A New leaf: why a Hedge Fund Manager Bought a Bank (Risk.net) Andy Redleaf founded a $6 billion hedge fund. Now he runs a small community bank. In many......
(read more)December 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Breakingviews – TCI Plays Outrider to Mark Carney’s Climate Drive (Reuters) LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) – Chris Hohn made his name by......
(read more)December 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Lone Pine Capital’s Latest Investor Letter Argues that Tech Disruption has Destroyed the Value Stock Thesis, and Warns that the ‘Past is Not......
(read more)November 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Wall Street Billionaire’s Socialite Wife in Explosive Suit Name-dropping Alicia Keys (Fox Business) Billionaire hedge fund boss Philip Falcone and......
(read more)November 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
BlueMountain Shareholder AMG Weighs Hedge Fund Firm Exit (Bloomberg) Affiliated Managers Group Inc. is exploring a sale of its majority stake in BlueMountain......
(read more)August 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Ackman’s London-Listed Pershing Square Gets Its Own Activist (Bloomberg) Bill Ackman’s publicly-traded Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. has an activist......
(read more)July 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Here’s How the Biggest Hedge Fund Managers Did in the First-Half (Bloomberg) It’s been the best start to a year for hedge funds in a decade, and the......
(read more)July 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Finance Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities Trading Firm Is On A Silicon Valley Hiring Binge (Forbes) Stuart Feldman has played a prominent......
(read more)June 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Paul Tudor Jones Hits Palm Beach With Mick Mulvaney by His Side (Bloomberg) Paul Tudor Jones sat with Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff......
(read more)February 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire Hedge Fund Mogul George Soros Warns That the US-China ‘Cold War’ Could Escalate Into a ‘Hot One’ (CCN) Billionaire hedge funder George......
(read more)January 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire Steven Cohen Flips the Script: Picking Up Facebook (FB) Stock, Tuning Out Roku (ROKU) (SmarterAnalyst.com) Back in November, billionaire Steve......
(read more)December 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Kmart Was Once Rescued from Bankruptcy by Eddie Lampert. It’s Unclear Whether it will Happen Again (CNBC) Much has changed in retail over the past 16......
(read more)December 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge Fund Offers Truce to Save Sears Swaps Wager (The Wall Street Journal) One of Sears Holdings Corp.’s largest creditors is offering a settlement......
(read more)November 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Ackman Bets China Coffee Drinkers Will Be Next Fast-Food Win (Bloomberg) Three years ago, Bill Ackman was shorting China’s currency. Now he’s going......
(read more)October 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
John Rogers: Bridging the Wealth Gap (ThinkAdvisor.com) Think about this when you hear the term “wealth gap”: A 2015 St. Louis Fed study found that......
(read more)August 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Struggling Hedge Fund Folger Hill is Merging with Another Fund (Business Insider) Hedge fund Folger Hill Asset Management is merging with Schonfeld Strategic......
(read more)April 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Steven Cohen Wins Dismissal of $8 billion Fairfax Short-selling Lawsuit (Reuters) (Reuters) – The billionaire Steven A. Cohen has won the dismissal......
(read more)April 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Elliott Turns to Snail Mail in NXP Mom-and-Pop Investor Campaign (Reuters) (Reuters) – Activist hedge fund Elliott Management Corp launched a campaign......
(read more)February 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire Investor Howard Marks Says ‘Unrealistic’ Investors Are Getting Desperate (Business Insider) Howard Marks, the billionaire founder......
(read more)January 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading, News - Comments
Cohen’s Fund Returned A Measly 1% Last Year (Bloomberg) Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management returned about 1 percent in 2016, the second-worst......
(read more)January 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge Fund Manager Odey Says U.K. Stocks Could Plummet 80% (Bloomberg) Crispin Odey, whose main hedge fund has lost about 43 percent this year, says U......
(read more)November 1 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Kynikos Associates Founder Chanos: We’re Still Short Caterpillar (CNBC) Famed short-seller Jim Chanos said that the fundamental story for Caterpillar......
(read more)October 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Is George Soros Calling a Top in Gold? (The Wall Street Journal) George Soros is getting out of gold. The billionaire investor jumped back into trading......
(read more)August 16 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Cohen’s New Firm Said to Meet With Investors Ahead of 2018 (Bloomberg) Stamford Harbor Capital, the new firm started by Steven Cohen and led by a longtime......
(read more)August 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Steve Cohen, the founder of the inactive hedge fund firm SAC Capital, currently manages his own family office hedge fund called Point72 Asset Management......
(read more)June 22 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Keith Meister’s Corvex Takes Large Stake In Yum Brands: Sources (CNBC) Earlier, Dan Loeb‘s Third Point took new positions in Yum Brands and Devon......
(read more)May 1 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Celgene, Shire Make Five as Kyle Bass Expands Drug Patent Fight (Bloomberg) Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass has expanded the number of drug companies whose......
(read more)April 23 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Paulson Tripled Shire Stake Before Deal Fell Apart (Finalternatives) John Paulson clearly did not see the collapse of pharmaceutical giant AbbVie Inc (......
(read more)November 17 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire Steve Cohen pays $100 million for art sculpture (PageSix) Billionaie hedge fund manager Steve Cohen is the secret buyer of the Alberto Giacometti......
(read more)November 11 - Hedge Funds - Comments
New Name, New Office, Similar Performance for Steven Cohen (NYTimes) The best thing federal prosecutors might have done for Steven A. Cohen, the billionaire......
(read more)October 16 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Pershing Square Fund Float Feels the Market’s Chills (WSJ) The global market for initial public offerings has had a patchy year at best and activist......
(read more)October 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Carl Icahn Reveals Performance of Son Brett’s Portfolio (WSJ) Stock-picking may run in the family. Within a long letter to Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) +......
(read more)October 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Sandell Debuts New Activist Fund with $100mn in Assets (InstitutionalInvestorsAlpha) Thomas Sandell‘s New York-based firm Sandell Asset Management......
(read more)September 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Activist Investor Barry Rosenstein to Join Walgreen Board (NYTimes) The activist investor Barry Rosenstein will join the board of Walgreen, the drugstore......
(read more)September 8 - Hedge Funds - Comments
SEC’s civil case against SAC’s Cohen may get delayed again (NYPost) Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission......
(read more)August 27 - Hedge Funds - Comments
As previously reported, Billionaire Steven Cohen earlier this year shut down his fund SAC Capital Advisors and opened Point72 Asset Management, a fund......
(read more)August 15 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Profits Soaring After Disgrace at Cohen’s Hedge Fund (NYTimes) Three months after his once-powerful hedge fund entered a guilty plea to insider trading......
(read more)July 30 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire Steven Cohen has been quite active over the past couple of months. The hedge fund manager filed five Schedule 13G forms at the SEC over the......
(read more)July 30 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Renaissance Probed by Senate Panel on Tax Maneuver (Bloomberg) A U.S. Senate investigative panel will hold a hearing July 22 to probe tax maneuvers by......
(read more)July 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
I’m selling 6 times more than buying: Wilbur Ross (CNBC.com) With the stock market recently at all-time highs, before Thursday’s sharp selloff......
(read more)July 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
SEC Gets Subpoena In Steve Cohen Divorce Suit (Law360) Patricia Cohen, the ex-wife of SAC Capital Advisors LP founder Steven Cohen, has subpoenaed the......
(read more)July 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Steven Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management, formerly known as SAC Capital, has revealed a new position in Tri Pointe Homes Inc. (NYSE:TPH). In a new......
(read more)June 30 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Allergan Poison Pill Won’t Be Triggered by Pershing Call (Bloomberg) Allergan, Inc. (NYSE:AGN) agreed with Pershing Square Capital Management LP that......
(read more)June 30 - Hedge Funds - Comments
What the Tiger Cubs Have in Common (InstitutionalInvestorsAlpha) It has been well documented that many of the descendents of Julian Robertson, Jr.’......
(read more)June 27 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Buffett Warning Unheeded as Catastrophe Bond Sales Climb (Bloomberg) Bond buyers are betting more than ever on the mercy of Mother Nature as they seek......
(read more)June 17 - Hedge Funds - Comments
David Tepper Tells CNBC His Market Concern is Alleviated (BusinessWeek) Billionaire hedge-fund manager David Tepper, who said last month that he was nervous......
(read more)June 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
SAC Prosecutor Tells SEC Cohen’s Case Should Be Delayed (Bloomberg) SAC Capital Advisors LP founder Steven A. Cohen’s case brought by the U.S. Securities......
(read more)May 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
3 bullish moves by hedge fund Millennium Management (MarketWatch) In the latest round of 13F filings, Israel Englander‘s Millennium Management......
(read more)May 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Paulson holds onto gold ETF, Soros adds gold miners in first-quarter (Reuters) Hedge fund Paulson & Co in Q1 maintained its stake in SPDR Gold......
(read more)May 16 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund mogul Tepper warns: Don’t be too long U.S. stocks (Reuters) Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper sounded a cautious message on......
(read more)May 15 - Hedge Funds - Comments
