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Another portfolio manager has left struggling hedge fund Folger Hill
Mitul Shah, a portfolio manager at Sol Kumin's Folger Hill, has left the hedge fund firm.Shah worked at Folger Hill Asset Management for about two years starting in February 2015, according to a...
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A high-profile hedge fund sent a letter explaining all the reasons it lost...
A high-profile hedge fund founded by a Steve Cohen acolyte sent a letter to investors explaining all the reasons for its underperformance.In a January investor letter, Folger Hill's Sol Kumin set out...
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A $20 billion investment firm dumped its huge trade in Apple — and bet on...
Billionaire Chase Coleman's Tiger Global exited its big Apple bet last quarter while making a $148 million bet on Alphabet and investing $132 million in Microsoft.In the fourth quarter of 2015, the...
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Billionaire investor Nelson Peltz took a huge stake in Procter & Gamble — and...
Trian Fund Management, the activist hedge fund cofounded by billionaire Nelson Peltz, has taken a stake in Procter & Gamble, The Wall Street Journal reports.P&G's stock was up 4% in after-hours...
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Izzy Englander's $35 billion hedge fund made a big bet on Target (TGT)
Izzy Englander's $35 billion hedge fund firm made a big bet on Target.The New York-based firm invested $175 million in the retailer in the fourth quarter of last year. It was the biggest new bet the...
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A big Massachusetts pension has yanked its money from one of the hedge fund...
BOSTON, Feb 14 (Reuters) - The Massachusetts state pension fund, which invests roughly $5 billion in hedge funds, has pulled money out of Brevan Howard, one of the industry's most prominent firms, a...
View ArticleHow billionaire hedge fund titan Steve Cohen walked away from the biggest...
In her new book "Black Edge: Inside Information, Dirty Money, and the Quest to Bring Down the Most Wanted Man on Wall Street," author Sheela Kolhatkar chronicles the incredible story of the biggest...
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A $14 billion hedge fund is sounding the alarm on distress in the retail sector
A $14 billion hedge fund firm is predicting pain for retail and other sectors.Canyon Capital Advisors, a Los Angeles-based hedge fund set up Joshua Friedman and Mitchell Julis, said in a January letter...
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A $14 billion hedge fund is venturing where others fear to tread
Canyon Capital Advisors, a $14 billion Los Angeles-based investment firm set up Joshua Friedman and Mitchell Julis, sees a fresh money-making opportunity betting on corporate takeovers.In a January...
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Some of the biggest names in the hedge fund industry are planning to invest...
Some of the biggest names in the investing world are backing a hot new hedge fund, according to people familiar with the situation.Philippe Laffont, the founder of Coatue Management; Louis Bacon, the...
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A $3.7 billion hedge fund interviewed dozens of job candidates, and what it...
A $3.7 billion hedge fund firm has some insight on how to hire top talent: Look for malleable people.In an investor letter this month, Tourbillon Capital Partners' Jason Karp wrote that his firm had...
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ValueAct's Ubben: 'Everything about Trump I think is inflationary' (MSFT, MS)
NEW YORK, Feb 22 (Reuters) - Jeffrey Ubben, the chief executive officer of activist investor ValueAct Capital, told Reuters on Wednesday that his firm had been taking money out of the capital markets...
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$3.7 BILLION HEDGE FUND: There's a lot to be excited about under Trump, but...
You can add the $3.7 billion hedge fund Tourbillon Capital to the list of firms wary of betting on President Donald Trump's policies."The next four years will be filled with a very wide range of...
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A hot new hedge fund is gearing up for one of this year's biggest launches
A former Citadel money manager is gearing up for one of this year's biggest hedge fund launches.Brandon Haley's Holocene Advisors is planning to launch with about $1 billion on April 3, according to...
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BUFFETT: The hedge fund industry's biggest profits are going to managers, not...
Warren Buffett is not a fan of hedge funds and the high fees they charge clients for the promise of outperformance. "When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will...
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A big European fund manager plans to back one of this year's largest hedge...
One of this year's most anticipated hedge fund launches can count on another big time investor.Jens-Peter Stein, cofounder of $6 billion hedge fund Stone Milliner Asset Management, is planning to make...
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One of Ken Griffin's senior staffers has left hedge fund giant Citadel
One of Ken Griffin's portfolio managers has left Citadel, the $26 billion hedge fund titan, according to people familiar with the matter.Karl Kroeker, who specialized in tech, worked nearly 14 years at...
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Ray Dalio is stepping down from managing the world's biggest hedge fund firm...
Ray Dalio, who oversees the world's biggest hedge fund firm, is stepping down from management amid a company-wide shake-up.Dalio will stop managing Bridgewater Associates by mid-April, according to a...
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Bill Ackman's nightmare stock is getting kicked around again
What more does the market want from Valeant Pharmaceuticals?The stock fell over 5% during Friday's trading day. The news of the day, though, was that the company had completed a $1.3 billion asset sale...
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GOLDMAN SACHS: Hedge funds and mutual funds have very different views on the...
It's no secret that bank stocks have outperformed the broader stock market since the election.Yet the enthusiasm for financials may be limited only to a certain kind of investors, according to a...
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