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The FT To The President Of Argentina: 'Grow Up'
This is kind of fun, actually.The Financial Times has had it with the dispute between a group of hedge fund managers and Argentina's President, Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner. And so — the normally...
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Hedge Funder Stan Druckenmiller Wants Every Young Person In America To See...
Iconic hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller, the founder of Duquesne Capital Management, has been vocal for the past several months about the issue of generational theft. Druckenmiller, who...
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Phil And Lisa Maria Falcone Were Spotted At The New York City Ballet Last Night
Last month, people were wondering where hedge fund manager Phil Falcone's wife, Lisa Maria, had disappeared to because she had been noticeably absent from society events ever since the Met Ball in...
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Why Warren Buffett Called The Fed 'The Greatest Hedge Fund In History'
In a world in which all the matters is "scale", the ability to Martingale down on losing bets as close to infinity as possible (something which JPMorgan learned with the London Whale may not be the...
View ArticleGeorge Soros Got Married Again This Weekend — Photos Found On Instagram...
Yesterday, billionaire hedge fund manager George Soros, 83, married 42-year-old health care consultant Tamiko Bolton at his estate in Bedford, New York. According to the New York Post, the wedding...
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Former COO Of Kynikos Associates, Doug Millett, Has Died
Doug Millett, a former COO and partner at hedge fund Kynikos Associates, has succumbed to his battle with cancer. He passed away yesterday afternoon. Kynikos founder and CEO Jim Chanos informed the...
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Bill Ackman Is Starting A Scholarship To Help MBA Students Do Something Other...
Hedge fund billionaire Bill Ackman, the CEO of $12 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, is funding a scholarship program aimed at helping social entrepreneurs receive an MBA from the University...
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Bill Ackman Has A Few Ideas For A High School Class About Investing
We caught up with hedge fund manager Bill Ackman at an event in the Upper East Side last night for the Oxford Pershing Square Graduate Scholars Programme launch. For Ackman, a large part of his...
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Hedge Funds Have Started To Use This Perfectly Legal Strategy To Get An Edge
With sagging profits in recent years, hedge funds have looked to any possible strategy for an investment edge.Now they are using one readily available to everyone — the Freedom of Information Act.The...
View ArticleMaverick Capital CEO Explains How He Founded His Hedge Fund At Age 28
Finance career site OneWire scored another great interview with one of the hedge fund world's Tiger cubs—this time with Lee Ainslie, the rarely-interviewed head of Maverick Capital. In the video,...
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Billionaire Hedge Fund Managers Say It's Sad Larry Summers Won't Get The Fed...
Billionaire hedge fund managers Marc Lasry and Glenn Dubin both said during a panel at the Bloomberg Markets 50 Summit that Larry Summers would have made a great Fed chair nomination.Summers withdrew...
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CLIFF ASNESS: Most Traditional Hedge Fund Strategies Probably Aren't Worth...
One of the highlights of yesterday's Bloomberg Markets 50 Summit (my notes here) was, without a doubt, the conversation between alternatives king Cliff Asness (AQR) and Lawrence M. Schloss, who is the...
View ArticleSAC Capital Is Performing Pretty Well For A Hedge Fund Under Such Intense...
Legal problems haven't stopped SAC Capital from doing what it normally does — make serious cash.Reuters' Katya Wachtel reports that, as of Friday, the hedge fund is up 13% YTD.STEVEN A. COHEN'S SAC...
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Steve Cohen Got A 'Super Duper Weenie' Hot Dog Truck To Serve Free Food To...
This is by far the best line in the Wall Street Journal's latest article on Steve Cohen's SAC Capital Advisors... In an effort to boost morale, Mr. Cohen arranged in July for a local "Super Duper...
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Bill Ackman's Latest Target Is Already Looking For A New CEO (APD)
Bill Ackman is back. The billionaire activist investor's latest target Air Products said this morning that it's looking for a new CEO.Three new independent directors are also joining the industrial gas...
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George Soros' Ex-Wife Is Selling Her Gorgeous NYC Apartment For $39 Million
George Soros' ex-wife, Susan, is selling her five bedroom apartment on New York's Upper West Side for $39 million, says the Wall Street Journal.In addition to 6,000-square-feet and a view of Central...
View ArticleNever-Before-Seen Video Of Steve Cohen Sounding Confused About Insider...
In January(ish), PBS' investigative documentary series "Frontline" will air its special on SAC Capital, the once high-powered hedge fund that Friday agreed to plead guilty to insider trading and pay a...
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How To Hire For Your Brand New Hedge Fund
One of the benefits of working as an investor is that you don’t necessarily need to manage large teams to make money. Many of the most well-known hedge funds have very, very low headcounts, with far...
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A Massive Company Just Rolled Over For Carl Icahn And Its Stock Is Trading Up
This is how you play perfectly nice with Carl Icahn.The world's largest off-shore drilling company, Transocean, has just agreed to a deal with the activist investor that pays shareholders and gives The...
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TRADER: I've Witnessed Dan Loeb Get Nasty — And That's How His Sotheby's...
While I have no experience as an Activist investor, I suspect that its is very much an art rather than a science. Some of the most successful activists are nothing short of very rich big mouths, while...
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