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Rising star Adam Parker lost his top two analysts after a rough start to 2021...
Summary List PlacementAdam Parker's high-flying fund has hit a patch of turbulence.Center Lake Capital, a New York-based firm running more than $650 million, has lost its top two analysts in the last...
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Despite the GameStop saga and Archegos implosion, banks and hedge funds had a...
Summary List PlacementIt's been a dramatic year for financial markets so far. Retail traders pumped up GameStop in January, captivating the financial world and whacking hedge funds who had been betting...
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A notorious short-seller whose firm oversees $644 million unpacks his...
Summary List PlacementUntil the blow-up of London-based Greensill Capital, asset manager John Hempton wasn't having a good few months."I short nonsense stocks and shorting nonsense stocks gave me the...
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Location data firm Placer.ai, which tracks where people shop, work, and live...
Summary List PlacementLocation data company Placer.ai announced today that it has raised a $50 million Series B round. The round was led by Josh Buckley, tech investor and CEO of Product Hunt, and...
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Genius investor Ed Thorp predicted the pandemic's US death toll before a...
Summary List PlacementEd Thorp accurately predicted the US COVID-19 death toll before any deaths were recorded.The investor and gambler stocked up and locked down before the rest of the country.Thorp...
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Citadel poached Citi's head of equity derivatives trading in the US, the...
Summary List PlacementCitadel has poached the head of equity derivatives trading in North America from Citigroup, the latest in a string of buy-side defections from Citi's derivatives unit. Dan...
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After a year of market shocks and monster trading profits, hedge fund giants...
Summary List Placement"These guys have no clue," a senior volatility trader at a top Wall Street bank recalled thinking last March, after President Donald Trump announced a travel ban to Europe and...
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A new China-focused hedge fund is coming from a former Blue Ridge Capital...
Summary List PlacementAfter more than a decade at billionaire John Griffin's Blue Ridge Capital and a few years off, Eric Wong is launching his own hedge fund.The portfolio manager, who is in the early...
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Inside the network of dozens of spin-off hedge funds from billionaire New...
Summary List PlacementSteve Cohen's decades-long career in finance has made him billions of dollars across two different hedge funds and led to the creation of more than 80 other firms.Dozens of people...
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Hedge funds are poaching top volatility traders from Wall Street banks
Summary List PlacementThe derivatives traders that thrived during 2020's once-in-a-decade market shock are now some of the hottest commodities on the street.But unlike recent years, where Wall Street...
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A young star manager from Viking Global has left the $44 billion hedge fund
Summary List PlacementA young star has left Ole Andreas Halvorsen's $44 billion Viking Global.Divya Nettimi, who has worked for Viking since 2014 as an analyst and a portfolio manager, is no longer at...
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A former analyst at $200 million distress investing fund Foxhill Capital sues...
Summary List PlacementFoxhill Capital founder Neil Weiner has been accused by his former analyst Joshua Nahas of insider trading in a new lawsuit filed in a New Jersey district court.Nahas, according...
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The hedge fund manager who blew up his career in a single day after a...
Summary List PlacementAfter nine months, Dan Kamensky's prediction came true.The founder of distressed-debt hedge fund Marble Ridge Capital received a sentence of six months in prison on Friday after...
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$2.3 billion Electron Capital's renewable energy bets paid off last year. The...
Summary List PlacementCount Electron Capital is one of the many firms leaning into ESG as President Joe Biden's administration takes hold. The $2.3 billion hedge fund has long been an infrastructure...
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The SEC has proposed cracking down on blank-check companies. Why the 'SPAC...
Summary List PlacementAfter a yearlong bout of SPAC mania, the red-hot market for blank-check companies is cooling down as regulators direct their attention to it.March was a record-breaking month for...
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A rising star at $8.8 billion Perceptive Advisors breaks down why the biotech...
Summary List PlacementA Perceptive Advisors up-and-comer has keyed in on a rising star in the biotech world.Ellen Hukkelhoven, an analyst at $8.8 billion Perceptive, presented at Wednesday's Sohn...
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Billionaire D1 founder Dan Sundheim explains how January's Reddit-fueled...
Summary List PlacementDan Sundheim is taking Gabe Plotkin's advice.Sundheim, the billionaire founder of D1 Capital, which manages $20 billion, said at the Sohn Investment Conference Wednesday that his...
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Inside the crazy world of whistleblower lawsuits, where anonymous tipsters...
Summary List PlacementEditor's note: This story was originally published on March 29, 2021 and later updated to include news about the CFTC's whistleblower program.When Swedish billionaire Thomas...
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The headhunters leading Wall Street's systematic-trading and data-science...
Summary List PlacementThe market for quant and data-science specialists has perhaps never been hotter. And the technologists, researchers, scientists, and traders developing cutting-edge investment...
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Here are 9 startups in $65 billion hedge fund Tiger Global's portfolio that...
Summary List Placement$65 billion hedge fund Tiger Global has been on a startup investing spree this year, averaging more than one venture-style investment per business day in 2021, Insider reported....
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