Bill Ackman just confirmed an idea about stocks that had Wall Street totally...
Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman has confirmed a dark narrative about the stock market that Wall Street was freaking out about at the end of last year.Ackman's fund, Pershing Square, had a...
View ArticleBill Ackman is very sorry he didn’t sell at the top (VRX, BRK.B, BRK.A, PSQ)
Bill Ackman wishes he had sold some of his winners in 2015. In a letter to Pershing Square shareholders published Tuesday, the hedge fund manager outlined a number of the struggles his firm faced in...
View ArticleA hedge fund manager shares the 10 things that could surprise the market this...
North Carolina-based fund manager Mark Yusko, the chief investment officer of $3.7 billion Morgan Creek Capital Management, revealed the 10 things he thinks could surprise the market in 2016. He shared...
View ArticleBillionaire hedge fund manager Seth Klarman explains what makes a successful...
Billionaire value investor Seth Klarman is one of the most successful hedge fund managers of all time.Klarman, the 58-year-old founder of $27 billion Boston-based Baupost Group, ranks No. 4 on the...
View ArticleMeet the world's 7 most successful hedge fund managers
London-based fund of funds LCH Investments, a subsidiary of Edmond de Rothschild Capital Holdings Limited, recently released its annual top 20 "most successful money managers" list for 2015.The list...
View ArticleFBI AGENT: 8 clues to tell if someone is a liar
FBI Special Agent David Chaves spoke at an event called "The FBI on Wall Street" on Thursday evening. The event was hosted by the New York Hedge Fund Round Table at the Penn Club of New York.Since...
View ArticleHow hedge fund traders shared inside information while playing 'Call of Duty'
On Thursday evening, FBI Special Agent David Chaves gave a presentation on insider trading at an event hosted by the New York Hedge Fund Round Table at the Penn Club of New York.Since 2009, the...
View ArticleOne of the most senior women in the hedge fund industry is going it alone
Paulson & Co. portfolio manager Samantha Greenberg is leaving the $16.2 billion multi-strategy hedge fund to launch her own fund, Reuters' Lawrence Delevingne reports.Greenberg is a partner and the...
View ArticleHedge funds can't even fake that things are good right now
An incredibly telling story at Reuters about Morgan Stanley’s hedge fund conference in Palm Beach this past week, where enthusiasm and confidence seem to have fallen to an all-time low.And the weird...
View ArticleCREDIT SUISSE: Here's just how disastrous a Brexit could be for the UK economy
The referendum on whether or not to stay in the EU is the UK's main political event of 2016.It's hard to predict with any accuracy the economic and financial effects of the referendum given uncertainty...
View ArticleSome of the biggest hedge fund names in the world are loading up on bets...
Some of the biggest hedge fund names in the world are loading up on bets that China will sharply devalue its currency.According to a Wall Street Journal report published Sunday, Kyle Bass, Stanley...
View ArticleThis is exactly how the FBI convinces hedge funders trading on inside...
When the FBI wants to get a hedge fund portfolio manager to be a cooperating witness in an insider-trading case, they'll literally follow that person everywhere, according to FBI Special Agent David...
View ArticleHere's the evidence that you get what you pay for when investing in hedge funds
The past two years have been incredibly underwhelming for the hedge fund industry.Hedge funds fell by 3.64% on average in 2015 and by 0.58% in 2014, according to data from Hedge Fund Research.That...
View ArticleHedge funds are promising something they probably won't be able to deliver
Hedge funds seem to be promising something that is too good to be true, according to Barclays' capital-solutions group, which studies this stuff.Barclays says that since 2008, hedge funds have been...
View ArticleHedge funds are saying they can't make money on 42 of the most important...
Hedge funds aren't supposed to just generate a few percentage points of return for you — they're supposed to hit it out of the park.They're supposed to generate "alpha."But according to a Morgan...
View ArticleBillionaire hedge fund manager Seth Klarman explains what makes a successful...
Billionaire value investor Seth Klarman is one of the most successful hedge fund managers of all time.Klarman, the 58-year-old founder of $27 billion Boston-based Baupost Group, ranks No. 4 on the...
View ArticleHedge fund managers have been in a 'race to the bottom'
The balance of power between investors and hedge fund managers has tilted in favor of the investors since the financial crisis.Hedge fund performance has been mixed, which means those who invest in...
View ArticleThese are hedge fund strategies everyone wants in on
Investors have piled into a select few hedge fund strategies lately.Barclays' capital solutions group analyzed how hedge funds' assets under management have grown in the last two years.Barclays...
View ArticleWatch the 18-year-old tennis player once sponsored by Bill Ackman hit a...
Francis Tiafoe, the 18-year-old tennis pro once sponsored by hedge fund titan Bill Ackman, won a point with an amazing trick shot on Tuesday night.It seems Tiafoe pretended to have given up on a point...
View ArticleA hedge fund has laid out why it is closing — and it is enough to set alarm...
Orange Capital, the $1 billion event-driven hedge fund led by Daniel Lewis and Russell Hoffman, is closing after 10 years."We are proud of Orange's successful track record spanning over ten years. As...
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