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
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
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
(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 - Comments
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 - 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
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
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
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 - 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
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
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 - Comments
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 - 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
(Bloomberg) -- Bearish hedge fund manager Crispin Odey is making money on his long bets.
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September 24 - 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
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 - 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
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 - 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
(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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
Bruce Berkowitz's Fairholme Capital Management has inched up its position in Sears Canada Inc.
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December 8 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
