Proxy advisory firm Institutional Investor Services urged Alkermes (ALKS.O) shareholders to elect one of three director candidates proposed by activist hedge fund Sarissa Capital...
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June 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The US billionaire’s firm and Irish investment house Cardinal have signed a joint venture which aims to raise €400m for property investments.
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June 11 - Hedge Funds
From Asian Internet stocks, which have boomed over the last year, to food and paper products companies, prominent hedge fund investors listed their favorite stocks on Thursday...
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May 16 - Hedge Funds
David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital posted a strong 4.7 percent gain in November, putting it up 19.1 percent for the year with just one month to go.
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December 2 - Hedge Funds
As you search the internet for hedge fund websites, you won’t be surprised to find that there are many worth bookmarking.
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October 16 - Hedge Funds, Lists
Since no two hedge fund jobs are the same, it goes without saying that your approach to applying for a position is not going to be identical to the next person.
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October 3 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Vale SA (ADR) (NYSE:VALE), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Expedia Inc (NASDAQ:EXPE), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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August 29 - Hedge Funds
If you invested $1 million in David Tepper’s hedge fund 20 years ago, how much would you be worth today? How about $149 million? That’s what Appaloosa Management, the hedge...
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August 6 - Hedge Funds
The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected an $18 million settlement that would have banned billionaire hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone from the securities industry...
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July 22 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: DISH Network Corp.
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June 27 - Hedge Funds
Five U.S. gun control groups have received almost $7 million combined from liberal billionaire George Soros, including the most prominent one, the Brady Campaign.
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April 24 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Credit Suisse Group AG (NYSE:CS), The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX), J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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April 23 - Hedge Funds
The European Union could be destroyed by the "nightmare" euro crisis, and Germany needs to take the responsibility to save the common currency, billionaire fund manager George...
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October 16 - Hedge Funds
John Taylor, founder and CEO of the world's largest currency hedge fund FX Concepts, told Bloomberg Television he'll "probably always be a bear on the euro" and that "it is hard...
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September 27 - Hedge Funds
Activist hedge fund Starboard Value is expected to disclose on Monday that it has taken a 13.3 percent stake in Office Depot Inc, making it the biggest shareholder of the office...
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September 17 - Hedge Funds
Central bankers are “counterfeit money printers” and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should resign for messing up the U.S.
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September 14 - Hedge Funds
Troubled broker and former chief executive of bankrupt brokerage firm MF Global Jon Corzine is not likely to start his own hedge fund.
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September 13 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros made some bold statements in an interview with the Financial Times, saing that Germany must either lead the Eurozone out of...
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September 10 - Hedge Funds
Maverick Capital Ltd.'s Steve Galbraith, who left a top investment-strategist post at Morgan Stanley MS +3.64% for the hedge fund eight years ago, plans to leave the firm as soon...
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September 7 - Hedge Funds
According to a 13G just filled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Steven Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital LLC has now owns 8,645,289 shares of Verisign, Inc.
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August 28 - Hedge Funds
A New York hedge fund that owns bonds of bankrupt Eastman Kodak has asked the US Trustee to probe the company's patent auction because it was concerned about the "unusually secretive...
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August 21 - Hedge Funds
Carl Icahn is pushing a split at truck maker Oshkosh Corp., urging it to spin a unit he’s called a mistake in the past because its value is being obscured.
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August 10 - Hedge Funds
When a top hedge fund manager donated money to start a student-run portfolio at the University of Virginia in 1994, Richard Gerson was one of the few undergraduates to earn a ...
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July 31 - Hedge Funds
Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays, resigned on Monday, less than a week after the big British bank agreed to pay $450 million to settle accusations that it had tried to manipulate...
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July 2 - Hedge Funds
New York hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon announced his intentions Friday to donate 90,000 acres of land in Colorado toward the creation of the Sangre de Cristo Conservation...
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June 18 - Hedge Funds
Celebrity financier Arpad Busson has been mulling a sale of EIM, the hedge fund investor he founded in the 1990s, for several months but buyers with pockets as big as the firm...
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June 7 - Hedge Funds
Move over, John Arnold: the U.S. natural gas market has a new hedge-fund king, operating as skillfully and mysteriously as the ex-Enron wunderkind who once wowed the trade.
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January 11 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Hedge fund legend John Paulson apologized to investors for what he is calling a year that has been “the worst in the firm’s 17 year history.” “We are disappointed and...
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November 30 - Hedge Funds
