EJF Capital, which invests long-only and long/short in both equities and credit across the financial services spectrum, believes it is well-placed to navigate the evolving investment...
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September 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management will open two more offices in Florida as its staff joins a growing southward migration.
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May 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
George Soros is a famous investor who once in 1992 managed to score $1 billion in profits by betting short $10 billions worth of british pounds, an event that made him known as...
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October 23 - Economy, Futures/Forex, Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions, News - Comments
David Tepper, the founder of hedge fund Appaloosa Management, said that he’s short the euro during a talk at the Robin Hood Investors Conference in New York City.
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October 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Paul Singer, the hedge-fund manager entangled in a public fight with Argentina over the country’s defaulted bonds, gained 4.6% in the first half of the year in his Elliott Associates...
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July 8 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Markets are not ready for a change in the message from the Federal Reserves, Jeff Rosenberg, BlackRock's Chief Investment Strategist for Fixed Income said in an interview with...
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June 11 - Macroeconomic Predictions, News - Comments
IntercontinentalExchange Group, Inc. recently declared that the IPO of Euronext, its stock exchange operator, could be valued at up to 1.75 billion Euro, or $2.4 billion.
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June 10 - Futures/Forex, Macroeconomic Predictions, News - Comments
Not bad for a single trade: Baupost Group appears to have made nearly $1 billion on just one of its stock picks.
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June 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire Wilbur Ross, the manager of Invesco Private Capital, is a well-known investor in distressed assets and notorious for restructuring companies and investing in leveraged...
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June 6 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Kenneth Griffin’s Chicago-based hedge fund firm, Citadel, continues to deftly maneuver through the turbulence in global financial markets, which has confounded many multistrategy...
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June 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Marc Faber is a famous Swiss investor and the publisher of the Gloom, Boom & Doom Report newsletter.
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June 4 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The Milwaukee Bucks' new owners were in town Thursday taking a tour of Brew City. Marc Lasry and Wes Edens started their day at Cranky Al's in Wauwatosa.
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May 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD) is considering separating its Lands' End clothing and Sears Auto Center businesses into independently managed operations as part of its...
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October 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related Tickers: BMC Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:BMC), Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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May 6 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.A), American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG), Apple Inc.
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April 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Oaktree Capital Group LLC (NYSE:OAK), Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG), Walter Energy, Inc. (NYSE:WLT), J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
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April 12 - Hedge Funds - Comments
As an asset class, natural resources often get lumped together, falling under a single weighting in one’s investment portfolio.
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December 3 - Market Movers - Comments
BarclayHedge and TrimTabs Investment Research reported today that the hedge fund industry redeemed $4.9 billion (0.3% of assets) in June, compared with inflows of $1.1 billion...
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August 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb has upped his stake in Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) by about 2.5 million shares, according to a regulatory filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission...
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July 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
At Heard & Scene, we're often asked what—and who—may be about to burst on to the scene.
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July 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Swiss fund of hedge funds manager Gottex GFMS.S said it would slash running costs by 15 percent in 2012 after assets fell by some $1 billion (637 million pounds) from a year earlier...
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January 31 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Billionaire Carl Icahn has purchased debt from Philip Falcone’s LightSquared Inc.’s bondholders as the satellite-broadband-service provider struggles to start service, two...
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January 20 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
John Paulson, founder and president of the famous investment firm Paulson & Co, wrote a column in the Financial Times. It was published yesterday afternoon.
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December 15 - The Smart Set - Comments
George Soros has been very focal about the European debt crises, even going so far as to offer advice, like when he told Kathimerini that the Greek debt ought to be restructured...
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October 25 - The Smart Set - Comments
Bunga Bunga Parties! Silvio Berlusconi, Italy's Prime Minister and international class act, must feel like he's on the wrong end of a Bunga Bunga party this morning following ...
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September 20 - News - Comments
Kweku Adoboli, a 31 year old trader, has been arrested over a rogue trading binge that resulted in a $2 Billion loss for his employer, UBS.
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September 15 - News - Comments
Credit Agricole SA (ACA) and Societe Generale SA, France’s second- and third-largest banks, had their long-term credit ratings cut one level by Moody’s Investors Service, ...
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September 14 - News - Comments
Eclectica’s Hugh Hendry is criticizing European Central Bankers for their intention to increase interest rates this year.
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January 26 - News - Comments
