GoldenTree Asset Management's longtime top lawyer is retiring, and the firm...
Summary List PlacementBarry Ritholtz, the general counsel of $41 billion investment firm GoldenTree Asset Management, is retiring after nearly two decades as the firm's top lawyer, sources told...
View Article29-year markets vet Ted Seides has interviewed hundreds of investment chiefs....
Summary List PlacementTed Seides, in multiple ways, has been surrounded by the biggest names in the investing space for a long time now. It all started out in 1992 when he began his career at the Yale...
View ArticleCrypto hedge funds gained 35% in February as bitcoin soared – following a...
Summary List PlacementCryptocurrency hedge funds posted their best gain since 2019 in February, rising 35%.Data provider Eurekahedge said the growing industry has around $3.4 billion under...
View ArticleMost hedge funds run by massive asset managers like BlackRock and Janus are...
Summary List PlacementOf BlackRock's five hedge funds listed in HSBC's Hedge Weekly report, just one has been above average through the first two and a half months of 2021.The world's largest asset...
View ArticleBalyasny technology portfolio manager Elliott Wilson is heading to $3.7...
Summary List PlacementElliott Wilson is taking his talents to a different hedge fund in San Francisco.Wilson, a technology portfolio manager for Balyasny in the Bay Area, is joining the $3.7 billion...
View ArticleJonathan Soros' family office is spinning out a quant fund from portfolio...
Summary List PlacementJonathan Soros is setting up one of his top quants.John Holloway is spinning out of the Jonathan Soros' family office, JS Capital, where he has been a portfolio manager for...
View ArticleWhen hedge fund billionaire Thomas Sandell paid $105 million to settle a tax...
Summary List PlacementWhen Swedish billionaire Thomas Sandell reached a $105 million tax evasion settlement with New York State, one lucky tipster walked away with $22 million. Thanks to a Civil...
View ArticleInside the sprawling web of billionaire Julian Robertson, whose legendary...
Summary List PlacementNearly two decades after Julian Robertson closed Tiger Management to outside investors, his fund still constantly pops up in headlines and conversations within the hedge fund...
View ArticleRetail trading was said be a risk to markets during the GameStop saga, but...
Summary List PlacementRetail traders on Reddit's r/wallstreetbets forum took a lot of heat during the recent GameStop saga for coordinating on the forum to pump the price of their favorite stocks....
View ArticleThe man at the heart of the Archegos fiasco is a 'Tiger cub' and devout...
Summary List PlacementBill Hwang's Archegos fund was reportedly hit by margin calls, sparking a brutal sell-off.The "Tiger cub" is deeply religious and believes he's doing God's work by investing.Hwang...
View ArticleInside a hedge fund implosion: How Archegos pushed the limit on risky trades...
Summary List PlacementThe most striking thing about the implosion of Archegos Capital Management, the family office of Tiger Cub Bill Hwang, was not the suddenness of the crash but how innocuous its...
View ArticleHedge funds are raking in big bucks from their private markets bets. Here's...
Summary List PlacementA new fund, from Deerfield's Alex Karnal and Bridgewater's Brian Kreiter, is jumping on the hybrid train.Braidwell — which sources say is still in the early days of getting set up...
View ArticleArchegos imploded and wiped billions off the market, turning the spotlight on...
Summary List PlacementThe dramatic implosion of Archegos Capital Management has turned the spotlight on family offices.These usually conservative financial institutions are effectively unregulated, but...
View ArticleThe world's biggest investors have realized fixed income won't generate the...
Summary List PlacementLow interest rates means high hedge fund flows.The hedge fund industry — which began the year with the most assets it has ever had, with more than $3.6 trillion — often has its...
View ArticleCredit Suisse's head of equities trading is stepping down as the bank braces...
Summary List PlacementThe head of equities sales and trading at Credit Suisse is stepping down, according to a person with knowledge of the move, as the bank grapples with what could be a loss...
View ArticleAnother Archegos-like hedge fund implosion is highly likely and could come...
Summary List PlacementGuggenheim's Scott Minerd said financial markets may be in for yet another hedge fund implosion."It is highly likely that we are going to have another situation like that," he...
View ArticleHedge fund manager and TikTok sensation Alpesh Patel breaks down the 3...
Summary List PlacementIf you've ever been down the rabbit hole that is financial TikTok — commonly known as #fintok — you might recognize Alpesh Patel OBE, or his handle @greatinvestments.Patel, a...
View ArticleLone Pine, Candlestick, and Holocene among the big-name hedge funds hit hard...
Summary List PlacementMarch was not pleasant for many hedge funds.Big-name managers like Lone Pine, Holocene, Candlestick, Suvretta, and more lost money as industry-wide alpha — or returns beyond the...
View ArticleBalyasny poaches a top derivatives trader from Goldman Sachs as demand for...
Summary List PlacementBalyasny Asset Management has poached a top volatility trader from Goldman Sachs as demand for equity derivatives pros heats up.Travis Potter, a managing director in equity...
View ArticleCredit Suisse reins in hedge fund limits following $4.7 billion loss tied to...
Summary List PlacementCredit Suisse is reining in limits on hedge funds following the $20 billion Archegos Capital meltdown, according to a Bloomberg report.The financial giant will absorb a $4.7...
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