Slow Your Judgments on Fast Trading (BloombergView) In a recent pair of articles (part I, part II), hedge-fund magnate Cliff Asness defended high-frequency...
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June 10 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Popular Hedge Fund Stocks in Free Fall (InstitutionalInvestorsAlpha) Monday’s market sell-off hit hard many of the stocks that are most popular among...
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March 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor’s Note: Related tickers: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C...
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July 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor’s Note: Related tickers: UBS AG (NYSE:UBS), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE:JPM), Canadian Pacific Railway Limited...
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June 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor’s Note: Related tickers: Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX), Metlife Inc (NYSE:MET), Verizon Communications Inc...
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May 31 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Editor’s Note: Related tickers: Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:SNE), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), News Corp (NASDAQ:NWS), The Boeing Company (NYSE:BA...
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May 22 - Hedge Funds - Comments
An SEC survivor: Hedge fund thrives after civil charges, as SAC faces heat (NYPost) Imagine that a multibillion-dollar hedge fund is accused of fraud...
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December 12 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Greenlight’s Einhorn questions Fed “spending spree” (Reuters) Hedge fund manager David Einhorn raised concerns about the U.S. central...
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October 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
John Paulson gives $100m to New York’s Central Park (BBC) The gift from John Paulson, of Paulson & Co, is thought to be the largest ever given...
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October 24 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Caxton to Cut Its Fees (WSJ) Caxton Associates LP plans to lower the fees it charges clients of its $7.5 billion hedge fund, a sign that even veteran...
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October 15 - Hedge Funds - Comments
CVR Investors Add Derivative Claims To Ongoing Icahn Battle (Law360) CVR Energy Inc. investors moved again Tuesday to prevent Carl Icahn from gaining...
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October 11 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Secret Footage of Romney Was Filmed at Estate of Sex Party-Throwing Hedge Fund Manager (GAWKER) You know that really damaging hidden camera footage of...
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September 18 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Einhorn’s Greenlight Posts 4 Percent August Gain (InstitutionalInvestor) David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital posted a 4 percent gain in August....
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September 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Mandel’s Lone Pine Buys Over $400M of Verisign Inc. (ValueWalk) According to a 13G just filled with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Steven...
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August 28 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Citadel hires DE Shaw marketer (eFinancialNews) Chicago-based asset manager Citadel has hired a new a managing director and head of Americas distribution...
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July 20 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund manager Barton Biggs dies at age 79 (Opalesque) Ex-Morgan Stanley strategies and hedge fund manager Barton Biggs died on Saturday, according...
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July 17 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Sentinels in India are paid to sleep (DailyMail) Psst, I want to rig the price of a company’s shares. Buying 100 million of them, I place an order...
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July 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund manager to pay $405M to Madoff victims (WSJ) A settlement announced Sunday will bring $405 million to victims of Bernard Madoff’s historic...
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June 25 - Hedge Funds - Comments
York pro to lead rebranded KVO Capital (HFMWeek) The marketing chief of Jamie Dinan’s York Capital Management has left the hedge fund giant to become...
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June 21 - Hedge Funds - Comments
KKR buys hedge fund provider Prisma Capital (Reuters) Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR.N), the private equity company, has bought hedge fund money manager...
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June 19 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge Fund Billionaire Louis Bacon To Donate 90,000 Acres For Colorado Conservation Area (Forbes) New York hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon announced...
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June 18 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Sinclair To Liquidate Hedge Fund After Lacking Edge (Bloomberg) Hedge-fund manager Paul Sinclair is the latest casualty of Europe’s sovereign-debt turmoil...
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June 14 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge Fund Falls Short in Bid for New York Bill (WSJ) Hedge-fund manager Paul Singer appears to have fallen short in his effort to pass a state law aimed...
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June 13 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Asian hedge fund seeders find growth in crisis (Investmenteurope) The head of a joint venture between Samena Capital and Reyl & Cie says the global...
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June 12 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Goldman Sachs May Sell A Hedge Fund Division To State Street (Bloomberg) Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), the fifth- biggest U.S. bank by assets, is in...
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June 11 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Hedge fund firm losing pulling power (Reuters) Celebrity financier Arpad Busson has been mulling a sale of EIM, the hedge fund investor he founded in...
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June 7 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Blackstone ups bet on Asia hedge fund manager Taylor (Reuters) Blackstone Group has raised its exposure to former Citadel trader Nick Taylor by putting...
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June 6 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Ex-Lehman trader quits as Asia hedge funds falter (Reuters) Smaller-sized hedge funds are increasingly throwing in the towel in Asia as they struggle...
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June 4 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Rajat Gupta secretly served Rajaratnam’s hedge fund: Prosecution (Indiatimes) Prosecutors in the insider-trading trial of Rajat Gupta have suggested...
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June 1 - Hedge Funds - Comments
FSA fines hedge fund boss £3 mln (Reuters) The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned Alberto Micalizzi, whose hedge fund racked up hundreds of...
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May 30 - Hedge Funds - Comments
J&J, Amazon on list that hedge funds love to hate (Reuters) Hedge funds turned their backs on Johnson & Johnson and Amazon.com Inc in the last...
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May 24 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Movers & Shakers: Buffett’s Insurance Cash Stalling (Bloomberg) Bloomberg’s Betty Liu and Dominic Chu report that Warren Buffett, the...
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March 5 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Mark Jurish on Hedge Fund Performance, Strategy (Bloomberg) Mark Jurish, chief executive officer of Larch Lane Advisors, talks about hedge fund industry...
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February 8 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
FX Concepts’ Taylor Shorter on Dollar Than Euro on Fed’s Low-Rate Pledge (Bloomberg) John Taylor, founder of currency- hedge fund FX Concepts LLC,...
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February 3 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
The SEC have expanded their insider trading case against Rajat Gupta, “charging him with passing tips to convicted hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam...
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February 2 - Insider Trading - Comments
TPG Capital Agrees to Acquire GlobeOp Financial Services for $800 Million (Bloomberg) TPG Capital LLP agreeed to buy GlobeOp Financial Services SA, a...
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February 1 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Hedge-Fund Liquidity Turned Corner, Says Gayeski (Bloomberg) Troy Gayeski, senior portfolio manager at SkyBridge Capital LLC, discusses liquidity conditions...
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January 30 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Texas Fund ‘Eaten Alive’ by Hedge Fees May Curb Costs by Hiring In-House (Bloomberg) Texas’s Permanent School Fund may hire in-house money managers...
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January 27 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Icahn Said To Buy Lightsquared Debt In Bet On Falcone Venture’s Collapse (Bloomberg) Billionaire Carl Icahn has purchased debt from Philip Falcone’...
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January 20 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Prosecutors in the Rajat Gupta case said in court yesterday that “former McKinsey & Co. chief Rajat Gupta gave convicted insider-trader Raj...
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January 6 - Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge Funds Fall 4.9% As Long/Short, Macro Funds Suffer (FINalternatives) Hedge funds sank almost 5% last year amidst market volatility and the European...
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January 6 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions - Comments
Rajaratnam Ordered to Pay $92.8 Million Penalty (NYT) A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the convicted hedge fund titan Raj Rajaratnam to pay a $92.8...
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November 9 - Hedge Funds - Comments
Rajat Gupta surrendered to the FBI over insider trading charges Wednesday morning. A grand jury charged Gupta with five counts of securities fraud and...
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October 28 - Insider Trading, Uncategorized - Comments
Raj Rajaratnam is in hot water again. The SEC filed new charges against him on Wednesday “after first charging him with insider trading in October...
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October 28 - Insider Trading - Comments
Raj Rajaratnam allowed Newsweek to interview him. It was his first interview since his arrest two years ago. In the interview, Rajaratnam discussed his...
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October 28 - Insider Trading - Comments
Rajat Gupta Faces 5 Counts of Securities Fraud and 1 Count of Conspiracy to Commit (NYTimes) Rajat K. Gupta, a former Goldman Sachs director who surrendered...
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October 26 - News - Comments
Rajat Gupta surrendered Wednesday morning to Federal Bureau of Investigation officials over charges of insider trading reports the New York Times. According...
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October 26 - Insider Trading - Comments
Raj Rajaratnam, the Galleon Group founder who was convicted of insider trading and was sentenced to 11 years this month, gave his first interview since...
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October 25 - Insider Trading - Comments
Insider Trading Case Against Former Goldman Director (Dealbook) The former McKinsey executive, Rajat Gupta, passed along information he gleaned while...
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March 1 - Insider Trading - Comments