Activist investor Carl Icahn scored a big payday on Monday after shares of tanker car maker American Railcar Industries surged on news that the company will merge with a subsidiary...
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October 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Liberal billionaire Tom Steyer claims to be building a juggernaut political operation in support of impeaching President Trump, rallying the base and creating a "digital army" ...
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October 19 - 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
For new investors, approaching the stock market can be confusing.
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October 17 - 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
Edward Lampert, the hedge-fund manager who controls Sears Holdings Corp., has repeatedly bailed out the struggling retailer with short-term loans. Now, he is cutting the cord.
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October 11 - 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
Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund has a new plan for cutting Sears debt. The main beneficiary would once again be Eddie Lampert’s hedge fund.
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September 27 - 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 billionaire Leon Cooperman is investing in the marijuana industry. He's the biggest name so far to purchase stock directly in a marijuana cultivator.
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August 29 - 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
LONDON (Reuters) - U.S. hedge fund Hudson Bay Capital is opening an office in Britain to expand its European trading book, two sources told Reuters on Tuesday.
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June 5 - 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
The last time we checked in with Joseph Edelman, the founder, chief executive and portfolio manager of Perceptive Advisors and its hedge fund, Perceptive Life Sciences, he was...
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March 30 - 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
The remainder of this cover page shall be filled out for a reporting persons initial filing on this form with respect to the subject class of securities, and for any subsequent...
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November 2 - Hedge Funds
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
(Reuters Breakingviews) - The last chapter for Sears looks to be at hand. The troubled U.S.
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March 22 - Hedge Funds
Some of the names we are going to show on this top 140 biggest and most famous activist hedge funds list are the investors that keep certain executives awake at night and at their...
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February 2 - 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
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass expressed frustration that the U.S.
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October 6 - Hedge Funds
A newly-amended 13D filing with the SEC showed that Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:SHLD) signed a Second Lien Credit Agreement with billionaire Edward Lampert‘s ESL Partners...
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September 6 - Hedge Funds, News
A tragic figure in American literature has an analog in modern finance. Once upon a time, the billionaire investor Edward S. Lampert was hailed as the next Warren E. Buffett.
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August 29 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire hedge fund boss Bill Ackman told CNBC on Friday the past 12 months were the "worst period of performance" of his investment career, and the implosion of Valeant Pharmaceuticals...
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August 26 - 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
Edward Lampert, the manager of ESL Investments, has continued his buying spree of Lands' End, Inc. (NASDAQ:LE).
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August 2 - Hedge Funds, News
Friday's ruling that Herbalife effectively is not a Ponzi scheme adds another layer to an already brutal year for hedge fund titan Bill Ackman.
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July 15 - Hedge Funds
As revealed in a recent 13D filing with the SEC, Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD) signed a loan agreement with Edward Lampert's ESL Partners, L.P.
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April 16 - Hedge Funds, News
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
A recent 13D filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Edward Lampert's ESL Partners owns 50.7% of Sears Hometown and Outlet Stores Inc (NASDAQ:SHOS).
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February 11 - 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
Struggling department store chain Sears Canada Inc reported a smaller first-quarter loss as decline in its same-store sales was the slowest in five quarters.
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May 20 - Hedge Funds
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
Sears Holdings Corp., the retailer run by hedge fund manager Edward Lampert, eliminated about 115 corporate jobs to cut costs after three years of losses.
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January 28 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos on Monday said he is betting against Brazil's national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR) (NYSE:PBR), saying it "exists to serve ...
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October 20 - Hedge Funds
Last Friday morning, billionaire energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens was in a meeting with another politically active hedge fund manager in New York City.
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October 14 - Hedge Funds
Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD) is turning to its chief executive for cash for the second time in three weeks in a sign that its efforts to sell off assets are coming...
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October 2 - Hedge Funds
Edward Lampert's fund, ESL Investments, has disclosed in a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that it has entered into a short term loan agreement with three...
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September 17 - Hedge Funds, News
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