20 hedge-fund dealmakers who are beating VCs at their own game by pumping...
Summary List PlacementIt's easy for investors to take big bets on companies like Google and Facebook. It's much more challenging to find the fledgling startup that is set to become the next industry...
View ArticleMichael Gelband's $13.3 billion ExodusPoint is losing top tech talent as...
Summary List PlacementTwo of Michael Gelband's top tech personnel have left his $13.3 billion firm ExodusPoint Capital Management, sources told Insider.Sonny Baillargeon and Anil Chandroth — the global...
View ArticleFamed short seller Carson Block has lost money on Chinese stock bet Gaotu...
Summary List PlacementChina's Gaotu Techedu has been "the worst stock ever" for the activist short seller Carson Block.The founder of Muddy Waters Capital told Insider in an interview that his short on...
View ArticleThe 20 hedge-fund dealmakers who are beating VCs at their own game
Summary List PlacementIt's easy for investors to take big bets on companies like Google and Facebook. It's much more challenging to find the fledgling startup that is set to become the next industry...
View ArticleHedge funds get a wake up call on the risks of investing in China
Summary List PlacementHedge funds with big positions in Chinese companies will likely be proceeding with caution after the regulatory environment rocked markets over the last week. The rout, triggered...
View ArticleThe strategies 4 hedge funds are using to invest in hot startups and get an...
Summary List PlacementHedge funds, long considered the world's best public market investors, have been losing their edge. Quants are squeezing out inefficiencies while funds struggle to justify their...
View ArticleAlt data vendors have blacklisted a dozen hedge funds for ripping off...
Summary List PlacementThe alternative data business, for as much as the industry has boomed in recent years, is still a hard nut to crack.Data vendors need a product with a history and clear...
View ArticlePoint72 has poached a star credit trader from JPMorgan as a new portfolio...
Summary List PlacementPoint72 Asset Management has hired a star credit trader from JPMorgan Chase as a new portfolio manager.Leon Hagouel, an executive director in JPMorgan's fixed-income trading...
View ArticleGabe Plotkin's Melvin Capital gained ground in July, but is still in a big...
Summary List PlacementGabe Plotkin's chipping away.After booking losses of 46% in the first half of the year, Plotkin's Melvin Capital has started the second half with a solid month of returns. Sources...
View ArticleLee Ainslie's Maverick Capital is up big, while managers like Tiger Global...
Summary List PlacementThe cheery sentiment surrounding hedge funds' first half of the year — which places like Hedge Fund Research have trumpeted as the best start in decades — does not apply to all...
View Article$2.6 billion hedge fund Gladstone hires a Fidelity portfolio manager and a...
Summary List PlacementUK-based Gladstone Capital has boosted its leadership team with a new COO and a new sector head of technology, a source familiar with the matter told Insider.The global long short...
View ArticleCoinbase's CFO says the company is looking to focus more on institutional...
Summary List PlacementCoinbase, the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange, is looking to focus more on institutional clients, CFO Alesia Haas said on Wednesday."The way that we look at it is where...
View ArticleHedge funds are diving further into cryptocurrency, and the battle for talent...
Summary List PlacementSome of the biggest hedge funds are diving into cryptocurrencies, accelerating the battle for crypto talent among investment managers. In recent months, hedge funds have built out...
View ArticleA fund seeded by billionaire Julian Robertson bet big on ride-hailing app...
Summary List PlacementTiger Legatus, a $200 million Tiger Grandcub run by former Viking Global portfolio manager Jesse Ro, bet big on DiDi Global, which has immediately run into trouble since its $4.4...
View ArticleThe hedge fund winners and losers of China's sell-off: Tiger Global and...
Summary List PlacementChinese stocks continued to tumble this week on new data showing the slowdown from COVID-19 was worse than expected in July. Shares of Chinese companies, mostly in tech, began...
View ArticleBank of America shares how to implement an investing strategy that has...
Summary List PlacementInvestors pay more than their fair share of attention to cycles in business, the economy, and markets — and their own behavior can be just as predictable.Savita Subramanian, the...
View ArticleHedge funds from massive money managers BlackRock and Pimco are trailing the...
Summary List PlacementSome of BlackRock's hedge funds have seen stronger performance so far in 2021 than earlier this year, but four of its five strategies are still underperforming the average fund....
View ArticleHedge funds' massive startup bets are juicing returns but also complicating...
Summary List PlacementIt wasn't that long ago that investments into private companies were shunned by hedge funds.The financial crisis left hedge funds with illiquid assets scrambling, and "people...
View ArticleUS hedge funds were caught off-guard by China's massive regulation-driven...
Summary List PlacementUS hedge funds have been burned by China's regulatory crackdown in recent months, according to Goldman Sachs.The bank found that Chinese stocks were the most popular ever among...
View ArticlePoint72 alum David Fiszel reveals how he built $1.5 billion Honeycomb Asset...
Summary List PlacementHoneycomb Asset Management is only five years old, but founder David Fiszel has been thinking about it for at least 20.It's Fizsel's second spin at running his own fund – he...
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