Activist fund ValueAct Capital Management LP said it’s looking forward to the opportunity to vote for new directors of Seven & i Holdings Co.
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April 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Tiger Global Management’s hedge fund gained just 0.4% in July, narrowing its loss this year to 49.8%, according to people familiar with the returns.
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August 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
July 14 (Reuters) - Hedge fund Ides Capital on Thursday asked U.S.
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July 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund manager and Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio on Tuesday offered his take on whether raising interest rates could help improve the economy.
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June 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Kellner Capital, a hedge fund with a strong focus on merger arbitrage opportunities, is marking its 40th anniversary.
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May 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bridgewater Associates (Bridgewater), a global leader in institutional portfolio management and the largest hedge fund in the world, has launched a new sustainable investing venture...
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April 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
U.S. hedge fund Tiger Global Management has sold all of its stake in British bank Barclays, according to a report by the Financial Times.
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February 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Although billionaire superinvestor George Soros may no longer be running the day-to-day operations of his namesake fund "Soros Fund Management," the fund's quarterly activity ...
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December 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey, one of the best-known hedge fund managers in Europe, has seen returns at his flagship €1.8 billion ($2.3 billion) hedge fund fall by more than 10% this year, after...
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November 19 - Hedge Funds
The Madison Square Garden Company surprised many on Monday when it announced — besides exploring a potential breakup of itself — that it was adding two financiers to its board...
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October 28 - Hedge Funds
Just in time for the mid-term elections, billionaire philanthropist and retired hedge fund founder Tom Steyer has donated an extra $15 million of his own money in to his super...
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October 27 - Hedge Funds
Bill Ackman wants to clear up a few things.
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October 24 - Hedge Funds
Greg Orman is still being coy about his partisan allegiances, but more high-dollar Democratic donors are lining up behind his independent U.S. Senate run in Kansas.
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October 23 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos on Monday said he is betting against Brazil's national oil company Petroleo Brasileiro Petrobras SA (ADR) (NYSE:PBR), saying it "exists to serve ...
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October 20 - Hedge Funds
The global market for initial public offerings has had a patchy year at best and activist investor Bill Ackman’s latest foray into the arena may not be remembered as a highlight...
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October 13 - Hedge Funds
If billionaire Carl Icahn has a plan to squeeze value out of Talisman Energy Inc.
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October 6 - Hedge Funds
Eric Mindich (Trades, Portfolio), founder of hedge fund Eton Park and famous for becoming at age 27 the youngest partner at Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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October 1 - Hedge Funds
Steve Wynn, the billionaire casino mogul, has filed a lawsuit accusing prominent short-seller Jim Chanos of slander over an alleged statement that Wynn violated a U.S.
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September 26 - Hedge Funds
Avenue Capital Group LLC, the U.S.
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September 23 - Hedge Funds
Fortress Investment Group LLC (NYSE:FIG) gave four of its top executives $63 million in compensation last year.
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September 19 - Hedge Funds
Investing icon Warren Buffett made a bet about the relative performances of hedge funds and index funds, that the latter would beat the former over a decade.
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September 18 - Hedge Funds
In a letter sent to DuPont’s Board of Directors, Trian Fund Management LP urged that DuPont be split up in order to be more competitive.
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September 17 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund ESL Investments has loaned $400 million to its largest investment, Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD), a cash infusion that will keep the struggling retailer ...
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September 16 - Hedge Funds
Long/short European equities funds run by Odey Asset Management, Pelham Capital and GLG Partners – part of Man Group – all found themselves in negative territory this summer...
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September 12 - Hedge Funds
Dinakar Singh's TPG-Axon Capital Management posted slight gains in its main hedge fund in the second quarter.
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September 9 - Hedge Funds
Manhattan US Attorney Preet Bharara has asked the Securities and Exchange Commission to hold off on its decision about former hedge-fund kingpin Steve Cohen for three more months...
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August 27 - Hedge Funds
Every year, when Joel Greenblatt (Trades, Portfolio) kicks off his value and special-situation investing class at Columbia Business School, he makes his students a guarantee.
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August 25 - Hedge Funds
When William Ackman took the stage at the AXA Equitable Auditorium in Midtown Manhattan on April 22, investors were still digesting the news that his firm, Pershing Square Capital...
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August 22 - Hedge Funds
Summer for the well-heeled means posh, star-studded parties at the Hamptons, many for good causes, and the better the causes, the more high-profile the guests.
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August 19 - Hedge Funds
It seems legendary hedge fund billionaire George Soros might be souring in his view on the market outlook for U.S.
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August 15 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire investor George Soros’ family office, Soros Fund Management, has jumped on the divest Israel band wagon.
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August 13 - Hedge Funds
Famous activist investor Carl Icahn was assumed to be one of the forces behind the deal between Dollar Tree, Inc. (NASDAQ:DLTR) and Family Dollar Stores, Inc. (NYSE:FDO).
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August 12 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund ValueAct Capital LLC has taken a $1 billion stake in Rupert Murdoch-controlled film and TV company Twenty-First Century Fox Inc (NASDAQ:FOX), CNBC reported.
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August 11 - Hedge Funds
Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn is struggling to find value amid a five-year stock market rally.
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August 5 - Hedge Funds
Carl Icahn makes more money between sips on his outsized Martinis than most mortals make in a lifetime.
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August 4 - Hedge Funds
Dalio, who has owned a home in Greenwich, turns 65 on Friday. The businessman was born Aug. 1, 1949, in Jackson Heights, Queens, N.Y.
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August 1 - Hedge Funds
New York-based multistrategy hedge fund firm Taconic Capital Advisors is raising money for a new hedge fund, a longer lock-up vehicle that will invest in illiquid situations in...
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July 31 - Hedge Funds
Odey Asset Management has opened an office in Geneva, Switzerland, its first office in the country.
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July 28 - Hedge Funds
Investors have pulled more than $1 billion from Eric Mindich's Eton Park Fund, managed by his New York-based multistrategy hedge fund firm Eton Park Capital Management, since ...
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July 18 - Hedge Funds
Warren Buffett broke his own record by donating $2.8 billion dollars to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and family charities through selling stock.
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July 17 - Hedge Funds
Sothebys (NYSE:BID), the auction house that put activist investor Dan Loeb on the board after he battled with management over performance, has entered into a partnership with ...
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July 14 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio is the king of the rich hedge fund industry.
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July 9 - Hedge Funds
A $4.7 billion hedge fund manager run by a disciple of legendary investor Julian Robertson has in recent weeks substantially increased its stake in Delek US Holdings, becoming...
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July 8 - Hedge Funds
In the midst of the credit crisis, Gabelli Funds had another beast to contend with: claims of market-timing abuses by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
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July 4 - Hedge Funds
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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July 1 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn now has the best bad beat story in poker after exiting the $1 million buy-in Big One for One Drop after just 45 minutes of play.
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June 30 - Hedge Funds
It has been well documented that many of the descendents of Julian Robertson, Jr.'s legendary Tiger Management crowd into the same stocks, especially the high-flying tech, Internet...
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June 27 - Hedge Funds
From 2006-2011, former soap opera star Adriana Ferreyr was the “on-again, off-again” girlfriend of hedge fund manager George Soros.
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June 25 - Hedge Funds
Julian Robertson's Tiger Management LLC has agreed to back startup hedge-fund Kang Global Investors LP with as much as $50 million for its launch at the start of July, according...
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June 23 - Hedge Funds
Ray Dalio, the enigmatic, transcendentally meditating leader of one, if not the, most successful hedge funds in the country, does not tend to brag or boast about, well, anything...
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June 16 - Hedge Funds
