$3.7 BILLION HEDGE FUND: This market doesn't make any sense (AAPL)
The stock market's seemingly endless gains don't make much sense, according to a $3.7 billion hedge fund.More than eight years into the market's latest bull cycle, the second-longest on record, stocks...
View ArticleHedge funds are taking big bets against the UK shops that are feeling the...
LONDON (Reuters) - Hedge funds have significantly stepped up bets against Britain's traditional high street retailers, as the sector struggles with online competition, worries about a stretched...
View ArticleThe $265 billion target of a notorious activist hedge fund just announced $21...
Nestlé, the food and candy company that has been targeted by an $18 billion activist fund, says it will buy back roughly $21 billion of its shares.In a statement, Nestlé said that the share buyback...
View ArticleThe hedge funder who had long hoped to work for Trump finally got a job
BOSTON (Reuters) - Hedge fund industry executive Anthony Scaramucci, an advisor to U.S. President Donald Trump, has been named chief strategy officer of the U.S. Export-Import Bank, a source familiar...
View ArticleAn activist investor called out 50 stocks, and then most of them tanked
HONG KONG, June 28 (Reuters) - Six weeks ago, David Webb, an activist investor and former director of the Hong Kong exchange, issued a report titled "The Enigma Network: 50 stocks not to own". On...
View ArticleA 33-year old hedge fund manager is hoping to raise at least $200 million for...
LONDON - A credit trader at the London office of Eric Mindich's $7 billion New York hedge fund, Eton Park, which said about three months ago that it was shutting down, is looking to open his own firm,...
View ArticleA top trader at a $12.6 billion hedge fund is going it alone with $200...
Giles Coppel, a top trader in Brevan Howard's New York office, is prepping his own hedge fund, people familiar with the matter said.Brevan Howard is backing Coppel with $200 million, the people...
View ArticleBillionaire hedge funder Bill Ackman has set up his own Twitter account
BOSTON (Reuters) - Billionaire investor William Ackman, one of the hedge fund industry's most voluble managers with opinions ranging from how companies should be run to the dangers of sugary drinks,...
View ArticleKYLE BASS: America's relationship with China just took 'a major step for the...
Kyle Bass, the founder of hedge fund Hayman Capital Management, isn't optimistic about the United States' relationship with China, a market he is famously short on. "Yesterday kind of signified a...
View ArticleHedge fund titan Ken Griffin describes the 'incredibly humiliating' moment...
Ignorance is bliss – except when it costs you and your clients billions.Ken Griffin, the billionaire founder of hedge fund titan Citadel, said that he didn't appreciate the fragility of the US banking...
View ArticleHow teachers, firemen and college endowments ended up enriching America's...
Public pensions and college endowments are some of the biggest investors in hedge funds, investment vehicles that have made their managers some of the wealthiest people in the world.Middlemen funnel...
View ArticleThe founder of a $5 billion hedge fund just kicked off a summer music tour
Pete Muller, the founder of $5 billion hedge fund PDT Partners, kicked off a summer tour across Europe with a performance Thursday, July 6, in New York.You might remember Muller from his concert last...
View ArticleA massive hedge fund that shut itself to outsiders is crushing it
European hedge fund BlueCrest Capital Management continues to post stellar returns after shutting its doors to outside investors a little over a year ago. The London-based firm, run by billionaire...
View Article$12 BILLION HEDGE FUND: The stock market has changed, and we're going to have...
The stock market has changed, and investors are going to have to sharpen their wits. That's according to Dmitry Balyasny, the managing partner at billion hedge fund Balyasny Asset Management. The firm...
View ArticleDAVID EINHORN: Tesla bulls look at Elon Musk and think of Steve Jobs, but...
Tesla is no Apple.That's according to David Einhorn, the founder of the hedge fund Greenlight Capital, who wrote out a litany of reasons he's bearish on Tesla in his firm's second-quarter letter."Tesla...
View ArticleChina mocks Kyle Bass... again
We've talked before about what billionaire hedge fund manager Kyle Bass of Hayman Capital doesn't understand about China.And now we're going to talk about it again, because China's government has once...
View ArticleA $30 billion hedge fund identified a potential trigger for 'the next...
Baupost Group's head of public investments, Jim Mooney, warns that high levels of leverage, or borrowings, and low volatility could bring about the next financial crisis. He pinpoints hundreds of...
View ArticleA hedge fund started by a former Steve Cohen exec might be turning itself around
Folger Hill, a hedge fund launched by billionaire Steve Cohen's former exec, has posted slight gains this year.The fund had faced setbacks since launching two years ago, suffering deep losses and...
View ArticleBillionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's first tweet is a photo of him at...
Bill Ackman's first tweet is about Chipotle, a company his hedge fund Pershing Square has taken a big stake in.It is his first tweet since he launched the Twitter profile late in June. The photo was...
View ArticleA hedge fund set up by Steve Cohen's former chief investment officer is...
A hedge fund set up by Aaron Cowen, a former chief investment officer at SAC Capital, is crushing it this year.Suvretta Capital Management's master fund is up 12.5% after fees for the first six months...
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