American Capital Ltd (ACAS)

Hedge fund managers like David Einhorn, Dan Loeb, or Carl Icahn became billionaires through reaping large profits for their investors, which is why piggybacking their stock picks may provide us with significant...

It's been a choppy year so far for big-dividend Business Development Companies (BDCs).

It's been a quiet morning on Wall Street so far, with the Dow and S&P coming out flat out of the gate and the NASDAQ Composite index up just 14 points.

Famous for his bet against subprime mortgages at the height of the US housing bubble, John Paulson was just another hedge fund manager prior to that.

Andy Redleaf's Whitebox Advisors was in the news earlier this year when it announced the closure of its mutual fund operations after seeing significant redemptions by investors in 2015.

Shareholder activism has been on a surge following the aftermath of the financial crisis and is anticipated to keep expanding despite the somewhat disappointing performance delivered in 2015.

Paul Singer's Elliott Associates has filed a Form 13D on American Capital Ltd. (NASDAQ:ACAS). The filing shows that Mr.

When reports of liquidity drying up in the credit market started emerging last year, most large investors dismissed it as cyclical phenomena and blamed other market players for overreacting.

Numerous financial news websites and stock market participants call activist investors “vultures”, who aim to extract short-term benefits at the expense of companies’ long-term performance.