D1 Capital Partners’s massive exposure to private bets is weighing on returns, making it one of the year’s worst-performing crossover funds.
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September 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn bet big that Intercontinental Exchange Inc. would succeed in taking over mortgage software company Black Knight Inc.
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August 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
U.S.-based Viking Global Investors has reopened its flagship long/short hedge fund for new capital having closed it more than a decade ago, according to three people familiar ...
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August 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Fallen-star fund manager Neil Woodford has seemingly given up his attempt to return to the UK fund management market.
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July 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
It’s hard to escape Ken Griffin’s name if you live in Chicago.
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July 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
One is a classical pianist. Another is a former minor league baseball player. Two others are sons of iconic Wall Streeters.
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April 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
David McCormick, the former chief executive of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, filed paperwork to run for the Senate in Pennsylvania as a Republican ...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Once hailed as the magicians of finance, quantitative hedge funds haven’t shown much dazzle lately.
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November 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio believes the workplace will never return to pre-pandemic conditions as flexibility and technology became the major driving forces in the new world...
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October 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Here’s where the Tiger Cub sees a big opportunity these days. Viking Global Investors is the latest hedge fund firm to launch a private equity fund.
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October 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Steve Cohen vented his frustration with the New York Mets Wednesday after his team lost to the San Francisco Giants, asking how professional hitters could be “this unproductive...
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August 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
Boaz Weinstein’s main hedge fund gained 25.5% in the year’s first two months as he bet against companies exposed to the coronavirus and benefited from some of the most violent...
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March 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global Investors made money in its main hedge fund last month, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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March 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Billionaire Tom Steyer is trying to turn his biggest weaknesses into strengths in the Democratic presidential contest, saying his past experience managing a ...
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December 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
York Capital Management founder Jamie Dinan said the best way to create superior return is through activism.
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December 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Gold miner Avocet Mining Plc on Wednesday appointed Paul Williams and Geoffrey Bouchier from Duff & Phelps Ltd as joint administrators, as it started its insolvency...
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August 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Cliff Asness, the chief investment officer of AQR Capital Management LLC, says his trademark factor investing strategies have been disappointing.
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May 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire Andreas Halvorsen founded $26 billion hedge fund Viking Global in 1999 and has become one of the most successful "Tiger Cubs" to have moved on from Julian Robertson...
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December 20 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global Investors disclosed Thursday that it holds a 75.6% stake in urologic biopharmaceutical company Urovant Sciences Ltd.
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October 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
LONDON, July 31 (Reuters) - The founder of credit hedge fund CQS Cayman LP told investors on Tuesday he remained “constructive” on the medium-term market outlook and that ...
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July 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
2017 was a great year for defense stocks, some of them rising as much as 30% by the end of December.
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February 7 - Hedge Funds, News
The recent overhaul of the US tax law has stirred a lot of controversy, especially with regard to who stands to benefit the most.
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February 2 - Hedge Funds, News
Is oil a good bet for 2018? Hedge funds seem to think so according to a recent report by Bloomberg. They are betting heavily on a continued uptrend in oil prices.
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February 2 - Hedge Funds, News
Undoubtedly one of the best investors ever, Warren Buffett is followed by everybody in the financial world and his statements are carefully analyzed.
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, News
The hedge fund industry has been underperforming the broader market lately, following the losses registered by some hedge fund darlings like Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (...
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February 24 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
For a very long-time Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been dominating the hedge fund popularity rankings. Things changed a bit recently. Apple Inc.
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February 23 - Hedge Funds, Lists, News
Back in 2008, billionaire Warren Buffett made a bet that hedge funds will underperform index funds over the following decade.
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February 23 - Activism, Hedge Funds, News
Viking Global Investors is a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund started in 1999 by billionaire Andreas Halvorsen.
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February 16 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Crispin Odey, whose main hedge fund has lost about 43 percent this year, says U.K.
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November 1 - Hedge Funds
Andreas Halvorsen co-founded Viking Global together his Tiger Management colleagues David Ott and Brian Olson back in 1999.
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September 22 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, Stock Analysis
After a year of misery, Bill Ackman finally is having a pretty good month.
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August 10 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire Andreas Halversen's Viking Global has generated outstanding returns for its investors ever since its inception in 1999, ranking as one of the most successful pure...
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July 25 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Through extensive research, we determined that imitating some of the picks of hedge funds and other institutional investors can help generate market-beating returns over the long...
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July 19 - Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said on Thursday that he was still betting against Herbalife Ltd (HLF.N) shares and that the company needed to make "material changes to its incentive...
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July 14 - Hedge Funds
According to a new 13D filing with the SEC, billionaire Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global may be deemed to have "dispositive power" over 75 million shares of Axovant Sciences...
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July 14 - Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global currently owns 20.54 million shares of Calpine Corp (NYSE:CPN), which amass 5.7% of the company's outstanding stock, according...
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July 6 - Hedge Funds, News
The latest round of 13F filings was wrapped up (for the most part) on Monday, as thousands of hedge funds reported the content of their equity portfolios with the SEC, as of...
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May 18 - Hedge Funds, News
The hedge fund industry is required to file quarterly 13F filings within 45 days after the end of each fiscal quarter.
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April 26 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Owing to the meteoric rise it has enjoyed over the past couple of years, billionaire Andreas Halvorson's Viking Global is counted among the leaders in the hedge fund industry...
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April 6 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Just recently, iconic investor Warren Buffett said that investors should not mimic his investment picks or those of other highly-successful money managers.
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March 1 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Kite Pharma Inc (NASDAQ:KITE) is the subject of a new 13G filing issued by Andreas Halvorsen‘s Viking Global.
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February 29 - Hedge Funds, News
Although the hedge fund industry as a whole lost money in 2015, the top 20 hedge fund managers generated roughly $15 billion net of fees last year.
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February 9 - Hedge Funds, News
Individual investors can catch a glimpse of hedge funds’ equity positions by analyzing their quarterly 13F filings.
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February 2 - Hedge Funds, News
Apparently, the hedge fund industry as a whole does not believe that a long-term bear market for U.S equities is forthcoming, as they have been net buyers of stocks during the...
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January 27 - Hedge Funds, News
It is widely-known that hedge fund strategies vary quite a lot and thus so do their targets and bets.
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January 25 - Hedge Funds, News
Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global is one of the rare hedge funds that has a monstrous amount of capital in its equity portfolio (over $26 billion), yet holds it all in a relatively...
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November 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News, Tech
In the investing community, Tiger Cubs occupy a special spot, most of them becoming very successful hedge fund managers and delivering strong returns for their investors.
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November 2 - Hedge Funds, News, Tech
While many hedge funds are still preparing their third quarter filings with the SEC, providing the main ingredients for our delectable small-cap investment strategy, some managers...
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November 2 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, News
According to a recent filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Andreas Halvorsen's (pictured) Viking Global has revealed a stake of about 43.5 million shares in First...
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October 16 - Hedge Funds, News
