Daniel Weiss is a renowned American art historian and serves as the President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City.
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February 2 - News - Comments
Solar-powered weather stations that beam real-time information to farmers are the first investment for Galvanize Climate Solutions, the fund launched last year by billionaire ...
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July 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Tom Steyer, the former hedge fund executive, billionaire, and Democratic presidential candidate has become one of the leading activist investors on climate change.
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November 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman gave new hints at which companies he may target with his record-breaking blank-check firm.
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October 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Jeff Ubben wants you to know he’s sorry.
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September 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Former Democratic presidential hopeful Tom Steyer isn’t too happy with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) temporary rollback of environmental laws amid the coronavirus...
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March 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global Investors made money in its main hedge fund last month, according to a person with knowledge of the matter.
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March 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Disgruntled investors, including hedge fund Aurelius Capital Management, have ignited a fresh legal battle over Nine West Holdings Inc.
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February 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The bank’s hedge fund unit has recruited a former investor at Point72 for an absolute return strategy that will consider climate change.
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February 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
By pulling its money from Element Capital, fund-of-funds operator Evanston Capital removed the largest position in its portfolio - and a significant contributor to its returns...
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February 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
As WWE’s stock begins to stabilize amid a steady decline that burned several investors, who once upon a time saw its share price skyrocket to $100, top investor Stephen Mandel...
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February 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The potential sale of the New York Mets to Steve Cohen, a billionaire hedge fund manager, is all but dead, Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred said Thursday.
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February 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Pierre Andurand, one of the oil market’s last remaining hedge fund managers, posted his second consecutive annual loss with a 7.1% decline in 2019, according to people familiar...
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January 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Tiger Global Management has closed on a $3.75 billion private-equity fund, the latest sign of investors’ continued interest in private technology companies despite worries about...
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January 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Investor Jeffrey Ubben, already betting there is money to be made from coaxing corporations into being better citizens, gained an ally on Tuesday when BlackRock...
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January 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Tom Steyer, a California businessman, jumped into the 2020 race with little political track record beyond supporting campaigns on climate change, youth activism and the impeachment...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
PointState Capital, the macro hedge fund started by former traders for billionaire Stan Druckenmiller, is blocking investors who ask to pull their money out from getting their...
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January 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Bill Ackman's hedge fund is on track to land massive returns after three years of negative net performance.
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January 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The legendary investor Warren Buffett thinks that companies shouldn't assign their investors' cash to social causes and should instead focus on what would most benefit the shareholders...
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January 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Point72, Renaissance Technologies, and Millennium are Trying to Make Quant Strategies Work in Bond Markets.
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December 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
The pain kept coming for hedge funds in 2019: if they weren’t being killed off, they were bleeding cash or wringing out dismal returns.
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December 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
CEDAR RAPIDS - California businessman Tom Steyer says he plans to spend at least $100 million on his campaign for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination.
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December 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Andy Redleaf founded a $6 billion hedge fund. Now he runs a small community bank. In many ways, Andy Redleaf was a quintessential hedge fund manager.
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December 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citi Group (C.N) and hedge fund ValueAct Capital said on Thursday they would extend an existing information-sharing agreement for another two years through...
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December 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
IOWA CITY, Iowa - Billionaire Tom Steyer is trying to turn his biggest weaknesses into strengths in the Democratic presidential contest, saying his past experience managing a ...
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December 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
LONDON (Reuters) - Monaco-based hedge fund Tyrus Capital said on Monday it had agreed to buy the UK-based business of Tyndaris LLP for an undisclosed sum in a deal that will nearly...
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December 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
BlueCrest Capital Management is suing two former traders who say they were forced to leave when the hedge fund’s billionaire owner, Michael Platt, described the equity trading...
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December 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
PointState Capital LP was hit with about $1 billion in redemptions this year through September, said people familiar with the matter, as the New York hedge fund faces the prospect...
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November 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
PointState Capital, the macro hedge fund started by former traders for billionaire Stan Druckenmiller, is looking for new investors as it struggles to rebound from last year’...
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November 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Ken Griffin promoted James Yeh to president and co-chief investment officer at Citadel, tapping a longtime partner to help run the fast-growing hedge fund firm alongside him.
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November 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
(Reuters) - Whitebox Advisors LLC, a credit-focused hedge fund, has been quietly capitalizing on Wall Street’s ambivalence toward gun manufacturers by replacing some banks as...
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November 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire Ken Fisher made his name and fortune picking stocks.
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November 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
BOSTON (Reuters) - A Fidelity Investments spokesman said on Monday it has dropped Fisher Investments as a money manager over allegedly sexist comments the firm’s leader Kenneth...
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October 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman took aim on Wednesday at what an Elizabeth Warren presidency would mean for the stock market.
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October 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
PARIS (Reuters) - Activist shareholder Amber Capital, which is being sued by Lagardere (LAGA.PA), said on Monday the lawsuit was baseless and it would continue to seek strategy...
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October 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass, a longtime China critic, told CNBC on Monday that President Donald Trump needs to avoid striking a deal with Beijing solely for agricultural purchases...
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September 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
When President Trump returns to New York City to speak at the United Nations next week, he will be having a fundraiser at the luxurious Upper East Side townhouse of legendary ...
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September 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge-fund billionaire Ray Dalio seems to be enjoying semi-retirement - and living it up at the famous Burning Man festival, which recently wrapped up.
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September 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
New York hedge fund Saba Capital Management is embroiled in separate fights with two large Wall Street asset managers and a well-known law firm over the obscure mechanics of closed...
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August 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
(CNN) Tom Steyer's strategy did not appear to pay off.
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August 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Criticism can be a tough thing to stomach. But according to Ray Dalio, founder of the world’s largest hedge fund, it’s not something to be shied away from.
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August 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio knows plenty about success: He founded Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund with roughly $160 billion in assets.
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August 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Apparently running for president is not a valid excuse for getting out of jury duty.
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August 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Dmitry Balyasny's hedge fund has cut its 10-person Synthesis team, which uses a mix of quant and fundamental stock-picking techniques and ran a $2.5 billion book of business, ...
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August 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Sprott Asset Management (SAM) is to acquire Tocqueville Asset Management’s gold strategy asset management business, with Tocqueville gold investment team comprised of Senior...
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August 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
A recent example of activist success in Europe came on Monday in the form of a proposed merger between Just Eat and Takeaway.com to form a £9 billion ($10 billion) food delivery...
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July 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Ken Griffin’s $32 billion hedge fund is backing efforts to make the Treasury market safer and sounder through the backstop of a central clearinghouse.
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July 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
WHP Global (WHP), a new brand management platform led by Chairman & CEO Yehuda Shmidman has launched backed by a USD200 million equity commitment from funds managed by Oaktree...
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July 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
Bill Ackman’s publicly-traded Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. has an activist of its own.
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July 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments
It’s been the best start to a year for hedge funds in a decade, and the returns for the biggest multi-strategy money managers are in.
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July 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading - Comments