Bill Ackman is putting a modern-day spin on a centuries-old financial innovation with the special purpose acquisition company he plans to take public.
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July 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
LONDON (Reuters) - London-based Lansdowne Partners is closing its main hedge fund, a long-short strategy that manages $2.8 billion in assets under management, a person familiar...
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July 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Brevan Howard Asset Management’s flagship macro hedge fund lost 0.6% in June, suffering back-to-back monthly losses and giving up some of its record gains from March.
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July 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
AlphaOne Capital Partners founding partner Dan Niles said Tuesday that he has been building short positions over the past couple of weeks in some of the stocks most exposed to...
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June 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Waratah Capital Advisors has launched the firm's second liquid alternative mutual fund, the Waratah Alternative ESG (AESG) Fund.
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June 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
LONDON (Reuters) - Coatue Management and nine other hedge funds likely earned more than 1.5 billion euros ($1.7 billion) this week on bets against Wirecard after the German payments...
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June 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Renowned investor and former Wall Street hedge fund manager, Mike Novogratz recently predicted that Bitcoin could break the $10,000 make and skyrocket to even $20,0000, going ...
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June 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
NEW YORK/BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor William Ackman, whose hedge fund is delivering some of the year’s best returns, said on Monday he was looking to raise $3 billion...
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June 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund firm CQS has slashed at least 50 jobs in an overhaul, as billionaire founder Michael Hintze retrenches to focus on core credit trading strategies.
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June 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Longtime hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones on Wednesday critiqued the long-held belief that companies should exist for the sole purpose of generating profits.
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June 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A Fund Manager Crushing 98% of his Peers Over the Past Half-Decade Told Us 4 Themes He's Betting on and 4 He's Betting Against — and Why the Latest Market Rally Still has Room...
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June 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Kyle Bass is going for broke on a currency trade that has burned bearish speculators for more than three decades.
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June 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
AQR Capital Management (AQR) has launched the AQR Diversifying Strategies Fund, which is designed to be a single solution to gain exposure to liquid alternatives with attractive...
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June 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Pershing Square Holdings (PSH), the investment company investing in Bill Ackman’s long-only hedge fund, has failed to win a place in the FTSE 100 during the latest reshuffle...
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June 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Legendary hedge fund investor Ray Dalio is renowned figure in the world of finance, but is equally famous for his views on life, investing, and much more.
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June 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
BOSTON, June 3 (Reuters) - Hedge fund Citadel, whose flagship portfolio is posting double-digit gains this year, has hired for its investment teams even as many corporations cut...
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June 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The billionaire investor George Soros is not shy about making predictions, in financial markets or otherwise.
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June 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire Alan Howard has doubled his investors’ money in the coronavirus crisis.
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May 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Though the stock market is on the rebound of late as more and more states reopen, hedge fund billionaire Ray Dalio has made it clear that he expects the ongoing coronavirus pandemic...
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May 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Hedge fund Starboard Value LP is close to having eight directors elected to the board of GCP Applied Technologies Inc (GCP.N) at the chemical company’s annual meeting...
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May 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Legendary activist investor Carl Icahn may see his investment in Hertz lose most of its value after the rental car company filed for bankruptcy.
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May 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey, one of Europe’s highest-profile hedge fund managers, said that governments may ban private gold ownership if they lose control of inflation in the wake of the ...
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May 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The bull case for bitcoin as a store of value is simple: at first nobody owns it.
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May 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire investor Howard Marks joined a growing chorus of notable investors in warning that the market rebound has gone too far given the uphill battle of developing a cure...
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May 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Jana Partners’ Barry Rosenstein is a top activist investor in the industry who famously pushed Whole Foods into the arms of e-commerce giant Amazon.
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May 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Trian Partners Chief Executive and billionaire investor Nelson Peltz told CNBC on Thursday that he’s deployed the fund’s capital in new investments amid the broader market...
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May 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
London-based hedge fund Cheyne Capital is planning a new vehicle to buy up debt that’s been excessively punished by the coronavirus selloff, the latest in a number of investment...
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May 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones said Monday the economy would be in a “Second Depression” if the coronavirus pandemic doesn’t get contained in a year.
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May 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Blank-check company Far Point Acquisition Corp (FPAC.N) on Thursday urged its shareholders to vote against the $2.6 billion deal to buy Global Blue after disruptions...
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May 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
It took a thousand extra servers, new trenches for fiber-optic lines and a bunch of rooms at the Four Seasons resort in Palm Beach, Florida, for one of the world’s biggest trading...
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May 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Paul Singer, the hedge-fund billionaire behind Elliot Management, warned last month that the ultimate path of global stock markets is a drop of at least 50% from February highs...
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May 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
When hedge fund stars such as Bill Ackman, Lee Ainslie or Keith Meister speak at conferences, stocks can jump or sink.
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May 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A major new standalone operation in the quant-driven, discretionary global macro space has gone live with the spin-out this month of Maniyar Capital Advisors (MCA) from Tudor ...
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May 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
It's not just Citadel. New York-based hedge fund D. E. Shaw is also continuing to hire staff during the pandemic.
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April 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Eastview Mall, 14 miles southeast of downtown Rochester, New York, was a rare bright spot among regional shopping centers.
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April 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
New York-based Consonance Capital (CCP) announced that its sophomore private equity fund was closed at its hard cap of $856 million.
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April 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
As is true of many, from the president of the United States on down, who enjoy a good courtroom scrape, Highland Capital Management has won some and lost some.
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April 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire Chris Rokos has reopened his hedge fund to take in fresh capital, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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April 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire hedge fund manager Ray Dalio has said that while the coronavirus outbreak is devastating, it may also be a turning point in history - one that could pave the way for...
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April 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager Ali Lumsden gained 73% the last time the mortgage-bond market went into meltdown. This time around, the veteran investor is on the wrong side of the crisis.
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April 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Toscafund Asset Management, Martin Hughes’ long-running equity-focused hedge fund, has appointed Aberdeen Asset Management co-founder Martin Gilbert as chairman.
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April 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
For Jim Simons, history is repeating itself, at least when it comes to meltdowns in the quant fund world.
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April 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Future rises in the cost of natural gas following the recent oil price crash may squeeze utility companies’ profits, with US names potentially proving a lucrative short bet ...
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April 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
LONDON, April 15 (Reuters) - Activist hedge fund Amber Capital on Tuesday urged fellow investors to support proposals to replace the majority of Lagardere’s supervisory board...
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April 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire Chris Rokos’s macro hedge fund had its best month ever, gaining 14% in March amid market chaos fueled by the coronavirus pandemic.
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April 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Oasis Management Co. sees an opportunity to buy Japanese shares at “historically great prices,” thanks to the pandemic-fueled market selloff.
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April 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Americans hurt by the coronavirus pandemic are skipping home-loan payments, and the trusts that own the mortgages are feeling the pain. Opportunistic funds have noticed.
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April 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ray Dalio's flagship hedge fund at Bridgewater Associates ended the first quarter down about 20%, according to people with knowledge of the matter.
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April 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Founder of hedge fund Kynikos Associates and well-known short seller Jim Chanos said on Thursday that he is still betting against Tesla, even after the electric automaker’s ...
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April 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
