A 29 Year Old Hedge Fund Manager Is Shorting A Deep Sea Treasure Hunting...
Odyssey Marine Exploration Inc. (NASDAQ: OMEX) is a company that dives for ship wrecked treasure and sells it.Ryan Morris is a 29 year-old managing partner of Meson Capital, a San Francisco based hedge...
View ArticleEINHORN: Certain Aspects Of The Market Are Behaving Like We're In A Bubble...
Hedge fund heavyweight David Einhorn, who runs Greenlight Capital, was just on CNBC's "Halftime Report" with Scott Wapner from the inaugural Robin Hood Investors Conference. Earlier today at the...
View ArticleShares Of Herbalife Are Surging Right As Bill Ackman Is Talking About How...
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, just gave another take down of Herbalife at the Robin Hood Investors Conference. It's closed to the media. He's speaking with Bloomberg...
View ArticleCarl Icahn Burns Bill Ackman — Says Things Ackman Is Saying Are The Rantings...
Billionaire investor Carl Icahn has fired more shots at his long-time rival Bill Ackman. Here's what Uncle Carl told Bloomberg TV's Trish Regan earlier today: "I fail to understand how Bill Ackman,...
View ArticleHedge Funds Are Taking Over Brooklyn
Private equity and investment firms in recent years have bought up cheap real estate in markets hit hardest by the housing bust.The goal here isn't to "house flip," but to rent out homes and take in...
View ArticleHere Are The 50 Most Important Hedge Fund Stocks
Goldman Sachs is out with its latest list of the stocks that "matter most" to hedge funds.These stocks are defined as "50 stocks that most frequently appear among the largest 10 holdings of hedge...
View ArticleHedge Funds Have Been Getting Smoked This Year
Not many people are able to invest directly in hedge funds. And that's not necessarily a bad thing.Through Q3 of this year, hedge funds on average have returned a measly 6% year-to-date.This is...
View ArticleHere's Bill Ackman's Massive New Presentation On Why Herbalife Is Doomed
Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, who runs Pershing Square, gave another massive slide-presentation attacking Herbalife.Late last year, Ackman gave a 342-slide presentation on why he thinks the...
View ArticleEinhorn And Loeb Are Having A Solid Year, But They're Still Losing To The Market
Hedge fund hot-shots David Einhorn and Daniel Loeb's fund have had some solid gains in 2013, especially during the month of November.According to DealBook's Matthew Goldstein, Einhorn's Greenlight...
View Article'Quant' Hedge Funds: Computer Says No
Hedge funds looking to spot and ride market trends are hoping for a fresh startIF SOMETHING has not worked for five years, most people would conclude that it was broken. Tell that to the geeks managing...
View ArticleKYLE BASS: My Worst Trade Was One Of The Best Things To Ever Happen To Me
Hedge fund advisor Steven Drobny, the author of global macro books "Inside The House of Money" and "The Invisible Hands," is coming out with another book called "The New House of Money." Drobny has...
View ArticleJim Chanos Is Shorting The Company Behind The Healthcare.gov Debacle
Jim Chanos — who famously shorted Enron before the company collapsed — has a new "large"short position in CGI Group, Newsweek's Lynnley Browning reports.CGI Federal, a wholly owned subsidiary of CGI...
View ArticleHUGH HENDRY: Bitcoin Could Go To $1 Million And I Wish I Could Own It
U.K.-based hedge fund manager Hugh Hendry, the founder of Eclectica Asset Management, made some interesting comments about how he thinks Bitcoin could go to $1 million, Investment Week's Dan Jones...
View ArticleKyle Bass' Hedge Fund Has Taken A Stake In General Motors
Hayman Capital Management, the hedge fund founded by Kyle Bass, has taken a stake in General Motors, Bloomberg reports.A GM spokesman has said they're not aware of Hayman's stake.Hayman says that the...
View ArticleOne Of The SAC Capital Insider Trading Cases Is Coming Down To What The Word...
An interesting thing happened yesterday at the trial of Michael Steinberg, the SAC portfolio manager accused of insider trading.It's a fun lesson in semantics, insider trading, or none of the above....
View ArticleInvestors In Eddie Lampert's Hedge Fund Are Jumping Ship
Eddie Lampert's investment in Sears hasn't been going well, and this news from The Wall Street Journal will only make things worse: Goldman Sachs clients invested with Lampert's hedge fund want...
View ArticleHere's Whitney Tilson's Presentation On What He's Learned From A Dozen Years...
Hedge fund manager Whitney Tilson, who runs Kase Capital, gave a presentation to the Harvard Business School Club of New York this week about the lessons he's learned from short selling. Tilson said...
View ArticleJohn Paulson's Advantage Fund Is Up More Than 29% This Year
Paulson & Co.'s Paulson Advantage Fund has put up some good performance numbers in the month of November, according to CNBC. Paulson Advantage LP (onshore) Fund up 13.2% in November, up 29.5%...
View ArticleHere's Why The Macro Hedge Fund Industry Has Become So Pathetic
Treat this post the same way as you would treat a fat-guy in a pub screaming at the telly when watching a football game.If I ever had a shot at working at a macro HF I am probably about to blow it...
View ArticleStarting A Hedge Fund Is Getting Next To Impossible
The days of calling your rich relatives to raise $3 million to start a hedge fund a la Dan Loeb are over.Citi just released a 45-page report on the hedge fund industry in the United States (where...
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