Farallon Capital Management is one of the largest hedge funds in the world, with over $20 billion in assets under management at the beginning of 2012.
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December 18 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire Leon Cooperman headed Goldman Sachs Asset Management before founding Omega Advisors in 1991.
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December 17 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has gained control of another seat on the board of internet company Yahoo! Inc.(NASDAQ:YHOO).
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December 14 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire Daniel Loeb founded his New York-based hedge fund Third Point Management in 1995 with just over $3 million.
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December 12 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire Richard Chilton serves as the manager of Chilton Investment Company, which he founded in 1992 after having worked at Merrill Lynch and Allen & Company.
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December 11 - Hedge Funds
For two months, from mid-September to mid-November, Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) dropped from $700 to about $525 per share- a correction of 25%.
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December 5 - Stock Analysis
Oaktree Capital Management, which was founded by Howard Marks in 1995, is an investor in both debt and equity securities.
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December 5 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire Dan Loeb is best known for his activist investing, but his fund Third Point simply manages too much capital to be purely focused on activist crusades like Loeb’s...
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November 30 - Hedge Funds
Dan Loeb’s Third Point has over $4 billion in assets under management, as Loeb’s mix of activism- often quite hostile to current management, as was recently the case at Yahoo...
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November 28 - Hedge Funds
In November, Greenlight Capital released its 13F filing for the third quarter of 2012, which disclosed many of its long equity positions as of the end of September.
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November 28 - Hedge Funds
Our database of 13F filings allows us to track the long equity positions of hedge funds and other notable investors when these filings occur about seven weeks after the end of...
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November 16 - Hedge Funds
Appaloosa Management is a value hedge fund managed by billionaire David Tepper (whose name might sound familiar to any recent attendees of Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of...
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November 16 - Hedge Funds
Apple Inc (NASDAQ:AAPL) is a hedge fund favorite, but many managers have showed less confidence in the tech giant as of late.
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November 15 - Hedge Funds
Appaloosa Management is a value hedge fund managed by billionaire David Tepper (whose name might sound familiar to any recent attendees of Carnegie Mellon’s Tepper School of...
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November 15 - Hedge Funds
George Soros is best known for the fortune he made shorting the British pound in 1992, but he currently invests a considerable amount of money in equities and so is required to...
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November 15 - Hedge Funds
Lone Pine Capital has filed with the SEC to disclose that it owns 5.6 million shares of Informatica Corporation (NASDAQ:INFA).
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November 6 - Hedge Funds
Edoma Partners, a hedge fund founded in 2010 by former Goldman Sachs manager Pierre-Henri Flamand, has lost two of his associates, Oliver Haslam and Casper Lund, according to ...
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October 26 - Hedge Funds
It’s still early in her tenure but Marissa Mayer, new CEO of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), isn’t doing badly so far.
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October 23 - Stock Analysis
One of the hottest trades of the past few months has been the bonds of a country so shaken by economic and social turmoil that a neo-Nazi party is running third in the polls.
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October 23 - Hedge Funds
Diamond Hill Capital, managed by Ric Dillon, has filed its 13F with the SEC for the third quarter of 2012.
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October 19 - Hedge Funds
In September, Plains Exploration & Production Company (NYSE:PXP) announced a significant transition in the company’s strategy.
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October 18 - Hedge Funds
George Soros’, Soros Fund Management, a hedge fund management company, which he founded in 1969, bought 2% convertible Bond holdings in Digital River, Inc.
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October 12 - Hedge Funds
Murphy Oil Corporation (NYSE:MUR) was up over 5% last week on the news that Third Point believes the Murphy’s shares should be 60% higher.
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October 8 - Hedge Funds
Tiger Global, one of the world's best-performing hedge funds, ended the third quarter with strong gains, leaving the fund up 22.4 percent for the year, two people familiar with...
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October 4 - Hedge Funds
We have just obtained Dan Loeb’s Third Point hedge fund stat sheet for September, which discloses a new position in ‘Greek Government Bonds (GGB)’ (more on the position...
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October 3 - Hedge Funds
Los Angeles-based Empyrean was launched in 2004 by Michael Price and Amos Meron.
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September 25 - Hedge Funds
While most hedge fund managers are backing President Barack Obama's opponent this November, Farallon Capital Management founder Thomas Steyer is keeping faith with his liberal...
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September 11 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire investor and philanthropist George Soros made some bold statements in an interview with the Financial Times, saing that Germany must either lead the Eurozone out of...
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September 10 - Hedge Funds
Dan Loeb’s Third Point has been accused again of conspiring to destroy Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (TSE:FFH) (PINK:FRFHF), after it is alleged that the hedge fund was...
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September 6 - Hedge Funds
Activist investor Dan Loeb, manager of Third Point, is coming off quite the victory at Yahoo.
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August 31 - Hedge Funds
A New York hedge fund that owns bonds of bankrupt Eastman Kodak has asked the US Trustee to probe the company's patent auction because it was concerned about the "unusually secretive...
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August 21 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire Dan Loeb, manager and founder of Third Point, is known for his legendary letters to company executives regarding the “abysmal record of the current leadership” ...
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August 18 - Hedge Funds
Louis Moore Bacon plans to give back $2 billion, or 25 percent of his main hedge fund, to investors, saying it may be too big for him to achieve past returns as “liquidity and...
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August 1 - Hedge Funds
Yahoo (NASDAQ:YHOO) is starting to give its investors some hope. The former content emperor of the internet has recently made moves to recapture its former kingdom.
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July 26 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb upped his stake in Yahoo! (NASDAQ:YHOO). Loeb purchases 1.7 million shares of the media giant on Friday at $15.82 per share.
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July 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Yahoo’s (NASDAQ:YHOO) new CEO, Marissa Mayer, has drawn media attention for her Google background, her popularity among technology watchers, and for the fact that Yahoo has ...
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July 21 - Stock Analysis
Passport Capital LLC, the $3.4 billion hedge fund founded by John Burbank, plans to wind down its materials fund after a 31 percent loss this year, according to a letter to investors...
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July 11 - Hedge Funds
Bloomberg converted Third Point's investor letter and posted it on its website.
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July 3 - Hedge Funds
Dan Loeb's Offshore Fund returned 3.9% after fees during the first half of 2012.
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July 3 - Hedge Funds
Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) was one of the pioneers of the internet, providing some of the first hosting services for the everyday user in the United States, Europe, and elsewhere.
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June 25 - Hedge Funds
Goldman Sachs Group Inc. (GS), the fifth- biggest U.S. bank by assets, is in talks to sell its hedge-fund administration unit to State Street Corp.
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June 11 - Hedge Funds
At odds with his New York bred-and-born billionaire counterparts, Dan Loeb grew up in Santa Monica, California.
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June 11 - Hedge Funds
Bloomberg reports that Dan Loeb made $122 million from his $971 million bet on Yahoo (YHOO).
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May 15 - Hedge Funds
Dan Loeb's Third Point sold its Apple holdings at an unfortunate time - the second quarter of 2011 when the shares were hovering below $350.
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May 9 - Hedge Funds
Elm Ridge Capital's Ronald Gutfleish and his wife, Stacey Sorrow, bought Brooke Astor's 65-acre Westchester County estate in December.
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May 6 - Hedge Funds
BlueGold Capital, an oil-focused fund that made headlines in 2008 by calling the peak of the market, is liquidating after four years of trading -- the last of which put it at ...
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April 6 - Hedge Funds
Dan Loeb's fund Third Point has a stake in Yahoo (YHOO) worth roughly 5.8% of the company.
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April 5 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund manager Dan Loeb has almost 6% of his fund Third Point invested in Yahoo (YHOO). He initiated the position during the third quarter.
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March 29 - Hedge Funds
Yahoo (YHOO) used to be a great company.
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March 25 - Hedge Funds