Billionaire Investor Carl Icahn Defends Himself After ProPublica Says He Paid No Federal Income Taxes on $544 Million Declared (Business Insider) Billionaire...
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June 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Breakingviews – Capital Calls – Carl Icahn’s New Reconstructionist (Reuters) NEW YORK (Reuters Breakingviews) – DEALING AND WHEELING...
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April 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Carl Icahn Scores $757 million Profit After American Railcar Announces Merger (CNBC) Activist investor Carl Icahn scored a big payday on Monday after...
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October 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Herbalife Sinks After Largest Shareholder Carl Icahn Cashes out a Chunk of his Holdings (HLF) (Business Insider) Carl Icahn is inching his way out of...
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May 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Shareholder activism has been on the rise over the past ten years, with activist hedge funds’ assets under management exceeding the $100 billion level...
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December 22 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Numerous articles published by reputable financial websites discuss the awful performance of activist hedge funds this year, suggesting that their ideas...
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December 21 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Statistics reveal that shareholder activism has been on a surge in recent years, with new players entering the activist battleground and more capital...
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December 15 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
There is currently a debate raging on about whether or not activist shareholders are good for business. Several studies or investigations have concluded...
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December 9 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, Market Movers, News - Comments
There is sufficient evidence to claim that activist targets tend to greatly outperform broader market indexes. This is one of the main reasons hedge...
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December 7 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire Carl Icahn is one of the most feared activist investors on Wall Street and Insider Monkey had the pleasure to hear him speak at the DealBook...
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November 4 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions, News - Comments
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn has recently reached an agreement with Gannett Co., Inc. (NYSE:GCI), following which he decided to withdraw...
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March 2 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Irving Kahn, one of the oldest money managers on Wall Street, passed away this week. The hedge fund manager and finance mogul was 109 years old and astonishingly...
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February 28 - Lists - Comments
Leon Cooperman‘s Omega Advisors has had a tough year, as overexposure to some energy stocks led to a 2.13% decline for the year. The market value...
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February 18 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
As it was reported in the news in the last couple of days, activist investor Carl Icahn took some important steps regarding two companies, in which he...
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January 22 - Commodities, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Daniel Loeb’s Third Point Raised $2.5 Billion in Two Weeks (WSJ) New York hedge-fund manager Daniel Loeb has raised a $2.5 billion war chest to...
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September 11 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Buffett’s Ex-Hedge Fund Managers Outperform Oracle (FINalternatives) Warren Buffett is proving to have as keen an eye for talent as he has for...
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January 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Tudor Just Picked Up Some Exposure To Loathed Emerging Markets (Barrons) There aren’t many broad market exposures more distrusted right now than emerging...
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November 15 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The Stock Tastes of a Few Investment Titans (Barrons) Hedge-fund legend John Paulson has come up with a second act. And this time, it’s on the long...
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November 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor’s Note: Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Nuance Communications Inc. (NASDAQ:NUAN), Chesapeake Energy Corporation (...
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August 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor’s Note: Related tickers: Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:SNE), SandRidge Energy Inc. (NYSE:SD), Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES), Newfield Exploration...
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June 21 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor’s Note: Related tickers: Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:SNE), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), SEI Investments Company (...
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May 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor’s Note: Related Tickers: Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) T. Boone Pickens, Family Sue...
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April 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
