Hedge Fund Founder Looking To Buy Tampa Bay Rays For $1.85 Billion (Forbes)
Trip Miller, founder of the Nashville, Tennessee hedge fund Gullane Capital Partners, is trying to put together a group of investors to buy the Tampa Bay Rays for $1.85 billion, multiple sources have told Forbes. Stuart Sternberg, the principal owner of the baseball team, led a partnership that purchased the Rays for $200 million in 2004. It is believed Sternberg owns 49% of the Rays. Sports bankers say it is not clear that Sternberg is looking to sell the team and believe he may be testing the market.
Rising the Ranks at Citadel Securities: How This 31-Year-Old Rose from Intern to Head of Foreign Exchange in 5 Years (Business Insider)
How does one go from being an intern to leading a two dozen-person trading desk for one of the world’s biggest, most influential financial firms in just five years? Just ask Soeren Kuenzel, the head of foreign-exchange trading at Citadel Securities who’s now responsible for billions in complicated currency trades at just 31 years old. Kuenzel, a former competitive gymnast, says it all started with a campus poster advertising a contest. It was January 2017, and Kuenzel was completing his doctorate in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He wasn’t looking for a job in finance. He had already had stints at Facebook and Apple and had his sights set on becoming a professor.
Odey Asset Management Suspends Further Funds After Investor Flight (Reuters)
Odey Asset Management has suspended further funds after increased investor redemptions, letters posted on the fund’s website showed. The hedge fund, once run by one of Britain’s best known star managers, Crispin Odey, has grappled with investor flight after the founder became the focus of sexual misconduct allegations in media reports last week. The Financial Times and Tortoise Media, in a joint publication on June 8, reported allegations by 13 women that Odey – one of Britain’s best-known hedge fund managers – had sexually assaulted or harassed them over a 25-year period.
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Billionaire George Soros has Spent Millions Electing Woke Prosecutors Upending America’s Justice System. Now, as His ‘Political’ Heir Takes Over his $25B Empire, Biographer MATT PALUMBO Reveals the Full Truth the Mainstream Media won’t Tell You (DailyMail.co.uk)
Matt Palumbo is author of ‘The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros‘. Alexander Soros is officially taking over his father George’s kingdom. And along with more money than God, Alex inherits an empire of influence rivaling governments and reaching beyond national borders. For the non-profit philanthropy, Open Society Foundation (OSF), created by the now 92-year-old financial wizard and funded by a $25 billion war chest, is far more than a simple charity. As I documented in my book ‘The Man Behind the Curtain: Inside the Secret Network of George Soros,’ OSF has been wielded as one of the most powerful progressive forces in the world, active in over 120 countries.
NFT Artwork Owned by Three Arrows Capital Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s (Decrypt.co)
Ringers #879, a generative piece of blockchain artwork by Dmitri Cherniak that’s commonly known as “The Goose” among NFT enthusiasts, sold at a Sotheby’s auction today for just over $6.2 million including auction house fees. The piece has quite a history. In 2021, it was purchased by now-defunct cryptocurrency hedge fund Three Arrows Capital for a whopping $5.66 million worth of ETH. “The Goose” has since been connected to Three Arrows’ Starry Night Capital fund, which sought to assemble “the world’s finest collection of NFTs.”
