Bill Ackman is ending a second blockbuster year in a row, but investors still aren’t won over, as Ackman’s large overseas closed-end fund, Pershing Square Holdings continues...
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December 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The big "bucks" keep flowing from Manhattan to Milwaukee.
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October 17 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Stock-picking may run in the family. Within a long letter to Apple Inc.
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October 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire investor William Ackman's Pershing Square Holdings portfolio, the hedge fund he plans to list publicly later this year, has gained 31.2 percent this year through August...
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September 3 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Sothebys (NYSE:BID), the auction house that put activist investor Dan Loeb on the board after he battled with management over performance, has entered into a partnership with ...
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July 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn now has the best bad beat story in poker after exiting the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop after just 45 minutes of play.
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June 30 - Hedge Funds - Comments
It has been well documented that many of the descendents of Julian Robertson, Jr.'s legendary Tiger Management crowd into the same stocks, especially the high-flying tech, Internet...
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June 27 - Hedge Funds - Comments
This year is shaping up to be a tough one for many of the best-known global macro hedge fund managers, who continue to struggle amid a turbulent and trendless environment for ...
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May 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
For the last several years, nobody has been more outspokenly bearish on Japan than Kyle Bass.
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May 26 - Hedge Funds - Comments
From Asian Internet stocks, which have boomed over the last year, to food and paper products companies, prominent hedge fund investors listed their favorite stocks on Thursday...
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May 16 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Secretary of State John Kerry is set to introduce billionaire investor George Soros at a State Department forum Tuesday, the Washington Free Beacon reported.
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May 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
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March 31 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Ever since the story first broke, more than five weeks ago, that David Einhorn was suing Seeking Alpha, the Israeli financial website has been very, very quiet on the topic.
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March 24 - Hedge Funds - Comments
At 78, Carl Icahn could have just rode off into retirement, his reputation as ruthless money-maker still golden, his billionaire status unsullied.
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February 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Tom Steyer, a billionaire retired hedge-fund investor, is aiming to spend $100 million to make climate change a priority issue in this year's midterm elections.
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February 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Bill Ackman, the activist hedge-fund manager, sold all of his shares in General Growth Properties Inc (NYSE:GGP), one of his most profitable investments.
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February 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Thinking about getting a new job in 2014? Well, if you’re confident that this will benefit you in the long run, go right ahead.
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January 27 - Lists - Comments
Paul Singer, the founder of the hedge fund Elliott Management, said on Wednesday that he remained skeptical that the financial markets were safer despite the changes enacted in...
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January 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
A long-held perception is that hedge funds, especially those up big for the year, like to take it easy in December.
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December 16 - Hedge Funds - Comments
David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital posted a strong 4.7 percent gain in November, putting it up 19.1 percent for the year with just one month to go.
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December 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Legg Mason’s Bill Miller is struggling to find the ‘extraordinary’ value in the US he did last year, and said equity markets could rise even higher in 2014.
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November 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Bridgewater Associates is the largest hedge fund in the world when it comes to assets under management.
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November 27 - Hedge Funds - Comments
When the "Oracle of Omaha" talks, people listen, which is why the oil sector and Exxon Mobil Corporation (NYSE:XOM) -0.02% got lots of attention after regulatory filings revealed...
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November 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund manager Richard Perry, who runs Perry Capital, has filed his third-quarter 13F with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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November 14 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Hedge-fund legend John Paulson has come up with a second act. And this time, it's on the long side.
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November 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
A star mutual-fund manager is opening up his nascent hedge fund to institutional investors.
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October 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
When Republicans make their pilgrimages to Wall Street for money to help take back the Senate next year, there may be no hotter ticket than a party at Paul Singer's.
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October 4 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner shouldn't be ruled out as a candidate for the next Federal Reserve chairman, according to delegates at a big U.S.
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September 26 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Prominent hedge fund managers criticized President Obama's decision not nominate Larry Summers to be chairman of the Federal Reserve.
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September 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Ray Dalio manages the world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates. It has a tremendous track record, so when the man talks about markets, people usually listen.
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September 23 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge-fund investor Dan Loeb's campaign to persuade Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:SNE) -0.28% to spin off part of its entertainment business was beneficial for the company, Chief...
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September 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD), Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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September 17 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Tom Steyer, San Francisco hedge-fund billionaire and million-dollar donor to Democratic candidates -- including President Obama -- is something of a one-man Big Green with greater...
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August 30 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Vale SA (ADR) (NYSE:VALE), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Expedia Inc (NASDAQ:EXPE), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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August 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Steinway Musical Instruments Inc (NYSE:LVB), Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), The Blackstone Group L.P.
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August 21 - News - Comments
What I really deal with is venture capital without the returns,” Stewart Paperin tells the audience at INSEAD’s Entrepreneurial Forum in Fontainebleau recently.
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August 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Investors in Third Point Reinsurance Ltd.’s initial public offering are betting on billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb.
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August 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Carl Icahn's complaint seeks to prevent the company from setting a new record date for a special meeting at which shareholders will vote on an offer that Dell Inc.
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August 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Friends of Democracy, the super PAC founded by the son of George Soros that wants to spend millions of dollars to take money out of politics, raked in about $1.8 million in the...
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July 26 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Soros is driven by an investment philosophy built upon the scientific method combined with a focus on societal change.
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July 26 - Hedge Funds - Comments
A giant hedge fund led by an embattled billionaire pledged to continue normal operations after an indictment accusing it of permitting an environment where extensive insider trading...
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July 26 - Hedge Funds - Comments
The Securities and Exchange Commission has rejected an $18 million settlement that would have banned billionaire hedge-fund manager Philip Falcone from the securities industry...
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July 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related tickers: FedEx Corporation (NYSE:FDX), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), McDonald's Corporation (NYSE:MCD), The Procter & Gamble Company (NYSE:PG), Facebook Inc (...
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July 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In the insider-trading investigation of hedge-fund billionaire Steven A. Cohen, the U.S.
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July 8 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Steven A.
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July 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is likely going to walk away from the proxy battle that he started at PC manufacturing company, Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL).
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June 17 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related tickers: AutoNation, Inc. (NYSE:AN), Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD), Orchard Supply Hardware Stores Corp (NASDAQ:OSH), Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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June 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
“Hedge funds are the antithesis of baseball,” says Julian Robertson, 80, billionaire founder of one of the most successful hedge funds ever, Tiger Management.
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June 6 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related tickers: UBS AG (NYSE:UBS), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), JPMorgan Chase & Co.
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June 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor's Note: Related tickers: BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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May 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
