David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management made two additions to its equity portfolio in the first quarter, and both hail from the gaming industry.
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May 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Elwood Technologies, the cryptocurrency company backed by billionaire fund manager Alan Howard, raised $70 million in a funding round co-led by Goldman Sachs (GS) and Dawn Capital...
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May 16 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Hedge fund HG Vora Capital Management LLC said on Friday it offered to acquire Ryder System Inc for $4.4 billion, sending the truck fleet operator’s shares up 17...
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May 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The ink’s barely dry on Regal Funds Management’s agreement to acquire VGI Partners, and already the country’s busiest hedge fund manager appears to be thinking about other...
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May 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
STAMFORD — Cartenna Capital, a Stamford-based investment management firm, has committed $8.5 million as an equity investor to support Elon Musk’s planned acquisition of Twitter...
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May 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman and Peter Thiel, an ally of former President Donald Trump, are backing a startup investing firm that says it plans to go head to head against large...
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May 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
In the 18 months since billionaire hedge-fund manager Steve Cohen bought the New York Mets, the baseball world has wondered how the sport’s wealthiest owner would use his vast...
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May 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Jeffrey Ryan, one of the founding employees of Citadel's quantitative finance team, is making a comeback. In crypto.
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May 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Famed activist investor Chris Hohn ripped into one of the ESG industry’s most popular strategies, known as “engagement,” characterizing it as all talk and no meaningful ...
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May 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A long-time lieutenant of billionaire Lee Ainslie is starting his own firm. Andrew Warford left Dallas-based Maverick Capital after 18 years in 2021.
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May 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Tiger Global Management’s performance problems are piling up.
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May 3 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Ken Griffin’s Citadel scored a 7.5% return for April in its main hedge fund even as U.S. stocks posted their worst performance in decades.
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May 2 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
It looks like billionaire hedge fund manager Dan Loeb’s bet on North Bay Road is paying off.
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April 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Swedish hedge-fund manager Thomas Sandell and his wife bought the 17-room Neoclassical townhouse from the Versace family for $30 million in 2005.
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April 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Reuters) - Alta Fox Capital Management LLC is seeking to oust Hasbro Inc’s chairman and two other directors, as the activist investor pushes for changes at the toymaker including...
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April 27 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
When British hedge fund manager Christopher Hohn launched The Children’s Investment Fund Management in 2003 — pledging to donate 50 basis points of the management fee to a...
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April 26 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
“For us, we think the cryptocurrency markets represent tremendous growth,” said SkyBridge founder Anthony Scarramucci.
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April 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
A hedge fund founded and controlled by an American billionaire has increased its stake in Asos, the online fashion retailer once fêted as a stock market star.
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April 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
TOPLINE Ahead of McDonald’s annual shareholder meeting this year, billionaire investor Carl Icahn has doubled down on his effort to overhaul the fast-food chain’s animal welfare...
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April 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Bloomberg) -- The Alan Howard era at Brevan Howard Asset Management appears to have come to an end.
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April 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
MADRID (Reuters) - Fund manager Reade Griffith bought a minority stake in Spanish broadcaster Mediaset Espana after its parent company MediaForEurope launched a public takeover...
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April 19 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Multistrategy investor Coatue Management has amassed at least $6.58 billion so far for its fifth growth-investment strategy and possibly more from a feeder fund, regulatory filings...
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April 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Nielsen Holdings has a new largest shareholder, a hedge fund that opposes a recent acquisition offer for the audience-ratings firm.
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April 15 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Billionaire legendary hedge fund manager Ray Dalio outlined some of the key issues he said investors and non-investors need to pay attention to as the war in Ukraine marks the...
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April 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Stockholm (HedgeNordic) – Activist investor Accendo Capital has expanded its investment team by hiring Nicholas Bianco as a portfolio manager.
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April 13 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Marc Lasry, the co-founder, chairman and chief executive of private-equity firm and hedge-fund investor Avenue Capital, has seen plenty of success in the sports world, as the ...
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April 12 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
New York City-based growth equity investment firm Lead Edge Capital (LEC) raised $1.95 billion for its largest fund to date, Fund VI, to make bets on software, internet, consumer...
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April 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
One is a classical pianist. Another is a former minor league baseball player. Two others are sons of iconic Wall Streeters.
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April 8 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway has built a stake of more than 11% in computer-and-printer maker HP, marking another foray into computing by the once technology-averse billionaire...
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April 7 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The world’s largest hedge fund firm is closing the macro strategy to new investors.
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April 6 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Crypto technology firm Lightning Labs said it is bringing in new financing as it creates a protocol to facilitate fiat currency transfers to Bitcoin.
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April 5 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Larry Robbins’ main hedge fund and little-known healthcare fund have so far managed to stay in the black for the year.
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April 4 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Toscafund, a London-headquartered specialist asset manager founded by Martin Hughes in 2000 and chaired by Martin Gilbert, has opened a Hong Kong office, its second in Asia-Pacific...
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April 1 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The Russia's unprovoked war against Ukraine is not a death knell for globalization but should be a wake-up call about the risks of investing in countries that aren't democracies...
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March 31 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
For years 15 years, Hugh Hendry ran the hedge fund Eclectica Asset Management, earning a reputation as a provocative and contrarian thinker on the entire state of the world economy...
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March 30 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The chief executive of Odey Asset Management has resigned, Portfolio Adviser has learned, marking the second senior departure from Crispin Odey’s hedge fund business in a month...
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March 29 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
London hedge fund Odey Asset Management reckons IGO’s joint venture with Andrew Forrest’s Wyloo Metals short-changes minority shareholders in IGO’s $1.07 billion bid for...
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March 28 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Yicai Global) March 25 -- If the United States were to decouple from China, it would slow innovation, Ken Griffin, founder and chief executive of US financial firm Citadel LLC...
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March 25 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico, March 24, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- Vivaris Capital, LLC , an alternative assets investment manager, announced today the launch of its new, multi-strategy fund...
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March 24 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hayman Capital Management founder and CIO Kyle Bass joined "Mornings with Maria," Wednesday and warned that Wall Street is "funding" Russia’s war machine.
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March 23 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Many readers may have been surprised to see Christopher James, the founder of Engine No.
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March 22 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Investment fund APX Capital Group has unveiled details of a €250m ($276m) TV and film production fund, following its acquisition of Mathew Knowles’ Music World Entertainment...
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March 21 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
The London Metal Exchange's attempts to restart nickel trading went awry again — a week after an unheard of short squeeze led the exchange to cancel orders and halt trading.
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March 18 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
(Bloomberg) -- Commodities trader Pierre Andurand sees a path for crude oil to get to $200 by the end of the year as historically tight markets struggle to ramp up production ...
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March 17 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
STAMFORD - The Steven Cohen - founded hedge fund Point72 is reportedly pulling out the $750 million investment it made last year in an embattled hedge fund run by one of Cohen...
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March 16 - 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
Hedge funds like multi-strategy giants Millennium and Point72 are getting into crypto. The space, which was once dismissed by top managers, has become more accepted.
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March 14 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Hedge fund titan Clifford Asness joined traders in slamming the London Metal Exchange after the platform cancelled trades – a move that may have helped stem losses at a fund...
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March 11 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
New York hedge-fund firm Aravt Global LLC is shutting down after sustaining significant losses recently, a sign of the severe pain the selloff in growth stocks is inflicting.
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March 10 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
Modular Asset Management, a hedge-fund spinoff from Israel Englander’s Millennium Management, hired Daniel Liebau as chief investment officer for a strategy that will focus ...
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March 9 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading
