Hedge Fund News: Cliff Asness, David Tepper & Brevan Howard
In a recent pair of articles (part I, part II), hedge-fund magnate Cliff Asness defended high-frequency trading against most of the attacks that have been leveled against it.
Posts Tagged ‘Rajat Gupta’
Hedge Fund News: Julian Robertson, Joel Greenblatt & Warren Buffett
Monday’s market sell-off hit hard many of the stocks that are most popular among hedge funds — especially the Internet and media stocks that have driven the returns of some...
Hedge Fund News: Paul Singer, Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (CMG), Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
Hedge Fund News: Bill Ackman, Canadian Pacific Railway Limited (CP), UBS AG (UBS)
Editor's Note: Related tickers: UBS AG (NYSE:UBS), Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Hedge Fund News: Julian Robertson, Sony Corporation (ADR) (SNE), Herbalife Ltd. (HLF)
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Sony Corporation (ADR) (NYSE:SNE), Herbalife Ltd.
Hedge Fund News: Israel Englander, David Einhorn, Apple Inc. (AAPL)
Imagine that a multibillion-dollar hedge fund is accused of fraud and pays a huge fine to settle with the Securities and Exchange Commission while its famous founder personally...
Hedge Fund News: David Einhorn, Carl Icahn, Citigroup
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn raised concerns about the U.S.
Hedge Fund News: John Paulson, Julian Robertson, Blackstone
The gift from John Paulson, of Paulson & Co, is thought to be the largest ever given to a public park.
Hedge Fund News: Bruce Kovner, Noam Gottesman, Nouriel Roubini
Caxton Associates LP plans to lower the fees it charges clients of its $7.5 billion hedge fund, a sign that even veteran money managers are bowing to investor pressure amid lackluster...
Hedge Fund News: Mitt Romney, Ricky Sandler, Louis Bacon
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 ...
Hedge Fund News: David Einhorn, Mitt Romney, Philip Falcone
David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital posted a 4 percent gain in August. This put the hedge fund manager up 9.7 percent for the year to date.
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.
Hedge Fund News: Citadel, Ray Dalio, Mitt Romney
Chicago-based asset manager Citadel has hired a new a managing director and head of Americas distribution, as the firm seeks to capitalise on the strong recent performance of ...
Hedge Fund News: Barton Biggs, John Griffin, Jim Rogers
Ex-Morgan Stanley strategies and hedge fund manager Barton Biggs died on Saturday, according to various media reports.
Warren Buffett News: The Secrets to Building a Lucky Network
Psst, I want to rig the price of a company's shares. Buying 100 million of them, I place an order with a broker who works for a rogue cartel.
Hedge Fund News: George Soros, William Ackman, Carl Icahn
A settlement announced Sunday will bring $405 million to victims of Bernard Madoff's historic investment scam, the state attorney general said.
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: Stanley Fink, David Einhorn, Carlson Capital
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR.N), the private equity company, has bought hedge fund money manager Prisma Capital Partners LP, marking the latest move by the private equity sector...
Hedge Fund News: Louis Bacon, Man Group, Navistar International
New York hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon announced his intentions Friday to donate 90,000 acres of land in Colorado toward the creation of the Sangre de Cristo Conservation...
Hedge Fund News: Eric Mindich, Steven Cohen, Paul Sinclair
Hedge-fund manager Paul Sinclair is the latest casualty of Europe’s sovereign-debt turmoil, almost six thousand miles away from the epicenter of the crisis.
Hedge Fund News: Steven Cohen, Ray Dalio, Bill Ackman
Hedge-fund manager Paul Singer appears to have fallen short in his effort to pass a state law aimed at bolstering his firm's long-running effort to collect on Argentina's unpaid...
Hedge Fund News: Brevan Howard, Kenneth Griffin, Man Group
The head of a joint venture between Samena Capital and Reyl & Cie says the global crisis was tough, but produced good hedge seeding opportunities in Asia.
Hedge Fund News: Dan Loeb, David Einhorn, Ken Griffin
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), the fifth- biggest U.S. bank by assets, is in talks to sell its hedge-fund administration unit to State Street Corp.
Hedge Fund News: Mohnish Pabrai, Eric Sprott, Paul Singer
Celebrity financier Arpad Busson has been mulling a sale of EIM, the hedge fund investor he founded in the 1990s, for several months but buyers with pockets as big as the firm...
Hedge Fund News: John Burbank, Julian Robertson, Ray Dalio
Blackstone Group has raised its exposure to former Citadel trader Nick Taylor by putting up another $50 million to co-invest with his Asia-focused hedge fund, sources said, a ...
Hedge Fund News: Warren Buffett, Jim Chanos, Alan Howard
Smaller-sized hedge funds are increasingly throwing in the towel in Asia as they struggle to attract money from risk-wary institutional investors, casting a cloud over prospects...
Hedge Fund News: T. Boone Pickens, Josh Fink, George Kellner
Prosecutors in the insider-trading trial of Rajat Gupta have suggested he leaked information about Goldman Sachs to convicted hedge fund billionaire Raj Rajaratnam because he ...
Hedge Fund News: Andreas Halvorsen, George Soros, Raj Rajaratnam
The Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned Alberto Micalizzi, whose hedge fund racked up hundreds of millions of dollars of losses in the credit crisis, and handed him...
Hedge Fund News: Scott Rothstein, Warren Buffett, Barton Biggs
Hedge funds turned their backs on Johnson & Johnson and Amazon.com Inc in the last months, kicking the former market darlings into a group where they see stock prices dropping...
Hedge Fund News: Buffett & State Street, George Soros, Marc Faber’s Outlook…
Bloomberg's Betty Liu and Dominic Chu report that Warren Buffett, the former hedge fund manager who built Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
Hedge Fund January Performance, Insider Trading Cases, Soros, Ackman…
Mark Jurish, chief executive officer of Larch Lane Advisors, talks about hedge fund industry performance and strategy.
Hedge Fund News, John Taylor, Kyle Bass, Insider Trading Case, Etc…
John Taylor, founder of currency- hedge fund FX Concepts LLC, said he’s betting against the dollar after Federal Reserve policy makers extended their pledge to keep interest...
SEC Expands Insider Trading Charges Against Rajat Gupta
The SEC have expanded their insider trading case against Rajat Gupta, "charging him with passing tips to convicted hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam much earlier than alleged ...
Hedge Fund News, TPG Buys GlobeOp, Warren Buffett, George Soros, Super PAC, Etc…
TPG Capital LLP agreeed to buy GlobeOp Financial Services SA, a hedge fund administrator, for about 508 million pounds ($800 million).
Hedge Fund News: Bluecrest, Japan’s Debt, Jim Rogers, Stock Picks…
Troy Gayeski, senior portfolio manager at SkyBridge Capital LLC, discusses liquidity conditions for hedge funds and high-yield bonds, and efforts by the U.S.
Bridgewater Returns 23%, David Einhorn Insider Trading Case
Texas’s Permanent School Fund may hire in-house money managers to oversee its $25 billion in assets because returns are being “eaten alive” by hedge-fund fees, according...
Icahn Said to Buy LightSquared Debt, Seth Klarman Invests In Europe, Greece Nears Debt Deal, Etc…
Billionaire Carl Icahn has purchased debt from Philip Falcone’s LightSquared Inc.’s bondholders as the satellite-broadband-service provider struggles to start service, two...
Prosecutors Allege Gupta Told Rajaratnam About $PG Sale of Folgers
Prosecutors in the Rajat Gupta case said in court yesterday that "former McKinsey & Co.
Elliott Sells Relativity Media Stake, Cohen Adds Member, Seth Klarman’s Mega-Quarry Investment, Sprint Invests In Lightsquared
Hedge funds sank almost 5% last year amidst market volatility and the European sovereign debt crisis.
Rajaratnam Fined $92.8M, Citi Launches 3.0, Distressed Debt
A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the convicted hedge fund titan Raj Rajaratnam to pay a $92.8 million penalty, the largest ever assessed against a person in a Securities and...
The Realities of Prosecuting Rajat Gupta – No Proof, No Profit
Rajat Gupta surrendered to the FBI over insider trading charges Wednesday morning.
Raj Rajaratnam Faces New Insider Trading Charges
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 2009," reports FuturesMag.
Rajaratnam Interview Comments ‘Inaccurate” Says FBI
Raj Rajaratnam allowed Newsweek to interview him. It was his first interview since his arrest two years ago.
Rajat Gupta Surrendered to FBI Over Insider Trading Charges
Rajat Gupta surrendered Wednesday morning to Federal Bureau of Investigation officials over charges of insider trading reports the New York Times.
Raj Rajaratnam Says He Was Offered Deal to Cooperate Against Rajat Gupta
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 his arrest to Newsweek.
Insider Trading, HighBridge, Baystar, Paul Capital
The former McKinsey executive, Rajat Gupta, passed along information he gleaned while serving on the boards of Goldman Sachs and Procter & Gamble.
