Last Friday morning, billionaire energy tycoon T. Boone Pickens was in a meeting with another politically active hedge fund manager in New York City.
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October 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Tiger Global Management, the New York-based hedge fund firm founded by Tiger Cub Charles (Chase) Coleman III, is the latest hedge fund firm to post disappointing results for September...
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October 3 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire Wilbur Ross invited Paul Ryan over for lunch. Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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March 12 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Ever wonder how the super-rich manage their investments and retire on that private island with afternoon mojitos? A big part of it is investing in the assets not available to ...
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November 5 - Dividend Stocks, News - Comments
For hundreds of years, family offices have been the financial equivalent of social registers — small, musty preserves of the rich that have little impact on the real world.
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June 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund investor Whitney Tilson is standing a little taller tonight after shares of Netflix, Inc.
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December 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
One of the hedge funds run by John Paulson, whose prescient bets against housing where chronicled in the book "The Greatest Trade Ever," is on track to be the second worst performer...
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December 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Renaissance Technologies is one of the most mysterious hedge funds in the world.
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November 27 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge-fund titan Steven Cohen is casting a shadow over the government’s last outstanding insider-trading trial.
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November 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Investors knew that the results of the election would bode well for some asset classes and be a hindrance for others, and it appears that one of the losers has come out of the...
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November 16 - News - Comments
The past few weeks have been rough on crude oil, as the massive commodity has been seeing a major decline in price.
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November 16 - News - Comments
Late Tuesday night, it was announced that Barack Obama had won his re-election campaign, and will spend four more years in the White House.
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November 12 - News - Comments
Navistar International Corp (NYSE:NAV) bond yields are rising while those of other U.S.
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November 12 - Hedge Funds - Comments
After Tuesday’s election results, analysts of all kinds are weighing in on how they think the next four years will go.
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November 9 - News - Comments
The detention of the ship was ordered on application to a court by Elliott Capital Management, which has bought up debt associated with bonds on which the Argentinian government...
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November 8 - Hedge Funds - Comments
President Obama wins his re-election bid. The dollar fell and the Euro rose upon the news, as concerns about the fiscal cliff loom.
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November 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Tomorrow will mark the battle for what could be the 45th President of the United States.
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November 6 - News - Comments
SAC Re the Bermuda based Class 4 reinsurer backed by Steven A.
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November 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Tom Steyer’s announcement last week that he would step down from the hedge fund he founded, Farallon Capital, came as no surprise to those who have been paying attention to ...
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October 29 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Major political events can have a powerful effect on the market, particularly oil stocks.
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October 25 - Stock Analysis - Comments
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn raised concerns about the U.S.
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October 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
One of the hottest trades of the past few months has been the bonds of a country so shaken by economic and social turmoil that a neo-Nazi party is running third in the polls.
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October 23 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge-fund manager John Paulson famously made nearly $4 billion in 2007 correctly betting that the housing bubble, fueled by the subprime mortgage market, would pop.
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October 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
You could not blame GLG Partners co-founder Noam Gottesman for feeling a little smug today.
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October 18 - Hedge Funds - Comments
One of the best things about the fall of a presidential election year is the televised debates between the incumbent commander-in-chief and his challenger.
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October 17 - Stock Analysis - Comments
When it comes to the fuel of the future, many have been touting the advantages of natural gas for our economy, while others point to alternative energies to lead us into the ...
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October 16 - News - Comments
The European Union could be destroyed by the "nightmare" euro crisis, and Germany needs to take the responsibility to save the common currency, billionaire fund manager George...
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October 16 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Index Universe’s Inside Commodities conference took place in Chicago this week, and we were lucky enough to get passes to hear the likes of Dennis Gartman and Peter Schiff ...
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October 15 - News - Comments
George Soros’, Soros Fund Management, a hedge fund management company, which he founded in 1969, bought 2% convertible Bond holdings in Digital River, Inc.
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October 12 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Friday’s employment data had a number of people in an uproar.
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October 10 - News - Comments
I recently came across an old transcript of a David Einhorn speech at the Value Investing Congress in 2006.
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October 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
During the first presidential debate, a Yahoo Finance poll found that 80% of voters (33,782) believed Mitt Romney gave a stronger performance than President Obama.
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October 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Veteran investors Jim Rogers and 'Dr Doom' Marc Faber have clashed over the merits of investing in Chinese equities.
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October 8 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Big Bird is a billionaire.
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October 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
As debate season heats up, we had an interesting takeaway from the first 2012 Presidential debate yesterday.
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October 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Arch Coal Inc (NYSE:ACI) – Shares in Arch Coal, Inc., which traded down to their lowest levels of the past decade during the month of July, caught a bid on Thursday, energized...
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October 4 - News - Comments
Tiger Global, one of the world's best-performing hedge funds, ended the third quarter with strong gains, leaving the fund up 22.4 percent for the year, two people familiar with...
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October 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
By now everyone is familiar with Ben Bernanke and his money printing strategies for solving an economy in crisis.
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October 2 - News - Comments
Apple is not only the most profitable company in the world, but it also now owns the world’s largest hedge fund as well.
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October 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Mark Fetting, chief executive officer of Legg Mason, Inc. (NYSE:LM), was out of time.
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September 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Seattle City Council members this summer said they wouldn't approve a $490 million basketball and hockey arena without knowing more about Chris Hansen's business plan, his investors...
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September 24 - Hedge Funds - Comments
For the next two months, all anyone will be talking about is who will win the November election and how that will impact our nation.
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September 18 - News - Comments
You know that really damaging hidden camera footage of Mitt Romney that's making the rounds today? Mother Jones' David Corn has revealed that the tapes come from a fundraiser ...
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September 18 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Central bankers are “counterfeit money printers” and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should resign for messing up the U.S.
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September 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
While most hedge fund managers are backing President Barack Obama's opponent this November, Farallon Capital Management founder Thomas Steyer is keeping faith with his liberal...
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September 11 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros made some bold statements in an interview with the Financial Times, saing that Germany must either lead the Eurozone out of...
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September 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Maverick Capital Ltd.'s Steve Galbraith, who left a top investment-strategist post at Morgan Stanley MS +3.64% for the hedge fund eight years ago, plans to leave the firm as soon...
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September 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Corporate and city leaders hailed a reinvigorated LeachGarner as a reaffirmation of tradition and an investment in the future at the company's grand opening ceremony Thursday.
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September 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Warren Buffett once said, “Don’t invest in something you don’t understand.” I beg to differ! Investors, especially older ones who struggle to understand technology, would...
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September 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments
One year ago Assets at Marc Lasry’s Avenue Capital Group dipped to $12.3 billion by midyear 2011, from $18 billion just six months earlier, as the firm had been liquidating ...
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September 5 - Hedge Funds - Comments