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The inside story of how short-seller Carson Block made a killing this year,...
Carson Block's firm Muddy Waters is said to have returns of about 18% this year; other short-sellers have also posted gains.It's been a brutal year for many hedge funds as markets melted down in...
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Clint Carlson's hedge fund loses its chief risk officer in the latest senior...
Michael Palys, Carlson Capital's chief risk officer, has resigned.Carlson Capital, founded by Clint Carlson in 1993, also lost its longtime treasurer, Michael Watson, and head of fixed income, Ivan...
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It's 'something you really can't model for': The sudden prospect of a Trump...
Markets are being driven by politics and hedge funds are already beginning to assess the risk that US President Donald Trump may face impeachment in 2019.It's not the only risk on their radar, of...
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Investors are deserting markets and clawing back money from hedge funds —...
Evidence is mounting that market liquidity is drying up, a report from Deutsche Bank released in the final days of 2018 says.Slumping liquidity, or fewer investors buying and selling, raises concerns...
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Bridgewater, the biggest hedge fund in the world, crushed it in 2018 as most...
The world's biggest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, posted a 14.6% return for its flagship fund in 2018.The fund was one of the few to post big gains in a year when hedge funds on average were down...
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$21 billion hedge fund BlueMountain Capital is axing its long-short equity...
BlueMountain Capital is ending its long-short equity strategy, a source close to the firm tells Business Insider, only two years after starting it.The firm is firing several portfolio managers on the...
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A mystery trader just made a massive bet on the S&P 500 that could lose $558...
A trader sold 19,000 put options on the S&P 500. The bet could pay off about $175 million, or lose big — up to $558 million.Reuters reported that some in the market thought the trade was probably a...
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$4 billion hedge fund Jana Partners is cutting its stock-picking funds to...
$4 billion hedge fund manager Jana Partners is cutting two funds focused on traditional stock-picking strategies to focus on activism, according to a letter seen by Business Insider.The firm has a $1.5...
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One year ago, the founder of the world's biggest hedge fund predicted that...
Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio said one year ago Tuesday that investors holding cash would feel "pretty stupid," as he touted a strong market environment.Dalio's call did not pan out; cash...
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A little-known hedge fund just made a surprising short bet worth $182 million...
Bayfront Investments is shorting Italian sportswear maker Moncler in a massive single trade worth about 160 million euros ($182 million).At 2.03%, the stake of borrowed stock as a proportion of this...
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The government requires banks, brokerages, and casinos to take specific steps...
The federal government has required banks, brokerages, and even casinos to take steps to stop customers from using them to clean dirty money.However, investment companies such as hedge funds and...
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'UNPRECEDENTED DANGER': Billionaire investor George Soros just went scorched...
George Soros, the billionaire investor and chairman of Soros Fund Management, delivered his annual speech at the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting in Davos, Switzerland.Soros absolutely unloaded on...
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Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman calls for pay freeze in Congress to end...
The billionaire activist investor Bill Ackman used Twitter late Thursday to weigh in on the partial US government shutdown.Ackman called for members of Congress to have their pay stopped during the...
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It's not enough to be 2 guys from Goldman Sachs in a room with $5 million —...
The bar for entering the hedge-fund industry has been raised, and smaller funds are having trouble raising money from investors.The increased costs of running a hedge fund now compared with 10 years...
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A growing alternative data company helps hedge funds determine if CEOs are...
A software company called Amenity Analytics reviews earnings-call transcripts, press releases, company research, and more to try to help hedge funds spend less time looking for important nuggets of...
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A billionaire investment chief at the world's biggest hedge fund explained to...
Bob Prince, the co-chief investment officer at Bridgewater Associates — the world's biggest hedge fund — gave an exclusive interview to Business Insider last week at the World Economic Forum's Annual...
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The co-CEO of the world's biggest hedge fund reveals why vulnerability is the...
The world's largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, is known for its culture of radical transparency.Bridgewater employees are required to rate each other on roughly 90 different capabilities and...
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Billionaire investor Howard Marks' advice to wannabe hedge fund managers sums...
The billionaire investor Howard Marks, who cofounded Oaktree Capital in 1995, says it's gotten increasingly hard to start a hedge fund.Hedge fund managers are seeing their pay squeezed compared with...
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Investors are asking hedge funds to move to a '0-and-30' fee model, and it's...
After one of the worst years of hedge fund performance on record, investors are shifting to fee structures where they only pay if they see returns on their money.Hedge funds have been dropping the...
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David Tepper's Appaloosa hedge fund just slammed the $50 billion drugmaker...
The billionaire David Tepper's Appaloosa LP on Tuesday made a strongly worded call for change to the drugmaker Allergan's board leadership structure.Appaloosa wants Allergan's board to separate the...
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