Michael Platt’s wealth swelled even further last year as the billionaire continues to outperform most hedge funds with the freedom to take on riskier bets after returning clients...
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
NEW YORK & CHICAGO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Twin Brook Capital Partners (“Twin Brook” or the “Firm”), the middle market direct lending subsidiary of Angelo Gordon, today announced...
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January 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Livepeer, an Ethereum-based network that helps startups add live and on-demand video to their products, has raised $20 million in a Series B extension funding round with backing...
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January 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Naked Wines PLC (OTCQX:NWINF) jumped 100% after Light Street's Glen Kacher pitched the wine company on CNBC.
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October 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, committed up to $245 million from its $16.5 billion long-term endowment at its board of regents meeting Oct.
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October 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire investor David Einhorn isn't dedicating any time to weighing up whether to jump into cryptocurrencies, saying the lack of regulation in the industry makes it "too ...
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October 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Climate-conscious investors tend to buy green stocks or build big stakes in less-responsible companies and aim to persuade them to change.
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September 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Warren Buffett's Deputy Explained How He Snowballed his Retirement Account from $70,000 into $264 Million, How He Shrugs Off Losses, and How People can Save a Fortune (Business...
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September 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Bill Ackman’s hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP is in discussions to raise $1 billion to help fund its bet on Vivendi SE’s Universal Music Group, according ...
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August 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Alan Howard, the co-founder of macro hedge fund Brevan Howard, has invested in German crypto asset manager Iconic Holding, according to the shareholder list of the German Handelsregister...
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August 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
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.
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July 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Many leading hedge funds are aggressively increasing exposure to blockchain technologies and cryptocurrency.
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July 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
(Reuters) - Box Inc said on Tuesday hedge fund Starboard Value LP had asked to invest in the cloud storage vendor alongside private equity firm KKR & Co Inc, despite calling it...
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July 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
On a summer Friday afternoon last year, hedge-fund manager Dan Kamensky broke bankruptcy laws.
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June 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Citadel Securities reached a truce with a British hedge fund over the attempted hiring of a senior trader, ending a lawsuit that was set to consider the makeup of a secret algorithm...
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June 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire hedge fund pioneer Stanley Druckenmiller believes the Federal Reserve’s continued easy money measures have distorted asset prices and lulled investors into a false...
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June 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Though billionaire investor Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, has previously expressed concern about the future of bitcoin, he has...
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May 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund Honest Capital said on Tuesday that it opposes a $2.8 billion deal that At Home Group Inc signed last week to sell itself to private equity firm ...
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May 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
If you know anything about global macro hedge funds, you probably know the name Colin Lancaster.
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May 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
It was the kind of moment that would normally sink a hedge fund: Dan Sundheim was on Zoom, apologizing to clients for losing $4 billion in a single month.
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April 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
In October 2013, when Carl Icahn started selling his large position in Netflix, many believed the vaunted billionaire investor had done it again.
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March 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Voya Prime Rate Trust has selected Saba Capital Management, LP (Saba) to serve as the new investment adviser to the Fund.
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March 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Fortress Investment Group LLC is offering the creditors of defunct crypto exchange Mt.
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March 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge fund manager Dan Niles told CNBC on Wednesday he likes shares of Magna International as an attractively priced way to get exposure to the buzzy electric vehicle market.
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March 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Alan Howard is synonymous with the hedge fund he founded nearly two decades ago. His chief executive officer is on a mission to change that.
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February 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The co-founder and chairman of hedge fund giant Marshall Wace, Sir Paul Marshall, tweeted that the pro-Trump woman killed by authorities in Washington amounted to "cold-blooded...
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January 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Kyle Bass, Hayman Capital Management chief investment officer, joined “Squawk Box” on Wednesday to discuss what he thinks may be the biggest issues President-elect Joe Biden...
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December 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
It’s been a tough year for David Einhorn, one-time enfant terrible of hedge funds.
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December 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire David Tepper has returned to New Jersey -- a move that may cost him $120 million in state income taxes this year.
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October 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
HONG KONG - Venture capitalist Neil Shen’s Sequoia Capital China is setting up a hedge-fund business to leverage its record of choosing winners in Chinese technology.
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September 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The billionaire investor George Soros is not shy about making predictions, in financial markets or otherwise.
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June 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire Alan Howard has doubled his investors’ money in the coronavirus crisis.
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May 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Crispin Odey, one of Europe’s highest-profile hedge fund managers, said that governments may ban private gold ownership if they lose control of inflation in the wake of the ...
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May 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - Billionaire Alan Howard’s hedge fund generated gains across the firm in February as many peers struggled in the wake of coronavirus.
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March 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Alan Howard stepping down as chief executive officer of Brevan Howard Asset Management is a logical step after his 2017 decision to return to running money directly himself.
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November 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Alan Howard, whose Brevan Howard Asset Management once managed $40 billion, is stepping down as chief executive of the firm he founded and has been struggling to revive.
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October 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett turned 89 on Friday, but the best birthday present he ever received came long ago, before he made his first penny — before...
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August 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Brevan Howard Asset Management’s flagship hedge fund returned 3.9% in June, capping off its best first half since 2009.
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July 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Warren Buffett is possibly the financial world's most vocal critic of hedge funds.
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March 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
BOSTON (Reuters) - Citadel, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, on Thursday told investors and employees it plans to shut down its Aptigon Capital equities unit and that...
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March 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Eddie Lampert, welcome to the 2020 campaign.
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January 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Activist investor Starboard Value LP has taken a stake in Dollar Tree Inc. and is pushing the retailer to sell its Family Dollar business and tweak its pricing model.
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January 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Sir Michael Hintze is hyper-aware of how the policy response to the global financial crisis has shaped the world today.
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September 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Brevan Howard Asset Management, the hedge fund manager run by billionaire Alan Howard, has shrunk the size of its London headquarters, cutting back on space previously used as...
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August 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Popularly known as "Hedge Fund King," Steven Cohen is now all ready to enter into the crypto business by making investments in cryptocurrency-focused hedge fund Autonomous Partners...
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July 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
LONDON (Reuters) - Two of Europe’s leading macro hedge fund investors are backing a machine learning data analytics firm that aims to give traders an edge in picking winning...
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July 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Special purpose acquisition vehicles (spacs) are hitting the US market at the fastest rate on record, attracting the likes of Goldman Sachs and hedge fund investor Daniel Loeb...
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June 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Wednesday he would take some profits on his holdings if stocks gained because the market is fully valued.
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June 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Brevan Howard Asset Management is raising money for a new macro hedge fund managed by long-time trader Minal Bathwal, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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April 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC is shutting its European hedge fund as the firm refocuses on its main products under the new leadership of Robert Shafir, according to people...
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March 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
