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
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
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
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
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
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
(Reuters) - Two major shareholder advisory firms urged investors to vote against billionaire investor David Tepper’s hedge fund demand that Allergan Plc immediately split the...
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April 15 - 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
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
BOSTON (Reuters) - Firefly Value Partners said on Thursday that it wants Gulfport Energy Corp.
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
A bankruptcy judge approved Sears Holdings Corp.’s sale of notes to Cyrus Capital Partners even as he called the outcome “odd,” ending a chapter in the hedge fund’s efforts...
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January 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Back in November, billionaire Steve Cohen predicted a bear market was approaching.
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December 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
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
Billionaire Steve Cohen sees the U.S.
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November 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
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
The stock market has basically topped out and won't deliver the eye-popping returns that investors have become accustomed to in recent years, hedge fund manager David Gerstenhaber...
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October 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
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
Stanley Druckenmiller has just about had it with historically low interest rates.
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September 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Bloomberg) -- Bearish hedge fund manager Crispin Odey is making money on his long bets.
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September 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
The recovery in the oil industry is attracting some of the most recognized billionaires in money management.
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August 15 - 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
Billionaire George Soros, who warned of a looming financial crisis and an existential threat to the European Union on Tuesday, is shorting stocks from Stockholm to London.
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May 29 - 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
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
(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
Sears Canada creditors are calling out Eddie Lampert, the erstwhile controlling shareholder of the bankrupt retailer and the current chief executive of Sears Holdings, for receiving...
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February 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:SHLD) announced on October 16 that its second-largest investor Bruce R.
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October 24 - Activism, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire hedge fund manager Marc Lasry shared his market views in an exclusive interview with CNBC's Scott Wapner on Wednesday.
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January 4 - Hedge Funds
Sears Holdings said Thursday that it would accept $300 million in debt financing from Edward Lampert’s hedge fund, the latest instance of the company’s chief pumping money...
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August 25 - Hedge Funds
Hedge funds are alternative investment vehicles available only to high-net-worth individuals, so most retail investors cannot afford the luxury of investing in a hedge fund.
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April 12 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
The hedge fund investors monitored by the Insider Monkey team have now filed their quarterly 13Fs, data which we continue to sift through to reveal high-potential stocks.
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November 19 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
ESL Investments is a value-focused hedge fund manager founded by Edward S. Lampert in 1988.
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August 19 - Hedge Funds, News
Edward Lampert’s ESL Investments enjoyed a strong first quarter of 2015, with our weighted returns methodology predicting 6% returns based on its five qualifying long positions...
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April 7 - Hedge Funds, News
Bruce Berkowitz's Fairholme Capital Management has inched up its position in Sears Canada Inc.
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December 8 - Hedge Funds, News
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
Louis Bacon’s $15 billion (£9.3 billion) hedge fund Moore Capital boosted profits in its Mayfair office last year despite the loss of star fund manager Greg Coffey.
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October 8 - Hedge Funds
Fairholme (Fairx), led by Bruce Berkowitz, has disclosed in a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission that its affiliate St.
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September 19 - Hedge Funds, News
Investing icon Warren Buffett made a bet about the relative performances of hedge funds and index funds, that the latter would beat the former over a decade.
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September 18 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund ESL Investments has loaned $400 million to its largest investment, Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD), a cash infusion that will keep the struggling retailer ...
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September 16 - Hedge Funds
Slowly but steadily Edward Lampert is getting rid of his massive stake in AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE:AN).
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September 9 - Hedge Funds, News
ESL Investments was founded by Edward Lampert in 1988 and since its inception the fund has managed an average annual return of 29%.
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August 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Edward Lampert and his fund, ESL Investments, have further decreased their exposure to AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE:AN).
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July 25 - Hedge Funds, News
The Fed is out of step with Wall Street, say some of the country’s wealthiest investors.
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July 16 - Hedge Funds
ESL Investments, managed by Edward Lampert, has reduced its exposure to AutoNation Inc. (NYSE:AN), a new filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission showed.
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June 10 - Hedge Funds, News
Edward S. Lampert of ESL Investments has reported acquiring around 173,600 shares of Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc (NASDAQ:SHOS).
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April 21 - Hedge Funds, News
