Ackman Avoids Limelight Even as Pershing Square Posts Record 2019 (Reuters) BOSTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) – Two years ago, investor William Ackman, who......
(read more)January 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Even ‘Nice’ Activist Hedge Funds Aren’t Miracle Workers (Bloomberg) Say what you like about outspoken activist hedge fund investors such as......
(read more)December 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Leon Cooperman Says the Stock Market Would Drop 25% if Elizabeth Warren is Elected (CNBC) Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman took aim on Wednesday at......
(read more)October 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge Funds and Bad Tactics Kill $4.4 Billion Deal (Bloomberg) The heated auction between buyout firm Bain Capital and Austria’s AMS AG for the German......
(read more)October 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
US Activist Investors’ Aggressive Strategies are Starting to Force Change in Europe (CNBC) A recent example of activist success in Europe came on Monday......
(read more)July 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
RenTech Has Been Pulling Money Out of Deutsche Bank for Months (Bloomberg) Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund giant that Deutsche Bank AG has counted......
(read more)July 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Bain Capital is Raising a $1 billion Tech Fund for Buyouts and Late-stage Investments (CNBC) Bain Capital, the 35-year-old private equity firm known for......
(read more)May 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Steve Cohen Outed as Mystery Buyer of $91 Million Koons Bunny (Bloomberg) Steve Cohen was unmasked by Artnet as the mystery buyer of a Jeff Koons rabbit......
(read more)May 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Tom Steyer Inches Closer to 2020 White House Bid (The Washington Post) Tom Steyer, the California billionaire best known for his campaign to impeach President......
(read more)November 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Laffont Sees Tough 2019 as Tech Stocks Faced `Brutal’ October (Bloomberg) Coatue Management founder Philippe Laffont is battening down the hatches......
(read more)October 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Immune Design Corp. (NASDAQ:IMDZ): Bain Capital’s Brookside Capital filed an amended 13D. You can check out Brookside Capital’s latest holdings......
(read more)October 6 - Hedge Funds - Comments
You can access the original SEC filing by clicking here. Ownership Summary Table Page 1 of 9 – SEC Filing UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE......
(read more)April 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Sears Canada Loss Narrows As Same-Store Sales Decline Slows (Reuters) Struggling department store chain Sears Canada Inc reported a smaller first-quarter......
(read more)May 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Ackman: HLF Execs Hiring Own Lawyers An Ominous Sign (CNBC) Bill Ackman thinks shorting Herbalife is an even better short than it was when he first bet......
(read more)April 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Bain Capital‘s Brookside Capital has trimmed its exposure to PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ:PTCT), as a new filing with the Securities and Exchange......
(read more)October 27 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
In a new filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Bain Capital‘s Brookside Capital disclosed increasing its activist stake in PTC Therapeutics......
(read more)October 16 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Brookside Capital is a hedge fund founded by several Bain Consulting employees in the 1980s, as a mechanism to provide investors with direct profit from......
(read more)September 8 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Warren Buffett’s BNSF and Canadian Pacific Railway gets U.S. deadline to solve grain backlog (Financial Post) Warren Buffett’s BNSF Railway Co. and......
(read more)June 26 - Hedge Funds - Comments
From black to green: U.S. billionaire’s ‘Road to Damascus’ (Reuters) Billionaire Tom Steyer has rapidly become one of America’......
(read more)May 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In a couple of filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Deerfield Management, led by James E. Flynn, and Bain Capital’s Brookside Capital......
(read more)February 5 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Ray Dalio — founder of world’s largest hedge fund — talks ego, his philosophies at work (CBS News) In 1975, Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater......
(read more)January 31 - Hedge Funds - Comments
High-growth stocks: One of the biggest moves in the hedge fund world this week was Stephen Mandel’s decision to buy a massive stake in Pandora Media......
(read more)October 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Is Ctrip.com International, Ltd. (ADR) (NASDAQ:CTRP) a buy? To the average investor, there are dozens of metrics market participants can use to track......
(read more)August 28 - News - Comments
What’s a smart Mosaic Co (NYSE:MOS) investor to do? If you were to ask many investors, hedge funds are perceived as useless, outdated investment......
(read more)August 23 - News - Comments
FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX) is up close to 20% year-to-date, though it has seen some analyst downgrades lately. Bears, here’s more fuel to that......
(read more)August 22 - News - Comments
Curious what the smart money thinks about AutoZone, Inc. (NYSE:AZO)? To many traders, hedge funds are viewed as delayed, outdated financial tools of......
(read more)August 22 - News - Comments
Two Harbors Investment Corp (NYSE:TWO) doesn’t really get the respect it deserves from most mREIT-focused bloggers. This is a company that had enormous......
(read more)August 21 - News - Comments
In late July, Brookside Capital, which serves as a long/short equity hedge fund within the larger Bain Capital asset management organization, filed its......
(read more)July 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
At the end of September, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) was the largest holding by market value in Brookside Capital’s portfolio. However, by the end of the......
(read more)March 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Bain Capital is best known as a private equity fund engaging in leveraged buyouts, but its success has allowed it to develop other investment funds including......
(read more)February 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
As debate season heats up, we had an interesting takeaway from the first 2012 Presidential debate yesterday. Obama failed to mention anything about Romney......
(read more)October 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL), Monsanto Company (NYSE:MON), and EMC Corporation (NYSE:EMC) are among Bain Capital’s subsidiary Brookside Capital’......
(read more)September 12 - Hedge Funds - Comments
