Given that many good companies lost between a quarter and half of their value amid the outbreak of the coronavirus pandemic in March, and their debt may now yield many multiples...
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April 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
In an extended series of articles beginning in the fall of 2019 published here on Valuewalk and on www.cornell-capital.com, I reiterated the theme that it was a very difficult...
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March 22 - News, Stock Analysis
(Reuters) - Activist investor Elliott Management said on Friday it supports SoftBank Group Corp’s (9984.T) latest move to buy back up to $4.8 billion of its shares.
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March 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Coronavirus is probably the #1 concern in investors' minds right now. It should be.
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March 4 - Hedge Funds, News
Buffett’s big idea for better M&A advice: Berkshire Hathaway hasn’t done a big deal in years, as Warren Buffett explains in his latest annual letter to shareholders.
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February 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
As WWE’s stock begins to stabilize amid a steady decline that burned several investors, who once upon a time saw its share price skyrocket to $100, top investor Stephen Mandel...
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February 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ray Dalio says he doesn’t know much when it comes to pandemics.
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January 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Elm Ridge Management is clinging to life, with Duke University now its only major investor.
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January 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Pierre Andurand, one of the oil market’s last remaining hedge fund managers, posted his second consecutive annual loss with a 7.1% decline in 2019, according to people familiar...
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January 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire investor Paul Tudor Jones said the stock market today is reminiscent of the latter stages of the bull market in 1999 that saw a giant surge that ultimately ended with...
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January 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The legendary investor Warren Buffett thinks that companies shouldn't assign their investors' cash to social causes and should instead focus on what would most benefit the shareholders...
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January 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
I revisited some of the annual letters Warren Buffett wrote when he was a fund manager some 50 years ago. Buffett's teachings then are still relevant today.
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December 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Andy Redleaf founded a $6 billion hedge fund. Now he runs a small community bank. In many ways, Andy Redleaf was a quintessential hedge fund manager.
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December 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Billionaire Tom Steyer is trying to turn his biggest weaknesses into strengths in the Democratic presidential contest, saying his past experience managing a ...
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December 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
ExodusPoint Capital Management, which launched last year with a record $8 billion in assets, is setting out to collect billions more.
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November 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Alan Howard, whose Brevan Howard Asset Management once managed $40 billion, is stepping down as chief executive of the firm he founded and has been struggling to revive.
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October 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire Steve Cohen led losses among his biggest multistrategy hedge fund peers last month as sweeping market shifts blindsided investment managers.
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October 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, founder of Hayman Capital Management, said a “substantial” U.S.-China trade agreement is unlikely at this stage. The U.S.
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October 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
These are uneasy times for hedge fund billionaire Glenn Dubin.
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October 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Warren Buffett issued a warning about eight years ago: Reinsurance isn’t easy.
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September 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - An international arbitration panel will hold hearings next month in the United States in a case filed by two New York-based hedge funds against the South...
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September 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey, whose main fund has seen excruciating losses and spectacular gains, is opening up his firm’s best performing money pool to external investors.
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September 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Magnates and friends of T. Boone Pickens remembered him fondly in comments to CNBC following his passing. Pickens died Wednesday of natural causes at age 91.
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September 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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
Berkshire Hathaway chairman and CEO Warren Buffett turned 89 on Friday, but the best birthday present he ever received came long ago, before he made his first penny — before...
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August 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller said he bought General Electric shares on Thursday during the stock’s double-digit plunge brought about by a report from Madoff whistleblower...
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August 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, urged investors to have bets on “both horses in the race” amid rising trade tensions between...
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August 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
MILAN (Reuters) - Italian bio-plastics company Bio-on denied allegations of accounting irregularities by U.S.
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July 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON (Reuters) - Balyasny Asset Management, a Chicago-based hedge fund that shed $4 billion in assets last year and cut 20% of its staff, was back in positive territory for ...
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July 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund investor Stanley Druckenmiller warned that if one of the “crazy” Democrat presidential candidates beats President Donald Trump in 2020, the stock market...
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June 4 - 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
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn said he expects to make a profit off his short on Tesla Inc.
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May 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn discussed two positions his firm has taken, both relating to leasing in the transportation industry.
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May 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Glenview Capital Management lost about $2 billion in assets in less than a year as investors fled a fund that began charging fees after it was initially free.
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May 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ray Dalio, the founder of the biggest hedge fund in the world, was the highest-paid hedge-fund manager in the world last year.
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April 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Galaxy Digital Holdings, the crypto merchant bank founded by former hedge fund manager Michael Novogratz, lost $97 million in the fourth quarter, according to financials disclosed...
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April 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Berkshire Hathaway is not buying PG&E, Warren Buffett told CNBC’s Becky Quick.
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April 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Sears Holdings Corp. sued Eddie Lampert, his hedge fund ESL Investments Inc. and others associated with the fund and Sears—U.S.
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April 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire investor Warren Buffett is once again wading into the topic of politics.
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April 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Citadel LLC, a hedge fund founded by billionaire investor Ken Griffin, recently lost Barrett Eynon, a portfolio manager focused on investing in distressed debt, as well as a few...
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April 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
If you are reading these lines chances are you are either very well familiar or you have at least heard of the legendary investor - Warren Buffet, and his fund Berkshire Hathaway...
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April 3 - Hedge Fund Investor Letters, Hedge Funds, News
Warren Buffett is possibly the financial world's most vocal critic of hedge funds.
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March 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
On February 22, Kraft Heinz Co (NASDAQ: KHC) shocked investors with a trifecta of bad news in its earnings report: sub-par operating results, a mention of accounting irregularities...
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March 1 - Hedge Funds, News, Stock Analysis
LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds added more bullish positions in crude and fuels in the most recent week in the expectation that positive trade talks between the United States and...
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February 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bank of America Merrill Lynch's top equity derivatives boss in the Americas is leaving after less than two years, and he's headed for the hedge fund LMR Partners.
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February 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
In the hedge fund industry, much of the attention is given to big names such as David Einhorn and Bill Ackman, but some smaller, lesser-known fund managers have been better at...
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February 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Every eruption of market turmoil since the crisis has also yielded a signature deal that benefits from a return to sanity.
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February 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Bloomberg) -- Philippe Jabre is returning money to investors after an “especially challenging” year, adding to the swelling list of hedge-fund veterans giving up on an industry...
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December 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Berkshire Hathaway, the holding company of billionaire investing legend Warren Buffett, owns a very small selection of very large positions.
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December 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading, News
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