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SCORECARD: These are the hedge funds that are killing it this year
The computers keep winning.It's been a terrible start to the year for hedge funds, with stock, bond and commodities markets all getting beat up.The average hedge fund is down 3.85%, according to Hedge...
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S&P thinks Carl Icahn might be junk
Icahn Enterprises (IEP), the investment fund helmed by Carl Icahn, may be cut to junk by S&P.The ratings house put his investment fund on credit watch negative. What this means is that there's a...
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Basketball legend Coach K perfectly summed what separates great players — and...
Someone who allocates money to different hedge fund managers is similar to a basketball coach — you have to know how to pick the great players.North Carolina-based fund manager Mark Yusko said in a...
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A hedge fund HR boss says too many young people are making this error and...
More and more young candidates for hedge fund positions aren't being completely honest on their résumés.Of course, they're getting caught, and as expected, they're not landing a job they otherwise may...
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VALEANT IS TANKING (VRX)
Embattled Canadian drugmaker Valeant Pharmaceuticals has restated its earnings results following an internal review, the company said in a press release.Valeant said that it believes "approximately $58...
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Kyle Bass gave back most of the investor money he raised for his big pharma...
Texan hedge fund manager J. Kyle Bass, the founder of Dallas-based Hayman Capital, gave back most of the $700 million he raised from investors for his big pharma short, the Financial Times reports.The...
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These are the 25 stocks hedge funds have been shorting like crazy (ESRX, DIS,...
Hedge funds have been betting against Walt Disney, General Electric, Target, Chevron, and ConocoPhillips.Those are some of the short positions highlighted in new research from Goldman Sachs, which put...
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A 37-year-old hedge fund manager had a monster first year running his $1.5...
Former SAC Capital star portfolio manager Gabe Plotkin had a monster first year running his own hedge fund.Melvin Capital, a $1.5 billion long/short equity hedge fund, finished 2015 up an impressive...
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A giant hedge fund asked Wall Streeters what worries them most, and this is...
Two Sigma, the $30 billion hedge fund that uses artificial intelligence and advanced technologies to find investment opportunities, asked a bunch of Wall Street analysts what they're worried about....
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Hedge funds are getting ready for Armageddon
Hedge fund investors are battening down the hatches."Hedge fund positions bear all the imprints of significant risk aversion already,"Societe Generale strategists said Wednesday in a note. "The...
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A bunch of hedge fund titans spoke at a private event in New York — here's...
Some of the best-known hedge fund managers in the world gathered for a private investment conference at the Waldorf Astoria in New York on Tuesday to discuss their market views.No one predicted a...
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The hottest hedge fund strategy tells you everything you need to know about...
Investors clearly can't make up their minds about where stocks are heading in 2016.The good news is that there's a hedge fund strategy for that, and it's set to be a very popular approach.Fundamental...
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The stock market is upside down
Investors are nervous. That ought to spell bad news for the stocks investors think are overvalued. But it's not working out that way. In fact, the stocks with the largest bets against them have been on...
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A top-performing hedge fund manager used a quote from the Wall Street movie...
London-based hedge fund manager Russell Clark, an investment manager and partner at $2.75 billion Horseman Capital Management, says he is more uncertain about the direction of the market than at any...
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Argentina's 15-year nightmare is almost over
Argentina has come to an agreement to pay a group of holdout hedge fund creditors who invested in the country after its economic collapse in 2001.The holdouts, led by Elliott Management's Paul Singer,...
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HEDGE FUND MANAGER: There are lots of Gordon Gekkos on Wall Street, and that...
Value investor Guy Spier, a Warren Buffett disciple and founder of Zurich-based Aquamarine Fund, said that he might have served the world a lot better had he studied something else in school."I think...
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China's latest move to keep cash in the country sticks it to foreign...
China is pressing pause on a scheme that allowed wealthy citizens access to investments outside the country, the Financial Times reports.The country has put a Shanghai-based program called the...
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A $19 billion hedge fund has put one theme at the heart of its investment...
Hedge fund manager Jeffrey Ubben, the cofounder and CEO of $19 billion investment fund ValueAct Capital, has been investing in companies where there's an opportunity to cut out the so-called...
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DAVID TEPPER: 'We don't start things just to start things'
SunEdison, the solar power company that has seen its stock fall 83% in the last six months, is crashing yet again on some disappointing news.The news is that Appaloosa Management, the hedge fund helmed...
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Former hedge fund manager Phil Falcone spoke in public for the first time in...
Former hedge fund manager Philip Falcone said that there's "an awful lot of mediocrity" these days in the hedge fund space.On Monday, Falcone resurfaced at the Alpha Hedge East conference in Florida...
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