Brevan Howard Asset Management is again backing Adam Fisher, a global-macro manager whose capital-raising efforts appear to be rapidly gaining momentum.
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December 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON (Reuters) - Elliott Management, Paul Singer’s $35 billion hedge fund, kept up its blistering pace of pushing for corporate changes during the third quarter, outspending...
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October 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
T. Boone Pickens, the wildcatter “Oracle of Oil,” hedge fund founder and philanthropist who rewrote the playbook for corporate raiders, has died. He was 91.
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September 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Pershing Square bucks a down market with August gains.
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September 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Star fund manager Michael Platt has been named the City’s richest hedgie for the fifth year in a row, after his wealth surged by £700 million.
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May 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Shares of Cerner are up 20% this year but the medical records company can still rise much further as it is still cheap, activist investor Jeff Smith said Tuesday.
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April 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
AQR Capital Management (AQR) has established an office in Frankfurt, Germany.
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April 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Shares of health care technology provider Cerner (CERN) jumped Tuesday after the company said it had reached an agreement with activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP to appoint...
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April 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON (Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP said on Friday it will no longer urge shareholders to oppose Bristol-Myers Squibb Co’s plans to buy Celgene Corp, even...
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March 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A Texas judge Tuesday dismissed a bondholder lawsuit against Neiman Marcus Group over the company’s transfer of its MyTheresa e-commerce business beyond the reach of bondholders...
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March 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Warren Buffett is possibly the financial world's most vocal critic of hedge funds.
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March 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
For a company owner, a clean sale is usually preferable to the rigmarole of going public.
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March 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
After seeing a "significant risk" of a recession only a month ago, the manager of the world's largest hedge fund has lowered his odds of an economic downturn, now that the Federal...
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February 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bank of America Merrill Lynch's top equity derivatives boss in the Americas is leaving after less than two years, and he's headed for the hedge fund LMR Partners.
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February 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Billionaire investor Steve Cohen’s Point72 Ventures has invested in a U.S.
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February 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Baker Bros. Advisors LP, a hedge fund known for making big biotechnology bets, looks to have relinquished its stake in Sage Therapeutics Inc.
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February 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Sears Holdings Corp. Chairman Eddie Lampert won the support of the U.S.
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February 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Allergan shares rose Tuesday after renowned hedge fund manager David Tepper increased his pressure on the drugmaker, calling for the company to jump-start the business with new...
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February 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Embattled pizza chain Papa John's has struck a deal with activist hedge fund Starboard Value in what it hopes may bring an end to a rocky few months that included a public battle...
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February 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Seth Klarman, a hedge fund billionaire some call the next Warren Buffett, wrote a sobering letter warning his investors of the economic impact of global tension, rising debt and...
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January 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Jeffrey Vinik, who just announced the revival of his hedge fund after a stellar career of stock picking, doesn’t see any opportunity in cannabis stocks.
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January 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Activist investor Starboard Value LP has taken a stake in Dollar Tree Inc. and is pushing the retailer to sell its Family Dollar business and tweak its pricing model.
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January 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Starboard Value initiated a 9.8% activist stake in Magellan Health (MGLN). The details of the filing can be seen below.
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December 14 - Hedge Funds
Last month activist hedge fund Starboard Value disclosed a 5.8% stake in Symantec Corp (NASDAQ:SYMC). It paid around $20 per share for 36 million shares of the company.
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September 18 - Hedge Funds, News
(Reuters) - Hedge fund Starboard Value LP has nominated five directors to Symantec’s (SYMC.O) board after taking a 5.8 percent stake in the cybersecurity firm, it said on Thursday...
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August 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Consumer products maker Newell Brands Inc (NWL.N) has agreed to add three independent directors to its board, including one proposed by hedge fund Starboard Value ...
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April 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Blue Harbour Group chief executive Cliff Robbins revealed a new investment in Open Text Corp, a maker of enterprise software based in Canada.
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April 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund Folger Hill Asset Management is merging with Schonfeld Strategic Advisors and returning capital to certain investors in May, according to an investor letter sent Tuesday...
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April 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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April 6 - Hedge Funds
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management is facing more bad news as many of the institutional investors in its private funds have asked to redeem their money.
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April 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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April 4 - Hedge Funds
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March 26 - Hedge Funds
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March 22 - Hedge Funds
(Reuters) - Four of Starboard Value’s nominees to Newell Brands Inc’s (NWL.N) board of directors withdrew their nominations, a day after the company rebuffed the activist ...
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March 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Douglas Haynes, president of Point72, resigned on Friday, a person with knowledge of the matter said.
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March 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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March 15 - Hedge Funds
(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
Steve Cohen is revamping his big data operation again at Point72 Asset Management.
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March 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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March 2 - Hedge Funds
Adage Capital Management, a $30 billion hedge fund founded by two former money managers from Harvard University’s endowment, beat a benchmark stock index last year.
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February 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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February 23 - Hedge Funds
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February 22 - Hedge Funds
Starboard Value, run by Jeffrey Smith, is one of the most famous activist hedge funds and is well known to the investment community.
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February 15 - Hedge Funds, News
Just as billionaire Steven Cohen stages a comeback as a hedge fund manager, a current employee sued his Point72 Asset Management accusing it of discriminating against women and...
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February 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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February 6 - Hedge Funds
Larry Robbins gives out “gag awards” to the kids he coaches in hockey, but not to employees at Glenview Capital Management.
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February 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
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January 24 - Hedge Funds
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January 23 - Hedge Funds
(Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Starboard Value LP has started a proxy fight on Wednesday for control of Mellanox Technologies Ltd (MLNX.O), calling the Israeli chipmaker deeply...
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January 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
