One is a classical pianist. Another is a former minor league baseball player. Two others are sons of iconic Wall Streeters.
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April 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
LONDON, Feb 21 (Reuters) - Hedge fund firm DG Partners has hired Richard Blake, previously head of business for trader Greg Coffey’s Kirkoswald Asset Management, to lead a new...
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February 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire Ken Fisher made his name and fortune picking stocks.
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November 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
James Dondero doesn’t back down. That’s what helped him build Highland Capital Management into a credit giant that at one point oversaw $40 billion.
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October 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Boaz Weinstein’s hedge fund Saba Capital Management LP faced a setback in its wrangle with Neuberger Berman Group LLC for more power over its investment in one of Neuberger’...
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October 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Ray Dalio, the billionaire founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, said there’s about a 25% chance of a U.S.
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September 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, urged investors to have bets on “both horses in the race” amid rising trade tensions between...
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August 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Former Sears Chairman and CEO Eddie Lampert delivered a letter Thursday to presidential candidate Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Rep.
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June 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
David Einhorn’s recovery this year, spurred partly by his big bet on General Motors Co., has been jolted by President Donald Trump’s threat of a trade war with Mexico.
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May 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Bain Capital, the 35-year-old private equity firm known for takeovers of companies like Varsity Brands and the now bankrupt Toys R Us, is raising $1 billion for a new technology...
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May 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge fund manager David Tepper is planning on returning Appaloosa Management’s capital to investors and converting it to a family office.
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May 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Opinionated? Sure. Outspoken? You bet.
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April 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Sears Holdings Corp. sued Eddie Lampert, his hedge fund ESL Investments Inc. and others associated with the fund and Sears—U.S.
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April 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
At a money-manager conference in New York earlier this week, Ackman acknowledged a string of missteps in recent years that saw his main hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management...
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April 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Sears on Thursday lodged a lawsuit against its former CEO, Eddie Lampert, and a string its high-profile past board members, including his former Yale roommate Treasury Secretary...
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April 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Shares of Cerner are up 20% this year but the medical records company can still rise much further as it is still cheap, activist investor Jeff Smith said Tuesday.
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April 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
For a company owner, a clean sale is usually preferable to the rigmarole of going public.
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March 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Activist investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Holdings is off to a strong start in 2019 thanks to some key new stakes and outperformance of prior investments.
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February 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
(Reuters) - U.S. hedge fund Hound Partners disclosed a 5.05 percent stake in British lender Metro Bank Plc, a filing showed on Friday.
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February 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman Eddie Lampert won the support of the U.S.
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February 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Eddie Lampert, welcome to the 2020 campaign.
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January 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
(Reuters) - Trian Fund Management LP will not challenge PPG Industries Inc’s (PPG.N) board of directors at its 2019 shareholder meeting after the U.S.
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January 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
BOSTON (Reuters) - Firefly Value Partners said on Thursday that it wants Gulfport Energy Corp.
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Jan 16 (Reuters) - SQN Investors LP said on Wednesday Yelp Inc’s shares could surge anywhere between $55 and $65, about 50-80 percent higher than its current price, if it implements...
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January 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund Cruiser Capital said it plans to press on with its proxy fight at Ashland Global Holdings even after the specialty chemicals business struck a deal...
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January 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Jeffrey Vinik, who just announced the revival of his hedge fund after a stellar career of stock picking, doesn’t see any opportunity in cannabis stocks.
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January 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Shopping center owners usually dread the prospect of a big retail operator shutting its doors. In the case of Sears Holding Corp., many landlords are welcoming it.
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January 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Activist hedge fund Third Point lost about 11% last year, according to a document and people familiar with the matter.
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January 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Back in November, billionaire Steve Cohen predicted a bear market was approaching.
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December 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Sears, the 125-year-old icon, has 24 hours to survive. The employer of more than 68,000 filed for bankruptcy in October.
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December 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Much has changed in retail over the past 16 years. Amazon has risen and towering giants like Toys R Us have fallen.
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December 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire Steve Cohen sees the U.S.
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November 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
(Bloomberg) -- Crispin Odey, fighting to recover from three successive years of losses in his main hedge fund, made money last month as his long-running bearish bets paid off.
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November 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
(Reuters) - Two Sears Holdings Corp SHLDQ.PK board directors have hired investment bank Evercore Inc (EVR.N) to scrutinize deals that were led by former Sears Chief Executive ...
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October 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer claims to be building a juggernaut political operation in support of impeaching President Trump, rallying the base and creating a "digital army" ...
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October 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
Stanley Druckenmiller has just about had it with historically low interest rates.
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September 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund has a new plan for cutting Sears debt. The main beneficiary would once again be Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund.
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September 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge fund billionaire Leon Cooperman is investing in the marijuana industry. He's the biggest name so far to purchase stock directly in a marijuana cultivator.
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August 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge-fund manager Crispin Odey said underperforming banks are starting to resemble department stores that failed to reinvent themselves quickly enough to compete with online ...
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August 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. hedge fund Hudson Bay Capital is opening an office in Britain to expand its European trading book, two sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
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June 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
BOSTON, June 1 (Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Jana Partners told clients that its Jana Partners fund gained 3.1 percent last month, lifting performance to 2.8 percent for the...
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June 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
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 - Comments
In wanting to sell Sears’ assets to his investment vehicle ESL, chief executive Eddie Lampert is tacitly admitting his tenure has been a failure.
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May 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments