Marc Lasry, the co-founder, chairman and chief executive of private-equity firm and hedge-fund investor Avenue Capital, has seen plenty of success in the sports world, as the ...
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April 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge fund titan Clifford Asness joined traders in slamming the London Metal Exchange after the platform cancelled trades – a move that may have helped stem losses at a fund...
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March 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Michael Platt’s wealth swelled even further last year as the billionaire continues to outperform most hedge funds with the freedom to take on riskier bets after returning clients...
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
LONDON (Reuters) - Britain’s markets watchdog said on Wednesday it will fine hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management UK 41 million pounds ($54.50 million) for conflict of interest...
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December 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Asking clients to take their billions away has worked wonders for Michael Platt.
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January 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund Citadel’s investments in commodities returned more than $1 billion this year, according to three people familiar with the matter, helping to ...
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December 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire investor Howard Marks joined a growing chorus of notable investors in warning that the market rebound has gone too far given the uphill battle of developing a cure...
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May 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
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 - Comments
BOSTON (Reuters) - Balyasny Asset Management, a Chicago-based hedge fund that shed $4 billion in assets last year and cut 20% of its staff, was back in positive territory for ...
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July 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Brevan Howard Asset Management’s flagship hedge fund returned 3.9% in June, capping off its best first half since 2009.
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July 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Star fund manager Michael Platt has been named the City’s richest hedgie for the fifth year in a row, after his wealth surged by £700 million.
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May 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
William Reeves and Michael Platt founded alternative asset management company BlueCrest Capital Management LP in 2000.
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October 22 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Billionaire hedge fund manager William Ackman, whose investment assets have shrunk by more than half in the last three years, has made a second round of staff cuts and laid off...
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June 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Michael Platt of BlueCrest Capital cemented his position atop the list of highest-earning hedge fund managers, taking home a cool $2 billion in earnings in 2017.
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May 22 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
The stock market’s main gauges will rack up weekly gains of 2% or more, if they can just make it through today’s session unscathed.
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May 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Shares of Valeant Pharmaceuticals dropped Tuesday after news surfaced late Monday that billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman sold his remaining stock in the company.
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March 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass expressed frustration that the U.S.
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October 6 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire investor William Ackman's portfolios climbed nearly 6 percent in August, boosted by strong gains at drug company Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc where changes...
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September 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire hedge fund boss Bill Ackman told CNBC on Friday the past 12 months were the "worst period of performance" of his investment career, and the implosion of Valeant Pharmaceuticals...
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August 26 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Michael Platt and William Reeves' BlueCrest Capital Management is one fund that has been an anomaly to the general disappointment felt by hedgies this year.
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November 28 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
BlueCrest Capital Management is among Europe’s biggest hedge funds, with $14 billion in assets under management as of January 1, 2015.
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August 21 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Warren Buffett had plenty of admirers Saturday at the annual meeting of his Berkshire Hathaway Inc. in Omaha, Nebraska.
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May 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Things are changing atop the ranks of the richest hedge fund mangers.
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April 24 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Paul Tudor Jones has become increasingly frustrated with global corporations’ ”emphasis on profits, on short-term quarterly earnings and share...
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April 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Biggest Hedge Fund Managers: As outlined in an article that explains Why We Track Hedge Funds at InsiderMonkey, the hedge fund industry has been one of tremendous growth over ...
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October 28 - Lists - Comments
Jamie Zimmerman’s Litespeed Management has gone activist on RadioShack Corporation (NYSE:RSH).
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October 8 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Patricia Cohen, the ex-wife of SAC Capital Advisors LP founder Steven Cohen, has subpoenaed the U.S.
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July 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire Tom Steyer has rapidly become one of America's most visible environmental advocates, vowing to punish lawmakers who don't oppose climate change and pledging to spend...
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May 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In the equity portfolio of John Burbank‘s Passport Capital, the holding of Solazyme Inc (NASDAQ:SZYM) has climbed a couple of positions recently, following Passport raising...
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April 4 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Dmitry Balyasny is one hedge fund owner who isn’t afraid of hiring traders from SAC Capital Advisors as long as they were far away from the “messiness” that engulfed the...
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February 27 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Four of six BlueCrest Capital strategies were positive in December, with the hedge fund operator’s BlueCrest Capital International and BlueTrend finding difficulty.
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January 23 - Hedge Funds - Comments
ValueWalk obtained a letter where Third Avenue Management's chairman/founder Martin Whitman blasts Nobel Prize Laureate Eugene Fama.
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January 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
George Soros, the billionaire investor, philanthropist and backer of liberal causes, has signed on to be a co-chair of the national finance council for Ready for Hillary, the ...
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October 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Winton Capital Management Ltd., the $24.5 billion hedge-fund firm founded by David Harding, said profit plunged 64 percent last year after its main fund posted just its second...
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October 3 - Hedge Funds - Comments
In the 21st century investor’s toolkit, there are a multitude of indicators shareholders can use to analyze the equity markets.
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August 30 - News - Comments
The US Airways Group, Inc. (NYSE:LCC) merger seemed like a done deal. Now, it's 50/50, according to many analysts. The U.S.
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August 23 - News - Comments
If you'd ask most investors, hedge funds are seen as unimportant, outdated investment vehicles of yesteryear.
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June 18 - News - Comments
The Sunday Times is out with its list of UK's wealthiest hedge fund managers.
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May 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
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April 23 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn raised concerns about the U.S.
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October 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
