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Carl Icahn just ripped into the CEO of AIG for not taking his recommendations...
Billionaire Carl Icahn just ripped into AIG's CEO for not being willing to take what Icahn called "the bold steps" required to move the company forward.Icahn, who owns more than 42 million shares of...
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Billionaire activist Paul Singer has taken a big stake in Alcoa (AA)
Elliott Management, the $27 billion hedge fund let by Paul Singer, has taken a large stake in aluminum maker Alcoa. According to CNBC's David Faber, Elliott now holds a 6.5% stake in the company. The...
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Hedge funds' top stock picks haven't been smoked this badly since the...
Hedge funds' favorite bets in the stock market have been getting roughed up."From August through October, hedge fund favorite stocksposted their worst relative returns outside of 2008," wrote David...
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These are the 25 stocks that hedge funds love the most right now (AGN, AAPL,...
Hedge funds are loving Apple, Amazon, Time Warner Cable, Alphabet, Facebook and Allergan. That is according to some research from Goldman Sachs, which put together a "Very Important Long Position...
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GOLDMAN: Hedge funds are betting billions that these 19 stocks are going down
While most investors in the stock market are looking for prices to go up, many hedge fund managers are betting billions of dollars that some stock prices will go down.Goldman Sachs just released its...
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DEUTSCHE BANK: It would be 'foolish' for AIG to listen to 'activist agitator'...
At the end of October, hedge fund billionaire and activist investor Carl Icahn wrote a note to insurance behemoth AIG's CEO outlining his proposals for the company, and then followed that with another...
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How to spy on hedge funds
Having a rough year?Quit whining, you pansy. At least you’re not Bill Ackman…The legendary activist investor’s Pershing Square Holdings portfolio has lost roughly 25% this year. Big Boy Bill has made...
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A booming Wall Street business is about to be tested for the first time (LC,...
The marketplace-lending business has boomed in the post-financial-crisis era, with loan volumes swelling and the leading companies going public.The growth of the market — which matches borrowers with...
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A 'Tiger Cub' hedge fund seeded by Julian Robertson is closing
Tiger Veda Management, a so-called Tiger Cub hedge fund, is shutting down after 11 years, according to a memo sent to clients from the fund's CEO.The fund will return 80% of the capital on December 31,...
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David Einhorn's hedge fund has dropped 20.6% this year
Hedge fund manager David Einhorn, the founder of Greenlight Capital, is on track for his second losing year in his fund's 19-year history.According to Reuters' Svea Herbst-Bayliss, Greenlight's main...
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A hedge fund that was once one of the world's largest is now returning money...
BlueCrest Capital, the once-massive hedge fund led by Michael Platt, will immediately start to return all outside capital to investors, according to a letter.The 15-year-old fund plans to operate as a...
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David Tepper sent out a rare angry letter about one of his undisclosed stock...
Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper sent out a rare public letter to the board of one of his holdings, TerraForm Power, a company that owns and manages solar-energy projects.Appaloosa, Tepper's...
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Wall Street's getting crushed by a form of financial engineering you've...
On August 6, billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman took the unusual step of dialing into an earnings call for one of his fund's holdings and asking a question.It was a second-quarter earnings...
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The 'Fund Manager of the Decade' is trading in and out of these stocks
Investment managers with over $100 million under their control must report their holdings on a quarterly basis to the Securities and Exchange Commission on form 13F within 45 days of the end of the...
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There's finally a limit to how much people put in hedge funds
For awhile there, I started to doubt one of the basic tenets of capitalism and investing: Money flows to where it is treated best.While the hedge fund industry as a whole (though not all individual...
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Ricky Sandler's hedge fund just made a killing on its Keurig Green Mountain...
Eminence Capital, the hedge fund manager led by Ricky Sandler, has just made hundreds of millions of dollars on its Keurig Green Mountain long position.On Monday morning, the coffee K-cup maker...
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One of David Einhorn's winning shorts may have just been wiped out
One of the stocks hedge fund manager David Einhorn has been recently short is being taken private at a 78% premium.On Monday, Keurig Green Mountain Coffee, the maker of K-cups, said it's being acquired...
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Hedge funds are having trouble hiring, and it's changing the Wall Street...
Hedge funds are increasingly finding it difficult to hire good people.That's according a big report on hedge fund hiring trends that Barclays sent out to clients last month.The 24-page report, prepared...
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OIL-TRADING 'GOD': Now is not the time to exit the market
Astenbeck Capital, the energy and commodities hedge fund led by oil trading "god" Andrew J. Hall, is on track for its worst year ever.The fund fell 10% in November and is now down 26.3% year-to-date,...
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Meredith Whitney is running money again
Meredith Whitney, the former financial crisis era banking analyst-turned-hedge fund manager, is running money again after she called it quits in the hedge fund game this summer. Bloomberg's Max Abelson...
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