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Former Bain & Co. and Sagard Capital partners are launching a...
The former Bain & Co. and Sagard Capital executives Anil Shrivastava, Dan Friedberg, and Michael Braner are raising $400 million for a hedge fund called 325 Capital, sources told Business...
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Tech companies have raised billions of dollars from outside of venture...
As venture capital-funded companies get bigger, large investors outside of Silicon Valley like Fidelity, Wellington Management and T. Rowe Price are doing more funding in the last stage of private...
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Ken Griffin's Citadel is losing a longtime money-manager and the COO of its...
Faron Schonfeld, COO of the Citadel's global equities arm, and Brian Conn, a longtime portfolio manager, are both leaving Ken Griffin's firm, sources tell Business Insider.Citadel has wooed several...
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Lone Pine Capital stock-pickers explain why they're investing in Tiffany and...
$19 billion hedge fund manager Lone Pine Capital categorizes companies as young disruptors, disrupted, or "compounders" when deciding whether to go long or short.Young disruptors include recently...
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Humans are beating machines, and Pershing Square and Greenlight are crushing...
Bill Ackman's Pershing Square, David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital, and $1.4 billion 12 West Capital Management are some of the hedge funds that are flying high so far this year. Quants haven't exactly...
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BlueMountain's head of fundamental credit is leaving the firm. Here's one of...
$18.5 billion hedge fund manager BlueMountain is losing its head of fundamental credit, Omar Vaishnavi, who has been at the firm for a decade.Vaishnavi led three teams — distress and special...
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BlueMountain's biggest backer is reportedly considering a sale of its...
Affiliated Managers Group, an asset manager that partners with and takes stakes in other money managers, is considering selling its majority stake in $18.5-billion hedge fund BlueMountain, Bloomberg...
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Legendary short-seller Jim Chanos: Uber and Lyft went public because they had...
The billionaire short-seller Jim Chanos says the current market environment is similar to the dot-com bubble of the early 2000s but not as dangerous as 2008."I'm stunned at the number of huge...
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BlueMountain's biggest backer is reportedly considering a sale of its...
Affiliated Managers Group, an asset manager that partners with and takes stakes in other money managers, is considering selling its majority stake in $18.5-billion hedge fund BlueMountain, Bloomberg...
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AMG is offloading its majority stake in struggling hedge fund BlueMountain...
Affiliated Managers Group sold its majority stake in Andrew Feldstein's BlueMountain Capital to Assured Guaranty, a Bermuda-based municipal bond and infrastructure insurer, for $91 million.The deal is...
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BlueMountain's new owner just revealed what the future holds for the...
An investor presentation from Assured Guaranty outlines the focus for Andrew Feldstein and his BlueMountain team at their new owner. BlueMountain will have a bigger focus on collateralized loan...
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Balyasny's quant head is out as the $6 billion hedge fund undergoes a...
Dmitry Balyasny is changing his systematic-investing team, sources told Business Insider, and the first big move is the departure of its head, Ulrich Brandt-Pollmann.Brandt-Pollmann had been with the...
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From an army of traders in Long Island to quants around the world: What's...
Billionaire Steven Schonfeld's hedge fund was quick to adopt algo-trading strategies and now has 75 portfolio managers across the world. Schonfeld Strategic Advisors has been open to outside capital...
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Balyasny just cut 10 people running a $2 billion book. The hedge fund axed...
Dmitry Balyasny's hedge fund has cut its 10-person Synthesis team, which used a mix of quant and fundamental stock-picking techniques and ran a $2 billion book of business, sources told Business...
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What it's like to launch a hedge fund when even the biggest managers are...
Launching a hedge fund in 2019 hasn't been easy, and several people who are either raising capital or have recently launched gave us an inside look at the process. More funds have been liquidated...
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Hedge funds are cozying up to Uber but snubbing Lyft (UBER, LYFT)
Big name hedge funds bought up big Uber stakes during or shortly after the company's initial public offering in May, regulatory filings disclosed this week show. Lyft, meanwhile, saw many managers trim...
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GE was the most popular industrial stock for hedge funds last quarter. Here...
Hedge funds scooped up more shares of General Electric in the second quarter than any other company in the industrial sector. The funds were most likely trying to buy the dip as the stock has shed more...
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Meet the 8 people with new ideas about data, fees, and tech who are shaking...
The hedge fund game is dominated by big players, and it can be tough for true innovators to carve out a niche. Here are eight people making their mark with new twists on fees, data, ESG investing, and...
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A Viking Global hedge fund is helping startups turn into unicorns. Now it's...
Viking helped data-backup startup Druva Technologies push into unicorn status by leading a $130 million funding round earlier this summer. The $30 billion hedge fund firm is opening its Viking...
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GOLDMAN SACHS: Recession fever has put hedge funds' most beloved stock trades...
Hedge funds are crowding into a handful of stocks and increasing their use of leverage at the same time, according to Goldman Sachs.With recession fears at a fever pitch and market liquidity still...
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