Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Peter Thiel, an ally of former President Donald Trump, are backing a startup investing firm that says it plans to go head to head against large...
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May 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire investor Bill Ackman said he’s prepared to return the $4 billion he collected from investors in his blank-check company if regulators approve a new vehicle that ...
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August 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Bill Ackman’s hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management LP is in discussions to raise $1 billion to help fund its bet on Vivendi SE’s Universal Music Group, according ...
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August 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The life sciences specialist’s hedge fund is down significantly this year — and its recently merged SPAC is also underwater.
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July 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Europe’s largest activist fund has built a 5% stake in the London listed insurance company Aviva as its chief executive, Amanda Blanc, became the second female FTSE 100 boss...
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June 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
In October 2013, when Carl Icahn started selling his large position in Netflix, many believed the vaunted billionaire investor had done it again.
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March 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
A Marshall Wace hedge fund that bets on rising and falling stocks slumped to a record loss in January, as the U.S.
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February 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman appears to have scored one of his best years ever in 2020 despite a volatile market rocked by a global pandemic, an economic recession and a presidential...
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January 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
(Reuters) - Jim Chanos, who has been short on Tesla Inc’s stock for five years, has reduced his bet against the electric carmaker, the short-seller told Bloomberg News on Thursday...
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December 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Galaxy Digital founder Michael Novogratz, who in February correctly predicted bitcoin would set new highs in 2020, on Tuesday broke down how he sees the cryptocurrency trade playing...
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December 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Seth Klarman’s Baupost Group piled into some of the most popular blank-check deals this year, seeking to capitalize on a burgeoning market.
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November 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Citadel Securities told a London court that officials at British hedge fund GSA Capital LLP can’t unsee information taken from a secret algorithm that is at the center of a ...
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November 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
William Lawrence, a New York real-estate guy, has for years teamed up with hedge-fund billionaire Seth Klarman to buy racehorses.
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October 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Anthony Scaramucci Told us His Contrarian Views on the Risks Investors Face After the Elections Regardless of Who Wins — and Shared How His $7.5 billion SkyBridge Capital is...
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September 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Bill Ackman Says Airbnb's First Choice is to Choose the IPO Route After the Home-Rental Platform Declined a $5 billion Cash Injection from His 'Blank-Check' Company (Business ...
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September 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Mads Thamsborg, former Head of Shorts and Partner at the now-closed Bodenholm Capital, is preparing to launch a new hedge fund out of Stockholm in ...
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July 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Bill Ackman is putting a modern-day spin on a centuries-old financial innovation with the special purpose acquisition company he plans to take public.
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July 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Longtime bitcoin bull Michael Novogratz of Galaxy Digital tweeted on Monday that bitcoin will soon take out the $10,000 resistance level and traders should get on board.
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June 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
A judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a hedge fund against the widow of one of the fund’s employees.
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May 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Monday the U.S.
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April 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Boaz Weinstein’s main hedge fund gained 82% in the first quarter, as many of his peers struggled to navigate their way through the worst turbulence since the global financial...
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March 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
LONDON, March 26 (Reuters) - Swedish hedge fund manager Bodenholm Capital, which manages 5.1 billion Swedish crowns ($511.2 million), is shutting down and returning capital to...
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March 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
LONDON (Reuters) - American hedge fund firm Glenview Capital Partners lost 7.1% in February, bring year to date losses to 13.7%, showed data compiled by HSBC and seen by Reuters...
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March 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
LONDON, March 5 (Reuters) - Billionaire Alan Howard’s hedge fund generated gains across the firm in February as many peers struggled in the wake of coronavirus.
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March 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Pershing Square bucks a down market with August gains.
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September 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
WHP Global (WHP), a new brand management platform led by Chairman & CEO Yehuda Shmidman has launched backed by a USD200 million equity commitment from funds managed by Oaktree...
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July 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Renaissance Technologies, the hedge fund giant that Deutsche Bank AG has counted as one of its largest clients, has been taking money out of its prime brokerage accounts with ...
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July 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The hedge fund firm founded by billionaire Daniel Och has finally put one of the industry’s biggest scandals behind it -- quietly.
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July 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge fund giant Citadel has executed and cleared both cash Treasury and repo trades through DTCC’s fixed income clearing house in the latest milestone for US buy-side activity...
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June 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Things are looking pretty good for activist investor Bill Ackman.
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May 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Activist investor Bill Ackman's Pershing Square Holdings is off to a strong start in 2019 thanks to some key new stakes and outperformance of prior investments.
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February 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Activist investor Carl Icahn scored a big payday on Monday after shares of tanker car maker American Railcar Industries surged on news that the company will merge with a subsidiary...
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October 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Chairman and CEO of Omega Advisors Leon Cooperman told CNBC on Wednesday he would take some profits on his holdings if stocks gained because the market is fully valued.
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June 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
(Reuters) - Starboard Value LP, which is looking to replace the entire board of Newell Brands Inc (NWL.N), said on Wednesday three of its nominees would buy about $25 million ...
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March 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Thirteen years ago Eric Mindich set an industry record when he raised $3 billion for his new hedge fund Eton Park.
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March 23 - Hedge Funds - Comments
(Reuters Breakingviews) - The last chapter for Sears looks to be at hand. The troubled U.S.
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March 22 - Hedge Funds - 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
Peltz is that rare breed of insurgent known as "operational activists" because his track record as an operator sets him apart from "financial activists," investors from a hedge...
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March 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management returned about 1 percent in 2016, the second-worst annual performance ever for the billionaire investor, according to people familiar ...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn said he will be “rallying against overregulation” in his role as a special adviser to President-elect Donald Trump.
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December 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
New York-based hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management L.P. and his founder, billionaire William A.
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August 1 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Highly-scrutinized activist investor Bill Ackman is no longer on the list of the top 20 best-performing hedge fund managers, after Pershing Square Capital Management L.P.
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April 5 - Dividend Stocks, Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
According to fresh data from Hedge Fund Research, the activist hedge fund industry lost 6.52% in the first two months of this year, versus the decline of 2% for the average hedge...
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March 24 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Both small- and large-scale investors share a valuable asset when it comes to equity investing: information.
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March 17 - Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Renowned activist investor Bill Ackman has been removed from the list of 20 best-performing hedge fund managers in history, after his fund Pershing Square Capital Management ...
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February 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News - Comments
Nearly one year ago, Jeffrey Ubben showed up at a New York investment conference with news: His San Francisco-based ValueAct Capital Management hedge fund had taken a $2 billion...
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April 2 - Hedge Funds - Comments