George Soros, Laurene Powell Jobs and Steven Spielberg are among the biggest donors to the campaign to keep Harry Reid the Senate majority leader.
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October 21 - Hedge Funds
If billionaire Carl Icahn has a plan to squeeze value out of Talisman Energy Inc.
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October 6 - Hedge Funds
The hedge fund billionaire Louis M.
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August 14 - Hedge Funds
SAC Capital Advisors LP founder Steven A. Cohen’s case brought by the U.S.
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May 28 - Hedge Funds
Globally the entire world thinks the governments have their back in asset markets.
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April 4 - Hedge Funds
Hedge funds held up better than global stocks last month, falling an average of 0.1 percent as equities slumped amid a selloff in emerging-market currencies and signs of weakness...
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February 7 - Hedge Funds
Hedge funds held up better than stocks in January, falling an average of 0.1 percent as global equities slumped amid a selloff in emerging-market currencies and signs of weakness...
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February 7 - Hedge Funds
Och-Ziff Capital Management's strong hedge-fund returns helped it top analysts' expectations in the fourth quarter.
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February 6 - Hedge Funds
With four years remaining, Warren Buffett has a commanding lead in a decade-long bet that put a low-fee stock index fund up against a portfolio of high-priced hedge funds.
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February 6 - Hedge Funds
In this article we look into four companies that are in Warren Buffett's portfolio and have witnessed insider purchases over the past three months.
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January 29 - Hedge Funds
Mondelez International Inc (NASDAQ:MDLZ), which makes Cadbury chocolate, Oreo cookies and Trident gum, said it added activist investor Nelson Peltz to its board.
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January 21 - Hedge Funds
Exactly one year ago, billionaire hedge fund manager Edward Lampert named himself CEO of Sears Holdings Corp (NASDAQ:SHLD), taking over from former International Business ...
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January 13 - Hedge Funds
Hedge-fund manager Paul Singer turned in another steady year of performance in 2013, according to a monthly investor update. Mr.
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January 8 - Hedge Funds
A trial starting this week over what US prosecutors say is the most lucrative insider trading scheme ever is expected to bring further pressure on Steven A Cohen, the founder ...
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January 7 - Hedge Funds
Timing isn't everything, but it sure helps. Six years ago, Warren Buffett, chairman of Berkshire Hathaway Inc.
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December 9 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Sears Holdings Corporation (NASDAQ:SHLD), Wells Fargo & Co (NYSE:WFC), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Apple Inc.
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August 23 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Dell Inc. (NASDAQ:DELL), Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc (ADR) (NYSE:RBS), Herbalife Ltd.
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August 5 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (NYSE:CMG), Herbalife Ltd. (NYSE:HLF), Hess Corp. (NYSE:HES), Citigroup Inc (NYSE:C), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc.
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July 19 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related tickers: AeroVironment, Inc. (NASDAQ:AVAV), Caterpillar Inc. (NYSE:CAT), SandRidge Energy Inc. (NYSE:SD), H.J.
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July 18 - Hedge Funds
“Hedge funds are the antithesis of baseball,” says Julian Robertson, 80, billionaire founder of one of the most successful hedge funds ever, Tiger Management.
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June 6 - Hedge Funds
Editor's Note: Related Tickers: Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), Citigroup Inc. (NYSE:C), J.C. Penney Company, Inc. (NYSE:JCP), Herbalife Ltd.
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May 17 - 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: UBS AG (USA) (NYSE:UBS), Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. (NYSE:GS), Groupon Inc (NASDAQ:GRPN), J.C. Penney Company, Inc.
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April 16 - Hedge Funds
The "criticism is deserved," Ackman said on Friday of Ron Johnson, the former Apple executive who has been tasked with overhauling the staid retail chain and who has come under...
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April 6 - Hedge Funds
Harbinger Capital Management founder Philip Falcone has borrowed an unspecified amount from a Fortress Investment Group unit best known for giving the late Michael Jackson a mortgage...
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March 26 - Hedge Funds
Carl Icahn, reviving a decade-old feud with hedge-fund manager William Ackman, said the founder of Pershing Square Capital Management LP acted inappropriately when publicly announcing...
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January 25 - Hedge Funds
Another day, another hedge fund manager weighs in on nutritional products company Herbalife Ltd.
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January 24 - Hedge Funds
Each of the two big Steve Cohen magazine profiles out this week — one from Bloomberg Businessweek and the other from literary journal n+1 — has its merits.
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January 18 - Hedge Funds
The two biggest hedge funds led by Citadel LLC CEO Ken Griffin posted returns of about 26 percent as of the end of the year compared to 2011 year end results, according to a person...
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January 4 - Hedge Funds
MACRO HEDGE FUND MANAGERS KNOW THE MARKETS can be a cruel mistress. Just ask Louis Bacon.
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January 3 - Hedge Funds
JANA Partners, Barry Rosenstein's resurgent event driven firm, has a new head of marketing and investor relations.
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December 24 - 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
One of the hedge funds run by John Paulson, whose prescient bets against housing where chronicled in the book "The Greatest Trade Ever," is on track to be the second worst performer...
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December 4 - Hedge Funds
Duke Energy Corp (NYSE:DUK) CEO Jim Rogers will retire at the end of 2013 and other key executives will be shuffled under an extraordinary agreement to end regulators’ five-...
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November 30 - Hedge Funds
Last week, we discussed the federal government's allegations of illegal insider trading against Mathew Martoma, a former hedge fund manager employed by CR Intrinsic Investors (...
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November 27 - Hedge Funds
Renaissance Technologies is one of the most mysterious hedge funds in the world.
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November 27 - Hedge Funds
George Soros cites Isaiah Berlin as an important intellectual influence, so it makes sense to see Soros through one of the Riga-born philosopher's best-known lenses -- the division...
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November 26 - Hedge Funds
Activist investor Carl Icahn bumped up his stake in Chesapeake Energy Corporation (NYSE:CHK), a company where he has already pushed for sweeping changes in governance.
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November 21 - Hedge Funds
Despite the common perception of insider trading, it remains a fact that out of the hundreds of thousands of insider transactions every year, just a tiny fraction are ruled to...
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November 20 - Hedge Funds
Mathew Martoma was charged with insider trading today.
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November 20 - Hedge Funds, Insider Trading