(Reuters) - Starboard Value LP said on Tuesday it plans to raise $300 million through a blank-check acquisition vehicle, becoming the latest major hedge fund to jump on this year...
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August 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Longtime hedge fund manager and activist investor Daniel Loeb, manager of Third Point, continued to bet on e-commerce companies in the second quarter, as well as a few retailers...
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August 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON (Reuters) - Daniel Loeb’s hedge fund Third Point LLC took new positions in technology companies including Alibaba (BABA.N) and Amazon (AMZN.O) and reported strong returns...
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August 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Hedge fund Starboard Value LP is close to having eight directors elected to the board of GCP Applied Technologies Inc (GCP.N) at the chemical company’s annual meeting...
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May 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey, one of Europe’s highest-profile hedge fund managers, said that governments may ban private gold ownership if they lose control of inflation in the wake of the ...
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May 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund manager Jeffrey Gundlach said Monday a popular exchange-traded fund is incredibly overvalued given some of the Federal Reserve’s actions to support the...
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April 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A luxury yacht owned by hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb damaged a pristine reef atoll in Belize near the famous Great Blue Hole, a popular diving site.
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February 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Jamie Dinan, the founder of $17.6 billion York Capital and a co-owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, told attendees of Context Summits in Miami that Japan, a post-Brexit United...
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January 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
During a White House ceremony Wednesday to sign a first-round trade pact with China, President Donald Trump thanked a long list of elected leaders and called out the names of ...
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January 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management returned 33% last year, beating the broader stock market even after slashing its valuation of beleaguered e-cigarette company Juul Labs...
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January 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Credit card and loyalty programs firm Alliance Data Systems Corp (ADS.N) said a board member representing ValueAct Capital has stepped down, removing one conflict ...
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October 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb said on Thursday his hedge fund owns a $700 million stake in Ray-Ban maker EssilorLuxottica SA and is urging the company to...
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October 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Warren Buffett issued a warning about eight years ago: Reinsurance isn’t easy.
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September 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Citadel Limited Partnership sold $500 million in investment-grade bonds earlier this month to fund a dividend to its owners, an unusual move for most hedge funds but the second...
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September 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
When President Trump returns to New York City to speak at the United Nations next week, he will be having a fundraiser at the luxurious Upper East Side townhouse of legendary ...
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September 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An international arbitration panel will hold hearings next month in the United States in a case filed by two New York-based hedge funds against the South...
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September 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb said on Friday that his hedge fund Third Point LLC will vote against the planned merger of United Technologies Corp (UTX.N) ...
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June 28 - 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
Given the huge run-up in cryptocurrencies this year, billionaire investor Mike Novogratz is predicting Bitcoin will soon consolidate to a narrower trading range, but noted that...
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May 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC has built a stake in Centene Corp.
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May 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Things are looking pretty good for activist investor Bill Ackman.
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May 17 - 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
Shares of health care technology provider Cerner (CERN) jumped Tuesday after the company said it had reached an agreement with activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP to appoint...
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April 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Financier Ray Dalio is on a mission to let everyone know that wealth inequality has become so extreme it is driving a dangerous wedge in society.
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April 8 - 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
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
Dallas-based hedge fund Brenham Capital is closing, a casualty of what founder John Labanowski called “some truly bizarre stock action.” Brenham made bets on small and midcap...
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November 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
TOKYO (Reuters) - Alps Electric Co (6770.T) stock jumped 8 percent on Monday after the firm promised a share buyback of about 40 billion yen ($353 million) to win support for ...
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November 26 - 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
Daniel Loeb's hedge fund, Third Point, has trimmed the number of nominees it is making to the Campbell Soup board to five, sources tell CNBC.
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November 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Coatue Management founder Philippe Laffont is battening down the hatches for a tough voyage ahead.
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October 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is hopping on the fintech bandwagon.
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October 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Many young people are deep in debt: Millennials between the ages of 25 and 34 have an average of $42,000 of debt per person and members of Gen Z (ages 16 to 20) already have an...
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October 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Daniel Loeb's Third Point is going after the board of Campbell Soup in a four-minute video aimed at persuading shareholders to take his side in a fight for control.
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October 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Edward Lampert, the hedge-fund manager who controls Sears Holdings Corp., has repeatedly bailed out the struggling retailer with short-term loans. Now, he is cutting the cord.
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October 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey, whose bearish bets led to his hedge fund suffering three successive years of losses, is firmly back on the rise. The Odey European Inc.
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October 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Activist investor Daniel Loeb's hedge fund Third Point filed its definitive proxy on Monday as it continues to push Campbell Soup to consider a sale.
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October 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Appaloosa Management's David Tepper said tax cuts were too steep and likely borrowed economic growth from the future.
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September 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Sir Michael Hintze is hyper-aware of how the policy response to the global financial crisis has shaped the world today.
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September 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management has invested more than $1 billion in Fiat Chrysler Automobiles NV after more than doubling its position in the carmaker since the end...
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September 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Activist investor Daniel Loeb's hedge fund Third Point announced its intention Friday to replace Campbell Soup's entire board, the start of what is likely to be intense proxy ...
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September 7 - 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
ZURICH (Reuters) - Nestle (NESN.S) Chief Executive Mark Schneider said he was convinced the food giant had the right strategy in place to further improve sales and profitability...
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July 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Warren Buffett praised Leon Cooperman’s vow to give away his entire fortune to charity.
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July 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman is returning outside investor capital at year-end.
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July 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Steven Cohen is having a tough time getting U.K. financial regulators to give him a second chance in that country.
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July 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Martin Sorrell has won financial backing from Crispin Odey, an influential London investor, for his new venture after leaving the world’s largest advertising company.
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July 2 - 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
Steve Eisman, the Neuberger Berman Group money manager who famously predicted the collapse of subprime mortgages before the 2008 financial crisis, recommended shorting Deutsche...
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May 14 - 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
