Every year, when Joel Greenblatt (Trades, Portfolio) kicks off his value and special-situation investing class at Columbia Business School, he makes his students a guarantee.
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August 25 - Hedge Funds
A few days ago, Richard Mcguire’s Marcato Capital Management disclosed - in a filing with the SEC - a 41% increase in its stake in Sothebys (NYSE:BID), a $2.9 billion market...
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August 25 - Hedge Funds, News
Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF)'s options are seeing an increase in activity and the buzz on the street is that activist hedge fund manager Bill Ackman is behind it.
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August 22 - Hedge Funds, News, Options
Daniel S. Och’s OZ Management is among the investment management firms required to disclose their long equity positions once per quarter.
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August 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE:VRX) and Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management will today comply with one of Allergan, Inc.
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August 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Having lost all his savings on Black Monday in 1987, James Dinan made a remarkable comeback, setting up his hedge fund, York Capital Management, in 1991 with $3.6 million and...
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August 22 - Hedge Funds, News
It seems legendary hedge fund billionaire George Soros might be souring in his view on the market outlook for U.S.
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August 15 - Hedge Funds
Allergan, Inc. (NYSE:AGN)'s stock saw a massive upside in April when it was revealed that Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE:VRX) was trying to buy the company with the...
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August 15 - Hedge Funds, News
Speaking to CNBC’s Scott Wapner over the phone yesterday, investor and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman denied the allegations set forth against him and Valeant Pharmaceuticals...
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August 15 - Hedge Funds, News
The hedge fund billionaire Louis M.
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August 14 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire investor George Soros’ family office, Soros Fund Management, has jumped on the divest Israel band wagon.
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August 13 - Hedge Funds
As the 13F season continues, let’s take a look at Giovine Capital’s recently disclosed long equity positions for the second quarter of 2014.
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August 12 - Hedge Funds, News
James Dinan's New York-based hedge fund firm, York Capital Management, got off to a strong start this year, making it perhaps the best-performing multistrategy firm in the first...
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August 8 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Och has not been impressing Wall Street with fantastic returns in recent years, but he has been excelling at another key aspect of the hedge...
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August 6 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire investor and hedge fund Manager Bill Ackman of Pershing Square has been in the news recently for all the wrong reasons. Allergan, Inc.
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August 5 - Hedge Funds, News
Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn is struggling to find value amid a five-year stock market rally.
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August 5 - Hedge Funds
Carl Icahn makes more money between sips on his outsized Martinis than most mortals make in a lifetime.
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August 4 - Hedge Funds
New York-based multistrategy hedge fund firm Taconic Capital Advisors is raising money for a new hedge fund, a longer lock-up vehicle that will invest in illiquid situations in...
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July 31 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, who runs Kase Capital, says he has "more confidence" in his Herbalife position following Bill Ackman's latest presentation.
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July 23 - Hedge Funds
Famed investor Bill Ackman has been in a long-running battle against Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), a maker of health shakes.
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July 21 - Hedge Funds
Warren Buffett broke his own record by donating $2.8 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and family charities through selling stock.
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July 17 - Hedge Funds
The Fed is out of step with Wall Street, say some of the country’s wealthiest investors.
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July 16 - Hedge Funds
Citadel Investment Group founder Kenneth Griffin yesterday urged Congress not to ban high-frequency trading, but to focus on regulations that would improve market stability.
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July 9 - Hedge Funds
Long Island hedge-fund investor James Simons and his wife have given $50 million to the Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory to establish a center that uses quantitative tools to understand...
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July 7 - Hedge Funds
While most hedge funds continue to lag the market, having returned an average of only 2% through May, about half of what S&P 500 (INDEXSP:.INX) returned, a few of them have managed...
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July 7 - Hedge Funds, News
Pershing Square Capital Management LP, the hedge-fund firm run by Bill Ackman, posted a 25 percent gain in its main fund for the first six months of the year, according to a ...
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July 3 - Hedge Funds
Pershing Square, managed by Bill Ackman, revealed in a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that it has settled a lawsuit with Allergan Inc. (NYSE:AGN).
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July 1 - Hedge Funds, News
Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway Co. and Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd.
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June 26 - Hedge Funds
Not bad for a single trade: Baupost Group appears to have made nearly $1 billion on just one of its stock picks.
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June 9 - Hedge Funds
Questions about how to apply securities law to activist investors could complicate any potential insider trading case against billionaire Carl Icahn, pro-golfer Phil Mickelson...
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June 2 - Hedge Funds
The Milwaukee Bucks' new owners were in town Thursday taking a tour of Brew City. Marc Lasry and Wes Edens started their day at Cranky Al's in Wauwatosa.
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May 29 - 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
Richard Mashaal's Rima Senvest Management is a part of Senvest Partners LP hedge fund.
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May 27 - Hedge Funds, News
Good thing Carl Icahn and Bill Ackman made up. Otherwise this would have made for an awkward ceremony.
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May 20 - Hedge Funds
The asset management industry is playing US regulators against their international counterparts and stirring national sentiment on Capitol Hill in an attempt to head off new regulation...
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May 19 - Hedge Funds
Secretary of State John Kerry is set to introduce billionaire investor George Soros at a State Department forum Tuesday, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
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May 13 - Hedge Funds
Three weeks ago Quebec based pharmaceuticals company Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE:VRX) made a US$47 billion hostile takeover bid, in cash and stock, to acquire Irvine...
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May 12 - Hedge Funds
Uber-billionaire Warren Buffett hosted the annual shareholders meeting for Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B) in Omaha last weekend.
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May 9 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund mogul David Tepper had a case of deja vu when he ranked as the best paid hedge fund manager for the second year running by earning $3.5 billion in 2013 with a savvy...
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May 6 - Hedge Funds
David Einhorn, the billionaire hedge fund manager whose stock picks are closely watched on Wall Street, is not a big fan of so-called copycat traders who simply latch onto his...
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May 5 - Hedge Funds
As a newly amended filing with the SEC showed, Bill Ackman has reduced his exposure to Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (USA) (NYSE:CP), currently holding around 13.94 million...
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April 30 - Hedge Funds, News
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC (NYSE:OZM) fell the most in three weeks after the Wall Street Journal reported that the hedge-fund firm run by Daniel Och helped finance...
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April 28 - Hedge Funds
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square has added Allergan, Inc. (NYSE:AGN) to its equity portfolio.
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April 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, in an amended filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, has disclosed reducing its position in BEAM Inc (NYSE:BEAM).
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April 16 - Hedge Funds, News
Globally the entire world thinks the governments have their back in asset markets.
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April 4 - Hedge Funds
Nearly one year ago, Jeffrey Ubben showed up at a New York investment conference with news: His San Francisco-based ValueAct Capital Management hedge fund had taken a $2 billion...
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April 2 - Hedge Funds
Bridgewater Associates -- founded by Ray Dalio, who famously predicted the global financial crisis in 2007 -- is a $150 billion hedge fund with a wide spectrum of institutional...
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March 21 - Hedge Funds
SAC Capital Advisors is turning to data analytics employed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Central Intelligence Agency to keep an eye on its employees.
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March 20 - Hedge Funds