(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
It's official: Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman is moving Pershing Square Capital to a new neighborhood.
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November 2 - Hedge Funds
Famed short-seller Jim Chanos said that the fundamental story for Caterpillar has not changed and that he is still betting against the company. "The collapse has not happened.
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October 19 - Hedge Funds
The vultures were circling Leon Cooperman's biggest positions after the SEC announced at 10:47 a.m.
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September 21 - Hedge Funds
Yum! Brands Inc. (NYSE:YUM) is one of the largest restaurant companies in the world, with more than 41,000 restaurants around the globe.
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September 18 - Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis
Allergan plc (NYSE:AGN), formerly known as Actavis, is a pharmaceutical company formed and shaped by at least five major M&A deals since 2012.
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September 12 - Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis
Dan Loeb, the founder of Third Point, is a pioneer activist investor, whose flagship fund performed impressively in 2010, returning 41.7%.
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August 26 - Hedge Funds, News
At first glance, Phillips 66 appears undervalued.
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August 14 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis
In April, a hedge fund firm in Chicago snagged arguably the most sought after economic mind in the world: Ben Bernanke.
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May 15 - Hedge Funds
Warren Buffett had plenty of admirers Saturday at the annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska.
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May 7 - Hedge Funds
Ariad Pharmaceuticals founder and CEO Harvey Berger is exiting the struggling cancer drug company in a settlement with Sarissa Capital, the activist hedge fund led by Alex Denner...
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April 29 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire John Paulson’s merger strategy has gained 10 percent this year, lifted by consolidation among drugmakers.
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April 9 - Hedge Funds
Investment firm Tiger Global Management, one of the hedge fund industry's most closely watched players, told clients that its hedge fund lost 5.3 percent during the first quarter...
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April 8 - Hedge Funds
Ray Dalio has been called “Wall Street’s Oddest Duck” for his highly unusual approach to management, but no one has ever questioned his brilliance.
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November 13 - Hedge Funds
Billionaie hedge fund manager Steve Cohen is the secret buyer of the Alberto Giacometti sculpture “Chariot,” sold last week at Sothebys (NYSE:BID) for a near-record $100,...
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November 11 - Hedge Funds
Just in time for the mid-term elections, billionaire philanthropist and retired hedge fund founder Tom Steyer has donated an extra $15 million of his own money in to his super...
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October 27 - Hedge Funds
Greg Orman is still being coy about his partisan allegiances, but more high-dollar Democratic donors are lining up behind his independent U.S. Senate run in Kansas.
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October 23 - Hedge Funds
Thomas Sandell's New York-based firm Sandell Asset Management has officially launched its new activist hedge fund.
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September 29 - Hedge Funds
New York hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb has raised a $2.5 billion war chest to spend on several new activist situations, potentially by the end of the year, according to people...
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September 11 - Hedge Funds
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to hold off on its decision about former hedge-fund kingpin Steve Cohen for three more months...
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August 27 - Hedge Funds
The hedge fund billionaire Louis M.
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August 14 - Hedge Funds
It wouldn't be wrong to say that when Daniel Loeb buys a stake in a company, he is actually 'pointing a gun' towards the company's management.
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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
Investors have pulled more than $1 billion from Eric Mindich's Eton Park Fund, managed by his New York-based multistrategy hedge fund firm Eton Park Capital Management, since ...
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July 18 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire investor Daniel Loeb's main hedge fund returned 6 percent during the first six months of 2014, beating many rival managers' largely lackluster returns but trailing...
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July 2 - Hedge Funds
Known for his saying that “the first billion is the hardest,” oil billionaire T.
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June 12 - Hedge Funds
Relational Investors LLC , the activist fund co-founded by Ralph Whitworth and David Batchelder, nominated two directors at B/E Aerospace Inc (NASDAQ:BEAV) before the aviation...
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June 6 - 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
Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper sounded a cautious message on Wednesday, telling a ballroom packed with other managers and investors that he was "nervous" about the...
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May 15 - 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
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
Activist investor William Ackman's Pershing Square Capital Management roared ahead in April with the help of a proposed acquisition, leaving his flagship fund up roughly 19 percent...
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May 2 - Hedge Funds
Aboard his Gulfstream G550, T.
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March 31 - 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
Richard Handler’s Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE:LUK) more than doubled its bet on Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Group Inc. after the value of an earlier investment jumped.
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March 19 - Hedge Funds
Dmitry Balyasny is one hedge fund owner who isn’t afraid of hiring traders from SAC Capital Advisors as long as they were far away from the “messiness” that engulfed the...
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February 27 - Hedge Funds
Why aren’t there more women running hedge funds? The money’s good, and the lifestyle would seem to lend itself better to balancing family demands than more traditional Wall...
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February 12 - Hedge Funds
Hedge funds held up better than stocks in January, falling an average of 0.1 percent as global equities slumped amid a selloff in emerging-market currencies and signs of weakness...
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February 7 - Hedge Funds
The stock market’s decline this year is healthy and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index probably will end 2014 higher, Leon Cooperman, chairman of hedge fund Omega Advisors Inc...
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February 5 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire hedge fund investor Daniel Loeb will be losing Rhode Island as a client after the state's pension fund found his Third Point LLC too risky for its taste and decided...
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February 3 - Hedge Funds
In this article we look into four companies that are in Warren Buffett's portfolio and have witnessed insider purchases over the past three months.
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January 29 - Hedge Funds
David Tepper's Appaloosa Management is one of the top performing large hedge funds on Wall Street, but he likely took a beating on Friday, according to John Hempton, an Australian...
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January 28 - Hedge Funds
Warren Buffett is proving to have as keen an eye for talent as he has for investment opportunity.
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January 22 - Hedge Funds
Hedge-fund manager Paul Singer turned in another steady year of performance in 2013, according to a monthly investor update. Mr.
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January 8 - Hedge Funds
Daniel Loeb, the activist investor and hedge fund manager, led rivals in 2013 as his flagship fund gained 25.2%, Reuters reported.
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January 3 - Hedge Funds
Hedge Fund manager John Paulson is one of the biggest beneficiaries of a great rotation from bonds to stocks at the firm led by Anthony "the Mooch" Scaramucci.
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January 2 - Hedge Funds
Stan Druckenmiller looks across the table at Charlie Rose, bemused.
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December 5 - Hedge Funds
The board of directors at Hologic, Inc.
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November 25 - Hedge Funds
