PARIS, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman on Tuesday bought 7.1% of Universal Music Group from French conglomerate Vivendi (VIV.PA) and pledged to...
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August 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
Billionaire investor David Einhorn predicted inflation is here to stay, and explained why rising prices will benefit his stock portfolio, in his second-quarter letter to investors...
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July 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The life sciences specialist’s hedge fund is down significantly this year — and its recently merged SPAC is also underwater.
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July 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said Monday that the spread of the delta variant doesn’t pose a significant threat to the economic reopening, and he sees interest rates rising...
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July 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman has likely made over $200 million on Domino's Pizza stock in the past 14 weeks.
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July 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
LONDON, June 24 (Reuters Breakingviews) - Bill Ackman’s online acolytes are unfazed by the dwindling premium attached to the billionaire's Pershing Square Tontine Holdings (...
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June 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Former Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers and billionaire investor Ray Dalio said the U.S.
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June 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund legend David Tepper thinks the Federal Reserve did a good job, showing that policymakers are not asleep at the wheel.
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June 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones said Monday that the high stock-market valuation makes him uneasy and warned the Federal Reserve could be adding to financial instability...
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June 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Investment firm Mudrick Capital has exited both its debt and equity positions in AMC Entertainment, sources tell CNBC’s David Faber, as the movie theater chain’s stock continues...
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June 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The Chinese yuan will become a global reserve currency sooner than most people expect, said billionaire investor Ray Dalio. The U.S.
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May 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has been a hard-charging shareholder activist for decades.
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May 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Mike Novogratz, once a partner at Goldman Sachs who went on to be a hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group, has found his biggest financial success in cryptocurrency.
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May 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Energy-focused hedge fund Westbeck Capital has bagged its sixth consecutive monthly gain, as it “aggressively” tapped into buying opportunities during last month’s steep...
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May 12 - 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
Ken Griffin’s Citadel expects to have most of its U.S.
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May 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
York Capital Management (York), a global private investment firm, and Kennedy Lewis Investment Management (Kennedy Lewis), an opportunistic credit manager, have formed a strategic...
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April 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bridgewater Associates (Bridgewater), a global leader in institutional portfolio management and the largest hedge fund in the world, has launched a new sustainable investing venture...
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April 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investor Legion Partners Asset Management LLC has nominated seven directors to sit on specialty retailer Genesco Inc’s eight-person board, according...
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April 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
The vehicle, which will be structured like a hedge fund, has an initial target of $500 million.
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March 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Credito Valtellinese SpA shareholders with at least 20% of the bank are rejecting a takeover bid from Credit Agricole SA, throwing doubt on the lender’s claims that it can win...
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March 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said Monday he donated his entire stake in Coupang - worth more than $1 billion - to charity following the South Korean e-commerce company’s...
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March 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
British prosecutors pursuing an indecent-assault case against Crispin Odey wavered before ultimately deciding to charge the hedge fund chief.
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March 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Wednesday he believes rich people would find ways to avoid paying Sen. Elizabeth Warren’s wealth tax if it were to become law.
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March 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Exxon Mobil announced two board seat changes Monday, including activist investor and ESG proponent Jeff Ubben, in a sign that the company is confronting its uncertain future as...
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March 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
CQS is shutting one of its best-performing strategies because the fund’s chief investment officer is leaving to join Citadel, adding to a string of departures from Michael Hintze...
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February 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey’s long decline is exposing a new risk for the investors who are left: as his troubled money pool gets smaller, a larger slice is in hard-to-sell holdings.
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February 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ken Griffin, the billionaire CEO of hedge fund Citadel, defended his $2 billion investment in short seller Gabe Plotkin’s Melvin Capital last month amid the height of the GameStop...
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February 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A historic economic comeback is sending some of the world’s biggest investors bargain hunting in the unloved energy sector.
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February 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
(Reuters) - Sachem Head Capital Management LP has amassed a roughly $1 billion stake in International Flavors & Fragrances Inc and nominated four directors to the chemical company...
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February 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A Marshall Wace hedge fund that bets on rising and falling stocks slumped to a record loss in January, as the U.S.
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February 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Asking clients to take their billions away has worked wonders for Michael Platt.
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January 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire Seth Klarman's Baupost Returned less than 5% in 2020, Failing to Break Double-Digits Returns in What's been Called the Best Year for Hedge Funds Since 2009 (Business...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey’s flagship hedge fund lost money again in 2020, deepening the gloom for the bearish manager as he tries to revive his shrinking firm and fights an indecent assault...
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January 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman appears to have scored one of his best years ever in 2020 despite a volatile market rocked by a global pandemic, an economic recession and a presidential...
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January 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
As the miserable year of 2020 has almost reached its end, it is time to return to the offices of Hindsight Capital LLC.
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December 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bill Ackman is ending a second blockbuster year in a row, but investors still aren’t won over, as Ackman’s large overseas closed-end fund, Pershing Square Holdings continues...
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December 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
New York (CNN Business) Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of the world's largest hedge fund, is deeply worried about a divided and profoundly unequal America as President-elect...
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December 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bridgewater Associates, the world’s biggest hedge fund, is starting a strategy tied to global sustainability goals, the latest money manager to tap into surging demand for socially...
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December 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge funds including Segantii Capital Management are set to make some fast returns after Lone Star made a rare concession in a contentious U.K. takeover tussle.
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December 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
(Reuters) - Jim Chanos, who has been short on Tesla Inc’s stock for five years, has reduced his bet against the electric carmaker, the short-seller told Bloomberg News on Thursday...
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December 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Galaxy Digital founder Michael Novogratz, who in February correctly predicted bitcoin would set new highs in 2020, on Tuesday broke down how he sees the cryptocurrency trade playing...
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December 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
LONDON (Reuters) - Activist investor Gianluca Ferrari, who has led campaigns against a string of mid-cap firms, is setting up a fund targeting companies lagging on environmental...
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November 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Alex Sacerdote’s Whale Rock Capital Management shuffled its deck of tech stocks during the third quarter, dumping one of its largest holdings and adding a stake in a top e-commerce...
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November 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading