Hedge Fund - Third Point

Globally the entire world thinks the governments have their back in asset markets.

Richard Handler’s Leucadia National Corp. (NYSE:LUK) more than doubled its bet on Philip Falcone’s Harbinger Group Inc. after the value of an earlier investment jumped.

Dan Loeb’s Third Point, has raised its stake in Sothebys (NYSE:BID), as revealed in a new filing with the Security and Exchange Commission.

Dmitry Balyasny is one hedge fund owner who isn’t afraid of hiring traders from SAC Capital Advisors as long as they were far away from the “messiness” that engulfed the firm during the federal ...

Dan Loeb and his fund Third Point have slightly upped their activist position in Sothebys (NYSE:BID) and proposed several candidates, including Mr. Loeb to be elected on the company's board.

In the current round of 13F filings, hedge funds and other institutional investors are disclosing their equity portfolios as held at the end of the last year.

Why aren’t there more women running hedge funds? The money’s good, and the lifestyle would seem to lend itself better to balancing family demands than more traditional Wall Street jobs, with less ...

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 in China.

The stock market’s decline this year is healthy and the Standard & Poor’s 500 Index probably will end 2014 higher, Leon Cooperman, chairman of hedge fund Omega Advisors Inc., said on Bloomberg Television...