11 Biggest Financial Scandals in History
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Hedge Fund News: Steven Cohen, Carl Icahn & Lansdowne Partners
The best thing federal prosecutors might have done for Steven A.
Hedge Fund News: Ken Griffin, Thomas Steyer & George Soros
Kenneth Griffin’s Chicago-based hedge fund firm, Citadel, continues to deftly maneuver through the turbulence in global financial markets, which has confounded many multistrategy...
Hedge Fund News: T Boone Pickens, David Einhorn & Jana Partners
It's billionaire oil tycoon T. Boone Pickens birthday today. The 86-year-old certainly has a way with words and a knack for telling it like it is.
Hedge Fund Highlights: Warren Buffett, Wilbur Ross & Bridgewater Associates
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Hedge Fund News: Robert Citrone, Paul Singer & Carl Icahn
Hedge fund billionaire Robert Citrone was probably glad to turn the calendar page after a brutal March for his flagship funds.
Hedge Fund News: Dmitry Balyasny, Daniel Loeb & SAC Capital Advisors
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...
Hedge Fund News: Chase Coleman, Bill Ackman & George Soros
Tiger Global Management’s private equity business continues to be as active in the new year as it was in the fourth quarter of last year.
Hedge Fund News: Alan Howard, Ray Dalio & John Paulson
Brevan Howard Asset Management, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, with more than $40 billion in assets under management, is closing down its emerging markets fund, according...
Hedge Fund News: Leon Cooperman, Dan Loeb & George Soros
The stock market’s decline this year is healthy and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index probably will end 2014 higher, Leon Cooperman, chairman of hedge fund Omega Advisors Inc...
Hedge Fund News: Warren Buffett, Jim Chanos & Jim Rogers
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...
Hedge Fund News: Jeff Vinik, Meredith Whitney & Jim Chanos’ Thoughts on Oil
Jeffrey Vinik, the money manager who shut his hedge fund earlier this year after returns slumped, is providing $20 million in startup capital for an investment firm run by his...
Hedge Fund News: John Arnold’s $10M Donation, Paul Singer & Advertising
Former hedge fund manager John Arnold and his wife have pledged up to $10 million in an effort to fund Head Start programs that could no longer operate due to the government shutdown...
Herbalife Ltd. (HLF) News Trends: KPMG’s Exit, William Stiritz, Prof. William Keep & More
KPMG resigned as the auditor of Herbalife Ltd after one of its senior partners engaged in insider trading in Herbalife stock, the nutritional products company said on Tuesday.
Hedge Fund News: Paul Singer, David Einhorn, Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (BRK.B)
Editor's Note: Related Tickers: Berkshire Hathaway Inc. (NYSE:BRK.B), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), MGM Resorts International (NYSE:MGM), Apple Inc.
Hedge Fund News: Carl Icahn, John Burbank, AT&T Inc. (T)
Editor's Note: Related Tickers: Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT), SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK), Google Inc (NASDAQ:GOOG), UTStarcom Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:UTSI), AT&T Inc...
Hedge Fund News: Carl Icahn, Jim Rogers, Apple Inc (AAPL)
Long known for pushing companies to take actions to increase or unlock value, Carl Icahn is delivering a bit more to his own shareholders.
Hedge Fund News: David Einhorn, Steven Cohen, Citigroup Inc.
Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., the reinsurer that counts hedge-fund manager David Einhorn as its chairman, rose the most since August as UBS AG raised its rating on the firm to buy...
Hedge Fund News: Leon Cooperman, Steven Cohen, Apple
Apple is not only the most profitable company in the world, but it also now owns the world’s largest hedge fund as well.
Hedge Fund News: Chase Coleman, Ray Dalio, 3G Capital
It isn't every day that Ray Dalio opens up to the world and speaks. Dalio is widely considered the most powerful hedge fund manager in the world.
Warren Buffett News: Buy A Dollar For 50 Cents
Raise your hand if you want a crash course over the income statement from Warren Buffett! Here’s a handful of tools so simple a caveman can do it.
Warren Buffett News: Big Boys Grab Blue Chips For A Song
THE world's most famous investors are using the depressed markets to build up sizable stakes in US blue chips, which have been undervalued due to negative sentiment about the ...
Hedge Fund News: Sears, Julian Robertson, Steve Cohen
Sears Holding Company has had its membership in the S&P 500 revoked.
Hedge Fund News: Steven Mandel, Sam Israel, John Paulson
According to a 13G just filled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Steven Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital LLC has now owns 8,645,289 shares of Verisign, Inc.
Warren Buffett News: Downturn Can Fire The Entrepreneurial Spirit
It's about time we gave thanks for recession.
Hedge Fund News: Chase Coleman, Dan Loeb, Bill Ackman
New York star hedgie Chase Coleman is on his way to a standout year — but a good chunk of his returns are supported by one very Main Street investment: Apple.
Hedge Fund News: Carl Icahn, John Paulson, Bill Ackman
Activist investor Carl Icahn agreed to allocate as much as $3 billion to a management duo composed of his son, Brett, and David Schechter, expanding their role in running the ...
Hedge Fund News: Prudential, Jim Rogers, George Soros
Prudential Financial has hired a hedge fund economist to boost its emerging markets credit capabilities.
Hedge Fund News: John Thaler, Steven Cohen, Nouriel Roubini
Hedge fund managers represent 6% of the 200 most active art collectors in the world, according to ARTnews. Leading that group of hard-core collectors is Steven A.
Hedge Fund News: Goldman Sachs, Bernard Madoff, Bill Ackman
New York City, embracing an experimental mechanism for financing social services that has excited and worried government reformers around the world, will allow Goldman Sachs to...
Hedge Fund News: Carl Icahn, John Paulson, Julian Williams
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn, who took over CVR Energy Inc.
Hedge Fund News: Paul Tudor Jones, Randy Smith, OrbiMed
The European arm of the Tudor Group, the US hedge fund founded by Paul Tudor Jones II, paid its staff a bumper $62m last year after a profitable 2011, despite the travails of ...
Hedge Fund News: Bill Gross, Kenneth Dart, Argonaut Capital
On a scorching April morning in Monterrey, Mexico, Enrique Garcia, Vitro SAB’s local plant manager, crosses under a mural that commemorates the 100th anniversary of the company...
Hedge Fund News: Cliff Asness, John Arnold, David Einhorn
It is the latest in-vogue accessory among hedge-fund managers: a "masked fund." Bridgewater Associates has "ZQPGGAV00000," John Paulson has "Paulson Fund 1" while Cliff Asness...
Hedge Fund News: Jamie Dinan, Julian Robertson, Steven Cohen
The marketing chief of Jamie Dinan’s York Capital Management has left the hedge fund giant to become CEO and president of KVO Capital Management, with the latter renaming itself...
Hedge Fund News: R. Allen Stanford, Ray Dalio, Scopia Capital
Convicted hedge fund fraudster R. Allen Stanford said yesterday that he's no Bernard Madoff, but a federal judge sentenced him to a Madoff-like 110 years in prison, anyway.
Hedge Fund News: Commodities, Garage Sale Find, Reddy Ice Bankruptcy
Hedge funds reduced bullish bets on commodities for a second consecutive week as the Federal Reserve signaled it may refrain from more monetary stimulus, increasing concern that...
Top of the Morning – Soros Buying Farmland, Brian Coats Pleads Guilty
Stuart Varney, host of the aptly named and very highly rated "Varney & Co." program on Fox Business, put the following question to me in his usual direct style: "Will we have ...
Carl Icahn’s Mentor Battle, Hedge Fund Manager Charged In $3.5 Billion Ponzi Scheme
Carl Icahn is embroiled in another Icahn-style battle. This time with Mentor Graphics.
Hedge Fund News: Bruce Berkowitz, Credit Agricole, Hedge Fund Fraud
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