Quant pioneer D.E. Shaw & Co. raised more than $450 million for its first dedicated private equity fund, just shy of the $500 million target it set a year ago.
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February 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones likened Jerome Powell’s war against inflation to an attempt at a perfect moon landing, saying the Federal Reserve chair is facing the...
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January 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital climbed 36.6% last year, finally recouping losses that his flagship fund had posted since 2015.
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January 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager and activist investor, has an alternative idea to fight inflation: Increase immigration.
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September 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Phil King’s ambitious hedge fund group Regal Partners has emerged with a 5.5 per cent stake in the Kerr Neilson-founded Platinum Asset Management, in a shock twist for the consolidating...
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September 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Atlant Opportunity, the largest fund under the umbrella of Swedish asset manager Atlant Fonder with about €395 million under management, has been...
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March 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Michael Platt’s wealth swelled even further last year as the billionaire continues to outperform most hedge funds with the freedom to take on riskier bets after returning clients...
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ken Griffin’s Citadel bested its mega-multistrategy peers, posting a 26% return for 2021.
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January 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The biggest annual loss for Chris Rokos’s hedge fund isn’t deterring investors.
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January 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Bridgewater Associates named two new co-chief executives to head the world’s largest hedge-fund firm on Monday, after CEO David McCormick told staff he would be stepping down...
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January 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Bloomberg) -- D.E. Shaw & Co. appointed investor relations head Alexis Halaby, a managing director, as the sixth member of the hedge fund’s executive committee.
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June 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Hedge fund Maplelane Capital has raised its bearish options bets on GameStop and American Airlines, companies that were at the heart of a retail-investor-led rally...
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February 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Saba Capital Management, L.P.
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October 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
D. E. Shaw & Co. will open an office in Singapore next year, joining other hedge funds expanding in the city-state to extend their reach in Asia.
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October 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
In the last week of March, with the Covid-19 pandemic upending lives and markets, Ken Griffin started building a temporary trading floor in Florida.
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September 25 - 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
Hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller said Friday he agrees with fellow billionaire investor David Tepper’s optimism on the market and said he, too, is still “riding the...
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January 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crispin Odey’s main hedge fund slumped to a fourth annual loss in the last five years as his bearish bets misfired amid the longest-running equities bull market in history.
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January 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Citi Group (C.N) and hedge fund ValueAct Capital said on Thursday they would extend an existing information-sharing agreement for another two years through...
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December 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Berkshire Hathaway Inc.’s Warren Buffett issued a warning about eight years ago: Reinsurance isn’t easy.
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September 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Daniel Loeb’s Third Point LLC has built a stake in Centene Corp.
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May 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
At a money-manager conference in New York earlier this week, Ackman acknowledged a string of missteps in recent years that saw his main hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management...
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April 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Bloomberg) -- Bearish hedge fund manager Crispin Odey is making money on his long bets.
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September 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge-fund firm, lives by a set of rules that, he’d be first to admit, aren’t for everyone.
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September 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Quantitative investing is gaining more and more ground amid strong results that keeps convincing investors to switch away from traditional hedge funds that use human research...
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May 28 - Hedge Funds, News, Quantitative Investing
Several prominent hedge funds could be among investors feeling the pain from Facebook Inc.’s recent plunge amid the Cambridge Analytica data crisis.
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March 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The torch is passed as the old hedge fund guard is losing its touch in the current market.
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January 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Omega Advisors, the firm whose billionaire founder Leon Cooperman reached an insider-trading settlement with U.S.
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January 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Quantitative funds are gaining more ground among hedge funds in terms of trading volume and inflow of capital.
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December 28 - 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
Are Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL), Facebook Inc (NASDAQ:FB), Amazon.com, Inc.
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December 17 - Hedge Funds, News, Quantitative Investing, Tech
Activist investor Paul Singer doesn’t think conflict is brewing with Samsung Electronics Co., one of the latest targets in his quest to push for changes that benefit shareholders...
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October 25 - Hedge Funds
Liberty Tripadvisor Holdings, Inc.
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April 17 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire David E. Shaw's D. E. Shaw & Co. has reported its position in Comstock Resources Inc (NYSE:CRK) via a 13G filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.
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March 21 - Hedge Funds, News
D. E. Shaw & Co, founded by billionaire David E. Shaw, has reported its position in BioCryst Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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March 16 - Hedge Funds, News
In a recent filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, billionaire David E. Shaw's D. E.
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March 8 - Hedge Funds, News
D. E. Shaw Co., a fund founded by billionaire quant David Shaw, has disclosed its position in AMAG Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
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January 20 - Hedge Funds, News
Sandell Asset Management Corp., the activist hedge-fund firm run by Tom Sandell, said PartnerRe Ltd.
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May 22 - Hedge Funds
DuPont's weak quarterly sales and lowered annual profit forecast is expected to provide fresh ammunition to Nelson Peltz in his campaign to split up the chemical maker.
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April 21 - Hedge Funds
Jeffrey Smith’s Starboard Capital LP has been an outspoken activist investor of Yahoo! Inc.
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January 30 - Hedge Funds, News
David Cohen and Harold Levy’s Iridian Asset Management filed several 13G forms with the U.S.
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January 30 - Hedge Funds, News
David Cohen and Harold Levy’s Iridian Asset Management revealed the sale of two major positions on Thursday. As disclosed in a 13G Form filed with the U.S.
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January 30 - Hedge Funds, News
Barry Rosenstein’s JANA Partners shed its entire stake in Civeo Corp (NYSE:CVEO) before the beginning of the new year, relinquishing its spot as the company’s largest institutional...
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January 6 - Hedge Funds, News
D.E. Shaw & Co, managed by David E. Shaw, recently filed its 13F with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
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August 20 - Hedge Funds, News
There are more than 8,000 hedge funds in existence today, and of this group, we at Insider Monkey track close to 600 of the best and brightest.
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October 31 - Hedge Funds, News
One of America's richest businessmen has denied claims that he was detained following a car accident in Cuba after 'hitting a local kid with his car'. Daniel S.
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October 30 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund manager Philip Falcone, banned from the securities industry for five years by U.S.
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October 8 - Hedge Funds, News
Tiger Global Management, Chase Coleman's more than $11 billion stock-focused hedge and private equity fund firm, is set to launch a long-only vehicle, according to two people ...
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September 10 - Hedge Funds
Molycorp Inc (NYSE:MCP), the rare earth metals company, is down over 50% year to date and also made our list of terrible 20 stocks, given its high short interest and stock price...
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October 22 - Stock Analysis
D.E. Shaw & Co., LP, founded by D.E. Shaw in 1988, is a New York-based investment management firm managing over $26 billion in investment capital.
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September 13 - Hedge Funds
