe, the liquid credit long/short strategy has never suffered a single down year since its November 2011 inception. What binds the portfolio together, says Senior Portfolio Manager Geraud Charpin, is the liquidity profile of its investments.
Top Hedge Fund Gains 400% as China Battles Commodity Prices (Bloomberg)
When China’s government started paying more attention to surging commodity prices a few months back, hedge fund manager Richard Lee’s trading models told him a correction was imminent. Inventories of reinforced steel bars, a key construction material, started rising before the arrival of the summer slow season, and China’s State Council had warned repeatedly on price increases, he said in an interview.
Some Hedge Funds Stick with Reflation Trade Despite Bond Position Pain (HellenicShippingNews.com)
Some hedge funds are holding onto their bets against Treasuries even after a sharp U.S. government bond rally bruised bearish investors earlier this week. Leveraged funds were net short several longer-dated maturities of Treasuries in futures markets, the latest data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commission showed last week. This potentially left them vulnerable to the bond rally as some market participants exited the so-called reflation trade on concerns that U.S. growth will slow in the second half of the year.
The Shareholder of IMV (NASDAQ: IMV) is Buying Shares (Analyst Ratings)
Today, the Shareholder of IMV (IMV), Fonds De Solidarité Ftq, bought shares of IMV for $2.5M. This recent transaction increases Fonds De Solidarité Ftq’s holding in the company by 12% to a total of $18.05 million. This is Ftq’s first transaction since reporting a Buy transaction on MIST back in January 2020. The company has a one-year high of $5.73 and a one-year low of $1.31. Currently, IMV has an average volume of 190.27K.
Hedge Funder Buys Allison Island Spec Home for $14M (The Real Deal)
Spec home developer James Curnin sold a waterfront Allison Island home to hedge fund manager Adam Wyden for $13.9 million, The Real Deal has learned. Curnin sold the 7,000-square-foot, six-bedroom house at 6431 Allison Road in Miami Beach to Wyden, who heads his investment firm ADW Capital. Curnin is the great-grandson of developer Jack Parker.
Oak Street Health Inc (OSH) CEO Michael T Pykosz Sold $10.7 million of Shares (Guru Focus)
CEO of Oak Street Health Inc, Michael T Pykosz, sold 185,000 shares of OSH on 07/20/2021 at an average price of $57.63 a share. The total sale was $10.7 million.
Ex-Barclays Tax Trader Mannan Emerges at Hedge Fund Autonomy (Bloomberg Quint)
(Bloomberg) — Sadat Mannan, who led a desk at Barclays Plc that made hundreds of millions of dollars from tax-avoiding transactions before leaving last year, has found a new booming market at hedge fund Autonomy Capital Research LLP. Mannan, 41, helps lead the fund’s trading in derivatives linked to carbon, where prices have soared in Europe this year, according to people familiar with the matter. He quietly joined the firm last year and also serves as treasurer, reporting to Chief Investment Officer Robert Gibbins and Chief Executive Officer Ivan Ritossa, the people said. Jonathan Gasthalter, an external spokesman, declined to comment.
