Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman Eddie Lampert won the support of the U.S.
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February 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge funder George Soros has warned that the ‘cold war’ consuming the United States and China could get ugly.
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January 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Bloomberg) -- It has been yet another year to forget in the world of hedge funds.
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December 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
One of the most famous and most heavily scrutinized investors in the world, Bill Ackman has endured a dismal stretch that has seen his $8 billion hedge fund Pershing Square suffer...
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December 20 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Bill Ackman of hedge fund Pershing Square is in the midst of a strong rebound in 2018 as he seeks to put his recent investing woes behind him.
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November 16 - Activism, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Fund Investor Letters, Hedge Funds, News
Sears Chairman Eddie Lampert seemingly swooped in once again to save Sears, with a plan to pay to support it through its bankruptcy operations.
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October 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Activist investor Carl Icahn scored a big payday on Monday after shares of tanker car maker American Railcar Industries surged on news that the company will merge with a subsidiary...
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October 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
Three years ago, Bill Ackman was shorting China’s currency. Now he’s going long on the country’s coffee drinkers.
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October 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Rising interest rates have yet to be the tonic that soothes hedge funds' returns, as anticipated.
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October 10 - Hedge Funds, News
Starbucks shares jumped by as much as 5% Tuesday on news that the hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman had bought a stake in the coffee retailer.
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October 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Telecom Italia SpA had problems when it was being dominated by its biggest investor, Vincent Bollore’s Vivendi SA.
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September 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
TOKYO—New York-based hedge fund King Street Capital Management LP has proposed new independent directors at Toshiba Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the ...
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August 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Greenlight Capital president David Einhorn tweeted Friday he got the pairs of short shorts that fellow billionaire Elon Musk promised him last week.
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August 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Another piece of gritty New York City is giving way to the appetites of Wall Street.
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August 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman, whose investment assets have shrunk by more than half in the last three years, has made a second round of staff cuts and laid off...
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June 27 - 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
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
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
George Soros says the euro area is in “existential danger” -- and the world’s biggest banks are flogging a flurry of products to parlay his warning into tantalizing returns...
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June 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
While activist investors have their detractors, who often accuse them of putting short-term shareholder returns above the long-term welfare of a company and its employees, it'...
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May 23 - Activism, Hedge Funds, News
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square has taken a stake in Lowe's, a source tells CNBC. Ackman's new stake in the home improvement retailer was first reported by Dow Jones.
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May 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Pershing Square Capital Management is one of the world’s largest publicly traded hedge funds, whose founder and chief executive, Bill Ackman needs no introduction.
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May 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper is close to finalizing a deal for the NFL's Carolina Panthers, according to the NFL Network and ESPN.
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May 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Short-seller Jim Chanos is blasting Elon Musk's leadership at Tesla.
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April 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said Tuesday that he hasn't spoken with President Donald Trump for several months.
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April 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Glen Point Capital LLP, a London-based hedge-fund firm that counts billionaire George Soros among its investors, has started a macro strategy to target trading opportunities in...
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April 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management is facing more bad news as many of the institutional investors in its private funds have asked to redeem their money.
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April 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Several prominent hedge funds could be among investors feeling the pain from Facebook Inc.’s recent plunge amid the Cambridge Analytica data crisis.
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March 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Tenet Healthcare Corporation (THC.N) said on Monday it reached an agreement with its largest shareholder Glenview Capital Management to vote in favor of the hospital...
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March 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
One of the top investment conferences, the 2017 Sohn yearly conference gathered hedge funds gurus like David Einhorn or Bill Ackman, who shared some of their investment ideas, ...
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March 21 - Hedge Funds, News
Bill Ackman and David Einhorn are back on top. At least when it comes to basketball picks.
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March 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Starboard Value LP, which is looking to replace the entire board of Newell Brands Inc (NWL.N), said on Wednesday three of its nominees would buy about $25 million ...
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March 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
LONDON, March 13 (Reuters) - Odey Asset Management’s main European long-short equity hedge fund made gains of 8 percent in February, according to an investor report seen by ...
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March 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire Carl Icahn said he has a large position in Rubbermaid parent Newell Brands.
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March 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Legendary oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens has closed his hedge fund, but the octogenarian’s name may live on on the New York Stock Exchange.
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February 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
From being on top of the investing world in 2014, it's been a relatively short and hard fall for Bill Ackman's Pershing Square, the multi-billion dollar hedge fund that owned $...
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February 15 - Activism, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Fund Investor Letters, Hedge Funds, News
(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
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square has taken a passive stake in Nike, a source tells CNBC. The activist hedge fund will not pressure the shoe apparel company for changes.
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January 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The bonuses and wage increases seen after the passage of the GOP's tax overhaul won't change the wealth gap in America, hedge fund giant Ray Dalio told CNBC on Tuesday.
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January 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The torch is passed as the old hedge fund guard is losing its touch in the current market.
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January 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Legendary energy investor T. Boone Pickens is shutting the doors on his energy hedge fund, BP Capital. Pickens cited declining health as a reason for closing the fund.
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January 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Platform Specialty Products Corp (NYSE:PAH) is a $3-billion market cap producer of high-technology specialty chemical products.
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January 4 - Hedge Funds, News
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square closed its short stock position in Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF) and bought options to sell shares of the nutrition company.
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December 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management is bullish on Howard Hughes Corp (NYSE:HHC) and the hedge fund believes that the real estate developer would get a boost from...
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December 18 - Hedge Funds, News
Given billionaire Bill Ackman's previous investing history, it's not surprising that many investors pay attention to his fund's letters whenever they are released.
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December 9 - Hedge Funds, News
At Insider Monkey, we keep a close eye on hedge funds, and Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management is without a doubt one of the best.
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December 6 - Hedge Funds, News
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management has recently released a third quarter investor letter, and in it, the hedge fund talks about its investment in Chipotle Mexican...
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December 1 - Hedge Funds, News
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square has a massive investment in Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG), valued at $1.2 billion at the end of June.
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November 6 - Activism, Hedge Funds, News
At the beginning of October, Dallas, Texas hosted the Great Investors’ Best Ideas Conference.
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October 13 - Activism, Hedge Funds, News