American CEOs want more clarity from President Donald Trump on China so they can better plan their business spending needs, former White House communications director Anthony ...
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August 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Occidental Petroleum Corp (OXY.N) on Monday sharply criticized activist investor Carl Icahn’s efforts to oust and replace four of its directors, and attacked his...
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July 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
WHP Global (WHP), a new brand management platform led by Chairman & CEO Yehuda Shmidman has launched backed by a USD200 million equity commitment from funds managed by Oaktree...
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July 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Former White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci sees a landslide re-election for President Donald Trump in 2020, saying on Wednesday that voters will be wary of ...
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July 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
President Donald Trump said he hasn’t decided who will replace Sarah Huckabee Sanders as White House press secretary but that it won’t be his former communications director...
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June 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A once rising-star hedge fund seems to have hit a snag. It might be another chapter in the age-old book Bond Managers Struggle When They Try To Do Stocks. The back story.
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May 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Star fund manager Michael Platt has been named the City’s richest hedgie for the fifth year in a row, after his wealth surged by £700 million.
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May 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Glenview Capital Management lost about $2 billion in assets in less than a year as investors fled a fund that began charging fees after it was initially free.
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May 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Opinionated? Sure. Outspoken? You bet.
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April 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
As disastrous as Anthony Scaramucci’s brief turn as White House communications director was, his rebooted career in hedge funds is going much better.
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January 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Dell Technologies Inc. has one class of publicly listed stock outstanding, a tracking stock (referred to as DVMT) that it issued as part of its acquisition of EMC Corp.
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November 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Anthony Scaramucci, founder of hedge fund SkyBridge Capital and the Trump administration's White House communications director for 10 days in 2017, is selling his Southampton, ...
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September 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BlueMountain Capital Management, a $21bn New York hedge fund that is expanding its equities strategies, has recruited a portfolio manager from a rival to run its investments in...
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July 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - BlueMountain Capital Management on Tuesday said it hired four portfolio managers to build out the hedge fund’s new fixed-income strategy focused on relative...
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July 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Activist investor Carl Icahn boosted his stake in Energen Corp (EGN.N), a filing showed on Tuesday, as he eyes a potential takeover of the oil and gas producer.
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June 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
David Einhorn’s main hedge fund at Greenlight Capital fell 1.1 percent in April, extending its loss this year to 14.9 percent, according to a client update seen by Bloomberg...
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May 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
George Soros called cryptocurrencies a bubble in January. Now his $26 billion family office is planning to trade digital assets.
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April 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Even as the stock market capped off a third day of gains following a foray into correction territory last week, safe-haven assets are enjoying a moment in the sun.
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February 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Och-Ziff Capital Management on Tuesday named Robert Shafir as its new chief executive officer, succeeding Dan Och after a battle over who will run the hedge fund firm...
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January 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Howard Marks, the billionaire founder of the hedge fund Oaktree Capital, says investors are taking on uncharacteristic levels of risk as returns dry up.
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January 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading, News
Thirteen years ago Eric Mindich set an industry record when he raised $3 billion for his new hedge fund Eton Park.
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March 23 - Hedge Funds
Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals dropped Tuesday after news surfaced late Monday that billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman sold his remaining stock in the company.
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March 14 - Hedge Funds
Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management returned about 1 percent in 2016, the second-worst annual performance ever for the billionaire investor, according to people familiar ...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he will be “rallying against overregulation” in his role as a special adviser to President-elect Donald Trump.
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December 22 - Hedge Funds
Top executives of hedge fund Platinum Partners were arrested Monday morning and charged with defrauding investors in one of the biggest such cases since Bernard L.
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December 19 - Hedge Funds
When hedge-fund king Anthony Scaramucci left Lehman Brothers in 2005 to start SkyBridge Capital from scratch, a few people thought he was nuts, including his own daughter.
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October 27 - Hedge Funds
SkyBridge Capital was founded in 2005 by Anthony Scaramucci, who currently runs the fund together with Raymond Nolte.
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September 6 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Anthony Scaramucci-led Skybridge Capital recently submitted its first 13F filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), revealing a U.S equity portfolio worth $208...
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February 14 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Hedge fund boss gives £5 million to build new museum maths gallery (Standard) A hedge fund manager who built his business on mathematical reasoning has given the Science Museum...
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September 10 - Hedge Funds
Third Point LLC, a hedge fund controlled by activist investor Daniel Loeb, has bought more than 1 million shares of the common stock of Roper Industries, Inc. (NYSE:ROP).
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May 27 - Hedge Funds
Tiger Global Management LLC, the $14 billion investment firm run by Chase Coleman, increased its stakes in industrial companies last quarter and reduced holdings of technology...
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May 19 - Hedge Funds
From Asian Internet stocks, which have boomed over the last year, to food and paper products companies, prominent hedge fund investors listed their favorite stocks on Thursday...
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May 16 - Hedge Funds
In a world with lots of divisiveness - among races, political parties, income and even between those of the same politcal bent - there is one divisive battle that seems to have...
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January 18 - The Smart Set
Kyle Bass, a hedge fund manager who made a fortune betting against Greek bonds and US subprime, dropped a bombshell at a conference in September: he is investing in Argentina, ...
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November 21 - Hedge Funds
Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn is taking a more conservative approach to his investment portfolio even as wagers that stocks would fall caused his results to trail the Standard...
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November 1 - Hedge Funds, News
Editor's Note: Related tickers: American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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August 22 - Hedge Funds
The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected an $18 million settlement that would have banned billionaire hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone from the securities industry...
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July 22 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE:AN), Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD), Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corp (NASDAQ:OSH), Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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June 14 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (ADR) (NYSE:RBS), JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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June 12 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), Express Scripts Holding Company (NASDAQ:ESRX), QUALCOMM, Inc.
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May 10 - Hedge Funds
Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) certainly receives its fair share of coverage throughout the trading day, and then some.
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March 26 - News
George Soros’, Soros Fund Management, a hedge fund management company, which he founded in 1969, bought 2% convertible Bond holdings in Digital River, Inc.
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October 12 - Hedge Funds
During the first presidential debate, a Yahoo Finance poll found that 80% of voters (33,782) believed Mitt Romney gave a stronger performance than President Obama.
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October 9 - Hedge Funds
Sears Holding Company has had its membership in the S&P 500 revoked.
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August 30 - Hedge Funds
My post yesterday contrasting Seth Klarman with many of his more well-known hedge fund peers has generated a ton of feedback, which is cool.
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July 24 - Hedge Funds
Smaller-sized hedge funds are increasingly throwing in the towel in Asia as they struggle to attract money from risk-wary institutional investors, casting a cloud over prospects...
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June 4 - Hedge Funds
Hedge funds are piling into bets against the bonds of core euro zone countries like Germany and France, signalling a growing fear that nations once considered safe havens could...
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May 30 - Hedge Funds
Hedge funds are considering ways to mount a counterattack against the Swiss National Bank, whose attempt to wrest control of the surging franc caught investors off-guard.
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September 11 - Uncategorized
