The gargantuan stimulus Japan is pumping into its economy will have to be even larger to achieve the desired results, said Hayman Capital founder Kyle Bass.
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May 24 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related Tickers: II-VI, Inc. (NASDAQ:IIVI), Westpac Banking Corporation (ASX:WBC), UBS AG (USA) (NYSE:UBS), Deutsche Bank AG (USA) (NYSE:DB), Citigroup Inc.
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May 12 - Hedge Funds
Philip Falcone and his firm Harbinger Capital agreed to a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission that could end Mr. Falcone's career as a hedge-fund manager.
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May 9 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: American International Group, Inc. (NYSE:AIG), Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ:YHOO), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), SandRidge Energy Inc.
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May 3 - Hedge Funds
The Sunday Times is out with its list of UK's wealthiest hedge fund managers.
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May 2 - Hedge Funds
SAC has been under fire in recent years, as the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission have investigated numerous current and former employees suspected...
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April 29 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), Netflix, Inc. (NASDAQ:NFLX), AOL, Inc. (NYSE:AOL), Nuance Communications Inc.
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April 25 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: The Blackstone Group L.P. (NYSE:BX), Apple Inc.
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April 22 - Hedge Funds
Hess Corp., the New York-based oil company, said shareholder Paul Singer’s Elliott Management Corp. is proposing to pay its board nominees fees to liquidate the company.
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March 27 - Hedge Funds
David Tepper, the hedge-fund manager who runs the $15 billion Appaloosa Management LP, said he’s bullish on U.S.
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January 23 - Hedge Funds
Ingersoll-Rand PLC (NYSE:IR) is expected to announce a plan to spin off its security-technology business, launch a share-buyback program and increase its dividend as part of ...
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December 10 - Hedge Funds
Hedge fund investor Whitney Tilson is standing a little taller tonight after shares of Netflix, Inc.
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December 5 - Hedge Funds
Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., the reinsurer that counts hedge-fund manager David Einhorn as its chairman, rose the most since August as UBS AG raised its rating on the firm to buy...
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November 22 - Hedge Funds
Hedge-fund titan Steven Cohen is casting a shadow over the government’s last outstanding insider-trading trial.
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November 19 - Hedge Funds
Silicon Valley has supported President Barack Obama with huge contributions to the super PAC backing his reelection in the final month before the election.
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October 26 - Hedge Funds
You could not blame GLG Partners co-founder Noam Gottesman for feeling a little smug today.
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October 18 - Hedge Funds
Caxton Associates LP plans to lower the fees it charges clients of its $7.5 billion hedge fund, a sign that even veteran money managers are bowing to investor pressure amid lackluster...
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October 15 - 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
David Harding, founder of hedge fund Winton Capital Management, has disclosed an annual tax bill of £34m and urged other higher rate taxpayers to pay their fair share.
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October 1 - Hedge Funds
A streak of grown-up Tiger cubs are reuniting to honor their elder statesman.
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September 25 - Hedge Funds
Seattle City Council members this summer said they wouldn't approve a $490 million basketball and hockey arena without knowing more about Chris Hansen's business plan, his investors...
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September 24 - 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
David Einhorn’s Greenlight Capital posted a 4 percent gain in August. This put the hedge fund manager up 9.7 percent for the year to date.
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September 4 - Hedge Funds
Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul E.
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August 23 - Hedge Funds
Prudential Financial has hired a hedge fund economist to boost its emerging markets credit capabilities.
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August 8 - Hedge Funds
Funds of hedge funds firm SkyBridge Capital plans to delve into Asia’s growing hedge fund market.
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July 30 - Hedge Funds
BlackRock Inc. (BLK), the world’s biggest money manager, said second-quarter profit fell 11 percent as slumping markets worldwide eroded fees for managing client assets.
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July 18 - Hedge Funds
Marcus Agius, the chairman of Barclays, resigned on Monday, less than a week after the big British bank agreed to pay $450 million to settle accusations that it had tried to manipulate...
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July 2 - Hedge Funds
Philip Falcone’s hedge fund, having taken out a loan earlier this year at an effective annual interest rate of 24 percent, has found a new source of financing: the money-management...
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June 20 - Hedge Funds
Kohlberg Kravis Roberts (KKR.N), the private equity company, has bought hedge fund money manager Prisma Capital Partners LP, marking the latest move by the private equity sector...
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June 19 - Hedge Funds
New York hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon announced his intentions Friday to donate 90,000 acres of land in Colorado toward the creation of the Sangre de Cristo Conservation...
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June 18 - Hedge Funds
Convicted hedge fund fraudster R. Allen Stanford said yesterday that he's no Bernard Madoff, but a federal judge sentenced him to a Madoff-like 110 years in prison, anyway.
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June 15 - Hedge Funds
The head of a joint venture between Samena Capital and Reyl & Cie says the global crisis was tough, but produced good hedge seeding opportunities in Asia.
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June 12 - Hedge Funds
Blackstone Group has raised its exposure to former Citadel trader Nick Taylor by putting up another $50 million to co-invest with his Asia-focused hedge fund, sources said, a ...
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June 6 - Hedge Funds
Smaller-sized hedge funds are increasingly throwing in the towel in Asia as they struggle to attract money from risk-wary institutional investors, casting a cloud over prospects...
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June 4 - Hedge Funds
The Man Group, the world’s largest publicly traded hedge fund, agreed on Monday to acquire a rival hedge fund investment manager in the latest in a wave of consolidation in ...
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May 21 - Hedge Funds
Bloomberg's Dominic Chu reports that Warren Buffett, the former hedge fund manager who built Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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March 2 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Feds Taped Cohen's Calls In Insider Probe (FINalternatives)
Federal authorities recorded several of SAC Capital Advisors founder Steven Cohen's phone calls in the early stages of their wide-ranging insider-trading investigation.
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March 1 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Whitman Capital LLC’s president was charged with taking part in two separate insider-trading conspiracies, using illegal tips on Google Inc., Polycom Inc.
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February 13 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
TPG Capital LLP agreeed to buy GlobeOp Financial Services SA, a hedge fund administrator, for about 508 million pounds ($800 million).
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February 1 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Troy Gayeski, senior portfolio manager at SkyBridge Capital LLC, discusses liquidity conditions for hedge funds and high-yield bonds, and efforts by the U.S.
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January 30 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd (CP) said William Ackman's hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management has asked to elect five of its nominees to the company's board as the proxy...
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January 24 - Hedge Funds, Macroeconomic Predictions
Man Group, the world’s largest listed fund manager, has appointed ex-Goldman Sachs man Ruud Hendriks as non-executive chairman of the firm’s Institutional Department. He ...
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December 1 - Hedge Funds
Richard Arney, head of hedge funds at BlackRock Alternative Investors, spoke to Bloomberg Television’s Susan Li in Hong Kong today about recent market swings and its implications...
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October 27 - News
A former Old Lane Partners manager has returned home to launch a high-concentrated hedge fund focused on Russia. Viatcheslav Pivovarov's Altera Capital will launch its maiden...
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October 27 - Uncategorized
Wall Street regulators expressed mounting concern about SAC Capital Advisors' trading over a nine-year period, detailing in dozens of confidential reports suspicions that the ...
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October 25 - Hedge Funds
Sarona Asset Management, a specialist in private equity and impact investing funds, has opened a European office and appointed Vivina Berla as a senior partner and European managing...
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October 24 - Hedge Funds