Steve Cohen was unmasked by Artnet as the mystery buyer of a Jeff Koons rabbit sculpture last week in New York for $91 million, a record for a living artist at auction.
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May 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
All the tensions that have rattled Brazil traders over the past few weeks have done nothing to shake Teresa Barger’s optimism over the country.
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April 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin said Amazon’s decision to pull out of New York City is “heartbreaking,” and the political climate “dramatically” reduced his...
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March 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON (Reuters) - Citadel, one of the world’s biggest hedge funds, on Thursday told investors and employees it plans to shut down its Aptigon Capital equities unit and that...
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March 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
NEW YORK, Feb 26 (Reuters) - The trial of former Platinum Partners chief Mark Nordlicht and other executives of the now-defunct hedge fund group accused of defrauding investors...
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February 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire activist investor Carl Icahn is building a stake in casino company Caesars Entertainment, sources familiar with the situation said.
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January 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Daniel Loeb's hedge fund, Third Point, has trimmed the number of nominees it is making to the Campbell Soup board to five, sources tell CNBC.
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November 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire Ken Griffin hired two veteran money managers from Louis Bacon’s hedge fund as he seeks to build a rival macro business.
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October 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
TOKYO—New York-based hedge fund King Street Capital Management LP has proposed new independent directors at Toshiba Corp., according to people familiar with the matter, the ...
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August 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Bloomberg) -- Hedge fund manager Jason Mudrick was already thinking about suing Globalstar Inc.
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July 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge-fund manager Leon Cooperman is returning outside investor capital at year-end.
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July 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos says he is betting that the stocks of physican practice management companies Mednax (MD.N) and Envision Healthcare (EVHC.N) ...
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July 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Citadel, the more than $30 billion hedge fund managed by billionaire Ken Griffin, is outperforming the industry and the broader markets so far this year.
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July 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
SEOUL (Reuters) - New York-based hedge fund Mason Capital Management has filed a legal claim seeking at least $175 million from the South Korean government as compensation for...
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July 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. and Mediapro have discussed the possibility of the U.S.
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May 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Michael Platt of BlueCrest Capital cemented his position atop the list of highest-earning hedge fund managers, taking home a cool $2 billion in earnings in 2017.
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May 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire investor Dan Loeb said he’s increasing his short bets in anticipation of more market disruption.
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May 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The Securities and Exchange Commission settled charges on Tuesday with Visium Asset Management LP, a New York-based hedge fund advisory firm, for insider trading by its privately...
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May 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
George Soros called cryptocurrencies a bubble in January. Now his $26 billion family office is planning to trade digital assets.
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April 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass said possible U.S.
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March 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Adage Capital Management, a $30 billion hedge fund founded by two former money managers from Harvard University’s endowment, beat a benchmark stock index last year.
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February 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Even as the stock market capped off a third day of gains following a foray into correction territory last week, safe-haven assets are enjoying a moment in the sun.
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February 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
There are many great investors, who manage some of the best-performing funds and have built massive fortunes while managing their clients' money.
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February 12 - Hedge Funds, News
LONDON (Reuters) - News that billionaire financier George Soros is a backer of a campaign group seeking to keep Britain in the EU added fire to Britain’s Brexit debate on Thursday...
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February 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Organizers of the annual gala for the Museum of American Finance said they were glad it hadn’t been scheduled for Monday, when the Dow plunged 1,175 points.
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February 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
2017 was a great year for defense stocks, some of them rising as much as 30% by the end of December.
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February 7 - Hedge Funds, News
The biotech sector is well known for its M&A activity, but billionaire fund managers don’t seem to be attracted by the frenzy.
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February 5 - Hedge Funds, News
Hedge fund manager Bruce Berkowitz came out swinging against Sears after quietly leaving its board of directors four months ago.
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February 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Is oil a good bet for 2018? Hedge funds seem to think so according to a recent report by Bloomberg. They are betting heavily on a continued uptrend in oil prices.
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February 2 - Hedge Funds, News
For a very long-time Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) has been dominating the hedge fund popularity rankings. Things changed a bit recently. Apple Inc.
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February 23 - Hedge Funds, Lists, News
Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management returned about 1 percent in 2016, the second-worst annual performance ever for the billionaire investor, according to people familiar ...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds
According to a recent 13G filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group acquired 3.19 million Class A shares of Trivago...
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December 27 - Hedge Funds
Ken Griffin ranks tenth in our list of most successful investors in the world, based on their net worth. He founded Citadel Investment Group in 1990.
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December 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Hedge-fund manager Jamie Dinan is ending 2016 the way he started it: eating humble pie.
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December 20 - Hedge Funds
What is the best financial stock to buy right now? With the Fed recently raising rates for the second time, it may be a good idea to check out some companies like Bank of America...
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December 18 - Hedge Funds, News, Quantitative Investing
In a yesterday article we analyzed four stocks, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, and Alphabet, from the perspective of six quantitative hedge funds.
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December 18 - Hedge Funds, News, Quantitative Investing
Ray Dalio, founder of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, said President-elect Donald Trump's policies would have a "broadly positive" effect on the U.S.
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November 15 - Hedge Funds
These 10 most successful investors in the world don’t have much in common aside from their obscene net worths.
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November 2 - ETF Trading, Hedge Funds, Lists, News
Citadel Advisors, helmed by billionaire Ken Griffin, has taken a huge stake in video game developer Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. (NASDAQ:TTWO).
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October 20 - Hedge Funds, News
Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass expressed frustration that the U.S.
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October 6 - Hedge Funds
While many hedge funds were deep in the red in 2015, Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group posted double-digit returns.
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September 21 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group recently filed a Form 13G in which it reported raising its stake in Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corp (NASDAQ:ITEK) to 1.88 million...
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August 30 - Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire hedge fund boss Bill Ackman told CNBC on Friday the past 12 months were the "worst period of performance" of his investment career, and the implosion of Valeant Pharmaceuticals...
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August 26 - Hedge Funds
On Fridays, John Hempton decamps to the solitude of his Sydney beach house, where the locals know nothing of his quirky stock research and focus on sniffing out fraud.
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July 11 - Hedge Funds
One of the largest alternative asset management firms in the world, billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group has been quietly reducing its exposure to U.S equities since...
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May 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
In a recent 13G filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, billionaire Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group reported a passive stake in Peabody Energy Corporation...
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March 8 - Hedge Funds, News
Given the volatile nature of the markets, investors should pay attention to the latest moves made by elite hedge funds and other investors in their conviction picks, to get a ...
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February 22 - Hedge Funds, News
Billionaire Ken Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group has filed its latest 13F with the SEC, revealing a U.S equity portfolio worth $103.8 billion for the reporting period of September...
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November 18 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
Citadel Investment Group, a Chicago, Illinois-based hedge fund, was founded by Billionaire Ken Griffin in November, 1990. Mr.
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August 17 - Hedge Fund Analysis, Hedge Funds, News
In its latest filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, Ken Griffin's Citadel Investment Group disclosed reducing its stake in Seritage Growth Properties (NYSE:SRG...
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July 24 - News