Hedge Fund - Paulson & Co

John Paulson, the billionaire hedge fund manager, will be forever known on Wall Street as the man who made nearly billions shorting subprime mortgages.

Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros made some bold statements in an interview with the Financial Times, saing that Germany must either lead the Eurozone out of recession or leave the ...

One year ago Assets at Marc Lasry’s Avenue Capital Group dipped to $12.3 billion by midyear 2011, from $18 billion just six months earlier, as the firm had been liquidating a private equity vehicle ...

Believe it or not, the housing crash wasn't all heartache and tears. When the mortgage bubble burst a few select investors made a boatload. One of them was hedge fund titan John A. Paulson.

According to 13F filings for the second quarter, D.E. Shaw increased its position in Mylan Inc (NASDAQ:MYL) by 19% between the beginning of April and the end of June to 16.9 million shares.

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.

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Activist investor Carl Icahn agreed to allocate as much as $3 billion to a management duo composed of his son, Brett, and David Schechter, expanding their role in running the 76-year-old's investments...

John Paulson is famous for two big calls: shorting the housing market at the peak of the bubble (which is what originally made him a billionaire and drew media attention), and buying gold in 2009 (which...