Billionaire investor Leon Cooperman almost became a not-so-great dentist
Leon Cooperman might have missed out on being a billionaire.The Omega Advisers CEO sat down with OneWire's Skiddy von Stade to chat about his history, failures and successes — including a eight-day...
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Warren Buffett revealed this 'great philosophy of life' in a letter to a...
In November 2007, hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman sent Warren Buffett two presentations he was preparing to give at the Value Investing Congress.One of Cooperman's slide decks was highly critical of...
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David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital loses 1.5% in a 'challenging quarter'...
Closely-followed hedge fund manager David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital second quarter letter to investors has just been sent out.And so far, it's been a challenging year. In the second quarter,...
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DAVID EINHORN: 'House of Cards' appeared to be scripted to compete with...
David Einhorn has just sent out Greenlight Capital's second-quarter letter to investors. After going briefly over the fund's performance (down 1.5% in the second quarter and 3.3% for the year), Einhorn...
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This is the new brag among Wall Street interns
It used to be that the brightest young Wall Streeters were the ones who landed internships at Goldman Sachs.Now the standard has changed, and the most coveted internships on the Street are at hedge...
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HEDGE FUND INTERN: A 'monkey' could be a junior banker at a place like...
Sharp young Wall Streeters are increasingly finding ways to avoid doing time at investment banks.They're trying to build careers on the buy-side, or hedge funds and private equity firms,...
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The most 'interesting' investment in Bill Ackman's portfolio that 'no one has...
Activist investor Bill Ackman, CEO of the $18 billion hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management, says the most interesting investments in his portfolio right now are the mortgage originators Fannie...
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Why Bill Ackman doesn't buy tech companies
Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, the CEO of Pershing Square Capital, participated in a panel at the CNBC Delivering Alpha Conference on Wednesday, and he explained why he doesn't invest in tech...
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The hedge fund manager behind the epic Olive Garden presentation is going...
Starboard Value's Jeff Smith recommended Macy's at the CNBC/Institutional Investor's Delivering Alpha Conference at the Pierre Hotel in New York City. This is the first time the activist investor is...
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Suddenly, Wall Street is obsessed with something that used to be an afterthought
While the world was seemingly at peace — before the financial crisis, war in Eastern Europe, and chaos in the Middle East — Wall Street's masters of the universe could keep geopolitics in the recesses...
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BILLIONAIRE HEDGE FUND MANAGER: McDonald's culture 'has to be turned upside...
Activist titans Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund Management and Bill Ackman of Pershing Square weighed in on how to fix McDonald's.The largest global fast-food chain has struggled in recent years, especially...
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The hedge fund billionaire at war with Argentina just lost his battle with...
Hedge fund manager Paul Singer of Elliott Management just lost a major legal battle to South Korea's most powerful dynasty.That family is the Lees, who, through their massive Samsung empire, control...
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How the most powerful female hedge fund manager sees trading changing in the...
Leda Braga, 48, is considered the most powerful female hedge fund manager in the world.In January, she launched her fund, Systematica Investments, a computer-driven fund.With $8.8 billion in assets,...
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Bill Ackman wants to put a tennis court on the roof of Pershing Square's new...
We've heard that hedge fund titan Bill Ackman wants to put a tennis court on the roof of Pershing Square Capital's new office building.This month, Ackman and commercial real-estate firm The Georgetown...
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Meet the 78-year-old Nobel Prize-nominated physicist starting a hedge fund...
A 78-year-old physicist who helped discover a fundamental constituent of matter is starting a hedge fund.George Zweig is looking to launch his quant firm, Signition, in New York later this year, The...
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Hedge funds have never hated gold this much (GLD)
Hedge funds have never hated gold this much. On Friday, data from the Commodity Futures Trading Commisssion, or CFTC, showed that hedge funds are net short gold for the first time since this data was...
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One of the richest men in the world is backing a startup that ranks Wall...
The ability to generate conclusions about hedge fund managers’ behavior could be the tipping point for whether big investors double down in hard times or call for redemption. Picking billion-dollar...
View ArticleHere's why billionaire fund manager Leon Cooperman thinks the MBA is worth it
When presented with the age old question — which is more worth it, the MBA or the CFA — Leon Cooperman, the famed CEO of Omega Advisors, didn't skip a beat."In my case, the MBA," he said.Cooperman sat...
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David Einhorn is getting slammed by gold (GLD, GLX, GLRE)
Gold is slamming hedge fund manager David Einhorn.Greenlight Capital's main hedge fund has fallen about 3% year-to-date, driven in part by the slump in gold prices, according to a Bloomberg report on...
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There's a billionaire hedge fund manager in the new Google CFO's Wall Street...
Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, the founder of $10 billion Omega Advisors, is super bullish on Google and its new CFO. The 72-year-old investor said in his fund's second-quarter letter...
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