Activist shop Engaged Capital is raising money for a special-purpose vehicle that would aid its quest to take over a publicly traded nutrition and weight-loss company.
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February 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Sound Point Capital Management, an alternative asset management firm with approximately USD21 billion of assets under management, has appointed Francis McCullough as Global Head...
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February 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper, who was bullish on the market just a few weeks ago, said the coronavirus outbreak has changed the environment around stocks.
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February 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Jamie Dinan, the founder of $17.6 billion York Capital and a co-owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks, told attendees of Context Summits in Miami that Japan, a post-Brexit United...
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January 31 - 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
BOSTON (Reuters) - Oil drilling firm Valaris PLC reached a settlement with Luminus Management and said on Monday that it has appointed one of the hedge fund’s partners to its...
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January 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Tiger Global Management has closed on a $3.75 billion private-equity fund, the latest sign of investors’ continued interest in private technology companies despite worries about...
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January 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Legendary investor Bill Miller’s hedge fund jumped 120% last year -- and he says it’s because he didn’t stray from his top names.
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January 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The assets of Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management could soon surpass those of predecessor SAC Capital. Point72 was running $16.1 billion this month.
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January 22 - 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
Chris Hohn’s hedge fund firm, TCI Fund Management, made more money in financial markets than any of the world’s most successful hedge fund firms in 2019, marking his ascendancy...
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January 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller said Friday he agrees with fellow billionaire investor David Tepper’s optimism on the market and said he, too, is still “riding the...
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
During a White House ceremony Wednesday to sign a first-round trade pact with China, President Donald Trump thanked a long list of elected leaders and called out the names of ...
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January 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investor Jeffrey Ubben, already betting there is money to be made from coaxing corporations into being better citizens, gained an ally on Tuesday when BlackRock...
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January 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Many of the biggest activist hedge funds saw blockbuster returns last year as concentrated wagers on companies from fast-food restaurants to real estate paid off.
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January 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Tom Steyer, a California businessman, jumped into the 2020 race with little political track record beyond supporting campaigns on climate change, youth activism and the impeachment...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
PointState Capital, the macro hedge fund started by former traders for billionaire Stan Druckenmiller, is blocking investors who ask to pull their money out from getting their...
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January 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON, Jan 9 (Reuters) - Two years ago, investor William Ackman, who pushes corporations to perform better, took his own advice and laid out a plan for a comeback after years...
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January 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management returned 33% last year, beating the broader stock market even after slashing its valuation of beleaguered e-cigarette company Juul Labs...
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January 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey’s main hedge fund slumped to a fourth annual loss in the last five years as his bearish bets misfired amid the longest-running equities bull market in history.
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January 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bill Ackman's hedge fund is on track to land massive returns after three years of negative net performance.
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January 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
COPENHAGEN (Reuters) - Hedge fund Marshall Wace is betting on Danske Bank (DANSKE.CO) shares falling after taking a short position in the Danish lender of 0.5% of issued shares...
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January 3 - 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
It was a difficult year for the hedge fund sector, as the industry is poised to end the year with more closures than launches for the fifth straight year, according to Bloomberg...
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January 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Point72, Renaissance Technologies, and Millennium are Trying to Make Quant Strategies Work in Bond Markets.
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December 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The pain kept coming for hedge funds in 2019: if they weren’t being killed off, they were bleeding cash or wringing out dismal returns.
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December 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
CEDAR RAPIDS - California businessman Tom Steyer says he plans to spend at least $100 million on his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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December 27 - 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
Hedge-fund firms York Capital Management and Southpaw Asset Management are barring clients from getting back all of the money they have requested for year-end, a sign of the pressure...
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December 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Here is how the activist hedge fund fared with its investment in Investors Bancorp, which accounted for 18 percent of its U.S. long assets.
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December 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citi Group (C.N) and hedge fund ValueAct Capital said on Thursday they would extend an existing information-sharing agreement for another two years through...
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December 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Two years after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in the 2008 financial crisis, hedge fund billionaire David Tepper made a bold market call on CNBC about the power of the Federal...
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December 18 - 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
LONDON (Reuters) - Monaco-based hedge fund Tyrus Capital said on Monday it had agreed to buy the UK-based business of Tyndaris LLP for an undisclosed sum in a deal that will nearly...
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December 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The public and oftentimes nasty wars waged by activist investors this decade are personified by the 2013 “Battle of the Billionaires” on CNBC.
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December 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
York Capital Management founder Jamie Dinan said the best way to create superior return is through activism.
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December 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Brevan Howard Asset Management is again backing Adam Fisher, a global-macro manager whose capital-raising efforts appear to be rapidly gaining momentum.
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December 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Say what you like about outspoken activist hedge fund investors such as Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman, Paul Singer or Dan Loeb but at least you know where they stand.
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December 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Tiger Global Management slashed its valuation of e-cigarette startup Juul Labs Inc.
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December 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Michael Dell’s money managers are making the most significant change in years to how they invest the billionaire’s wealth. MSD Capital, Mr.
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December 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Fox News' Tucker Carlson said Wednesday night that Sen.
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December 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, the often-bearish investor and outspoken China critic, told CNBC on Wednesday that he supports an effort by a U.S.
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December 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BlueCrest Capital Management is suing two former traders who say they were forced to leave when the hedge fund’s billionaire owner, Michael Platt, described the equity trading...
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December 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
LONDON (Reuters Breakingviews) - Chris Hohn made his name by assaulting the entrenched boards of European companies.
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December 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
One of London’s most successful hedge funds has declared profits of £258m, delivering a multimillion-pound windfall to its 17 partners.
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November 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is one of the best-known and successful fund managers in the world.
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November 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund managers Bill Ackman, Paul Singer, Dan Loeb and David Tepper have had an active third quarter.
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November 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
