Daniel Och is ceding some of the chips in his hedge-fund empire as he hands over the reigns to the next generation of leaders.
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December 6 - 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
Tom Steyer, the California billionaire best known for his campaign to impeach President Trump, is making a move toward a potential 2020 White House bid, launching town halls in...
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November 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
One of Sears Holdings Corp.’s largest creditors is offering a settlement to dissuade the bankrupt retailer from launching an unusual bidding war that could upend a credit-derivative...
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November 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ken Griffin is chipping in $10 million to open new middle schools in Brooklyn and Queens.
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November 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Private equity firm Veritas Capital and hedge fund Elliott Management are buying Athenahealth Inc (ATHN.O) for about $5.7 billion, the U.S.
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November 12 - 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
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. is hopping on the fintech bandwagon.
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October 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(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
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
Starbucks shares jumped by as much as 5% Tuesday on news that the hedge-fund billionaire Bill Ackman had bought a stake in the coffee retailer.
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October 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
On Monday, Sept. 18, The New York Post reported that Elliott Management, Paul Singer's hedge fund, is backing away from its $160-per-share bid for Athenahealth (ATHN).
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September 18 - 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
Think about this when you hear the term “wealth gap”: A 2015 St.
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August 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Warren Buffett’s company is taking a small stake in digital-payments firm Paytm.
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August 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Hedge fund Starboard Value LP has nominated five directors to Symantec’s (SYMC.O) board after taking a 5.8 percent stake in the cybersecurity firm, it said on Thursday...
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August 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Another piece of gritty New York City is giving way to the appetites of Wall Street.
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August 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
David Einhorn's hedge fund Greenlight Capital said the firm's bet against Tesla shares "was our second biggest loser" in the most recent quarter.
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August 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The Viral Fever (TVF), an over-the-top (OTT) platform which creates original video content, has raised an additional $6 million (around Rs 41 crore at current exchange rates) ...
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July 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn is in a rut.
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July 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
SEOUL (Reuters) - New York-based hedge fund Mason Capital Management has filed a legal claim seeking at least $175 million from the South Korean government as compensation for...
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July 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Lauren Bonner says quitting wasn't an option.
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June 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
Carl Icahn is inching his way out of his Herbalife position.
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May 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
President Donald Trump's decision Thursday to cancel the Singapore summit with North Korea leader sent the price of gold higher as global investors sought safety.
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May 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist investor Keith Meister on Monday reunited with billionaire investor Carl Icahn and said in a regulatory filing that they may try to buy oil and gas...
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May 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
David Einhorn, the one-time hedge-fund wunderkind, likes to remind his headstrong young analysts that he has been around a lot longer than they have.
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May 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is no stranger to success - he's the founder of the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, which manages roughly $160 billion in assets...
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May 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Wall Street's activist investors, once known for pushing for extreme cost-cutting or just about anything that would boost the bottom line, are starting to use their money to promote...
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April 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Consumer products maker Newell Brands Inc (NWL.N) has agreed to add three independent directors to its board, including one proposed by hedge fund Starboard Value ...
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April 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
George Soros called cryptocurrencies a bubble in January. Now his $26 billion family office is planning to trade digital assets.
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April 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
SEOUL/NEW YORK (Reuters) - A unit of U.S.
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April 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Commvault, a provider of backup and recovery software, will soon find itself in a proxy battle with Elliott Management.
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April 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Douglas Haynes, president of Point72, resigned on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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March 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Och-Ziff Capital Management Group LLC is shutting its European hedge fund as the firm refocuses on its main products under the new leadership of Robert Shafir, according to people...
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March 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
HOUSTON (Reuters) - Elliott Management pulled back from efforts to call for substantial changes at oil company Hess Corp on Thursday on the eve of the deadline to nominate directors...
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March 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Smart investors actively track the moves made by the titans of the hedge fund world, such as billionaire activist investor Paul Singer of Elliott Management.
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March 6 - Activism, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Call John Paulson the Piano Man.
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February 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Is oil a good bet for 2018? Hedge funds seem to think so according to a recent report by Bloomberg. They are betting heavily on a continued uptrend in oil prices.
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February 2 - Hedge Funds, News
The torch is passed as the old hedge fund guard is losing its touch in the current market.
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January 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital bought Twitter shares, according to an investor letter sent to clients on Tuesday.
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The renowned investor William H.
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January 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Omega Advisors, the firm whose billionaire founder Leon Cooperman reached an insider-trading settlement with U.S.
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January 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
If the filing person has previously filed a statement on Schedule 13G to report the acquisition which is the subject of this Schedule 13D, and is filing this schedule because ...
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July 3 - Hedge Funds
Paul Singer's Elliott Advisors, one of the most contentious hedge funds in the world, is gearing up for another bitter activist battle.
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May 9 - Activism, Hedge Funds, News