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It's a billionaire bounce back as Einhorn, Ackman, and Edelman all post good...
For several well-known funds, the start of 2019 has helped wash off the stink of last year, as big-name managers like David Einhorn, Bill Ackman, Joseph Edelman and Dmitry Balyasny all finished January...
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With the $3 billion alternative data industry exploding, hedge fund managers...
As hedge fund managers seek out ways to beat the market, they're increasingly turning to alternative data providers to identify trends before their competitors. But with information like satellite...
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Hedge funds will spend $2 billion on web-scraping software to gain an edge,...
Hedge funds and asset managers scraping the web for investment purposes represented 5% of all Internet traffic in 2018, and is expected to increase rapidly. As investors look for new ways to beat the...
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Bill Ackman's Pershing Square says it's 'returning to its roots,' and it shed...
Bill Ackman's $7.9 billion Pershing Square hedge fund lost a third of its staff in 2018, dropping from 56 employees to 38, according to an investor presentation. The staff cuts, which were the first...
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Hedge fund investors are facing an existential question and it shows how the...
Hedge funds suffered one of their worst years on record in 2018, and they underperformed the market for years before that. Managers, however, believe that part of the blame lies with big Wall Street...
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David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital used a bunch of New Yorker cartoons to...
Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn's annual presentation to investors called 2018 "the year we weren't right about anything."Greenlight, which has fallen to roughly $5 billion in assets as investors...
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These are the 10 best paid hedge fund managers for 2018
The 10 best paid fund managers in the world made $7.7 billion in 2018 with one fund manager seeing his fortune increase $1.8 billion last year. Many of the world's biggest funds saw big returns even...
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A former SAC Capital portfolio manager is closing his $1 energy billion hedge...
Precocity Capital, an energy-focused hedge fund that began trading in mid-2016, is closing down, sources tell Business Insider.Nick Tiller, a former portfolio manager for Steve Cohen's SAC Capital and...
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Bloomberg is diving in to the booming alternative-data field with a new...
Bloomberg LP is rolling out a new product that will offer its customers access to alternative datasets from more than 20 companies.The alternative datasets will be hosted not on Bloomberg's main...
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A senior Citadel portfolio manager nearly joined Balyasny — but decided to...
After initially agreeing to join Balyasny Asset Management late last year, longtime Citadel portfolio manager Nilsson Kocher reversed course and decided to return to Ken Griffin's fund, a source...
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The market's 'smart money' is flooding into industrial stocks — but one Wall...
Hedge funds are crowding into industrials, according to the top equity strategist for RBC Capital Markets. Those stocks are soaring, but risks to investors are on the rise as well.Lori Calvasina says...
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Stock-pickers are starting the year hot, but investors still pulled billions....
Long-short equity funds, the biggest strategy by assets in the $3.2 trillion hedge fund space, have had a hot start to 2019. But investors have still pulled out billions.The stock-picking space has...
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Hedge funds are playing with fire as they all cram into the same stocks — and...
Goldman Sachs conducts a regular survey of large investment managers, and the latest version featured findings from 880 hedge funds overseeing a gross total of $2.1 trillion in stock positions.The firm...
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Carlson Capital is bleeding assets in its stock-picking fund following the...
Carlson Capital portfolio manager Matthew Barkoff resigned from Dallas-based hedge fund in January, prompting a wave of redemptions, sources tell Business Insider.Assets at the Black Diamond Thematic...
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GOLDMAN SACHS: The stars have aligned for an elite group of stocks known for...
It can be highly valuable to know what the most popular stocks are for both hedge funds and mutual funds. But knowing which companies are favored by both can be even more beneficial.Goldman Sachs has...
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Hedge-fund investors have moved toward 'ultra customization,' and it's...
With thousands of hedge funds to pit against each other, large investors are using their scale and array of options to get customized products built by managers just for them.A quarter of newly...
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Anthony Scaramucci's Las Vegas hedge-fund conference is trying to change...
After not hosting his SALT hedge-fund conference last year, SkyBridge founder and former White House spokesman Anthony Scaramucci is gearing up for what he hopes will be another Las Vegas blowout.With...
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Giant hedge fund Citadel is closing its Aptigon stock-picking unit
Eric Felder, the head of Citadel's Aptigon and global credit units, left the Chicago-based hedge fund on Thursday, sources tell Business InsiderCitadel will close its stock-picking Aptigon unit, but a...
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$18 billion hedge fund CQS is targeting America's largest investors with...
CQS CEO Xavier Rolet joined the $18 billion London-based hedge fund in December after taking a year off following his nearly decadelong run atop the London Stock Exchange.Rolet spoke with Business...
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A bunch of hedge fund managers featured in 'The Big Short' are among the...
Several portfolio managers have been cut by Citadel or resigned from the firm after the $29 billion hedge fund closed its Aptigon stock-picking unit last week.Two of the portfolio managers that were...
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