Hedge Fund News: Warren Buffett, Third Point & Soros Fund Management
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.
Posts Tagged ‘UBS AG (UBSN)’
Hedge Fund News: George Soros, Carl Icahn, Telus
THE Reserve Bank of Australia risks provoking market speculators to raise their bets that it will intervene to lower the strong Aussie dollar after it allowed its foreign currency...
Hedge Fund News: George Soros, Seth Klarman, Crispin Odey
Silicon Valley has supported President Barack Obama with huge contributions to the super PAC backing his reelection in the final month before the election.
Hedge Fund News: Marc Faber, David Abrams, Ray Dalio
Central bankers are “counterfeit money printers” and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke should resign for messing up the U.S.
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: Chase Coleman, Dan Loeb, Bill Ackman
New York star hedgie Chase Coleman is on his way to a standout year — but a good chunk of his returns are supported by one very Main Street investment: Apple.
Moody’s Downgrades 15 Major Banks
What other Credit Rating Agencies have been doing one step at a time, Moody’s did that and much more in a single stroke.
Hedge Fund Profit on Defaults, UBS Denies Report, Hedge Fund M&A
WHILE I was at work on a book about the 2008 financial disaster I became interested in a tiny handful of investors who had made their fortunes from the collapse of the sub-prime...
Top of the Morning – Soros Buying Farmland, Brian Coats Pleads Guilty
Stuart Varney, host of the aptly named and very highly rated "Varney & Co." program on Fox Business, put the following question to me in his usual direct style: "Will we have ...
Kweku Adoboli Charges Modified to Include Falsification As Case Turns Criminal
Bloomberg reports that the charges against Kweku Adoboli, the ex-UBS AG (USBN) trader accused of costing the company over $2.3 billion from unauthorized trades are now being modified...
Top of the Morning – UBS Chief Sergio P. Ermotti Pushes for Cuts
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Top of the Morning – UBS Downgraded, Zynga $ZNGA IPO
Fitch Ratings fired a warning shot at European and U.S.
Sergio Ermotti – UBS Successor – May Cut Investment
Sergio Ermotti, the heir apparent for UBS's leadership, will likely be tasked with slashing the investment aspect of the company in order to refocus on wealth management.
Top of the Morning: Unauthorized Trading, Groupon’s IPO, Goldman’s Computer-Trading Head, Europe Lending, Home-Equity Loans
Kweku Adoboli, a 31 year old trader, has been arrested over a rogue trading binge that resulted in a $2 Billion loss for his employer, UBS.
