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Jim Chanos just presented a short idea that will probably upset Carl Icahn
Short seller Jim Chanos just shared a short idea at the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference in Las Vegas on Thursday, and it may upset another hedge fund titan: Carl Icahn.Chanos' short is Cheniere, a...
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Hedge fund billionaire Jim Chanos is on a roll
Billionaire short-seller Jim Chanos says he was betting against Lending Club before its capitulation this week."We had problems with the model itself," the Kynikos Associates founder told Bloomberg...
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Nelson Peltz made a killing betting on Pepsi, and now he's out
Activist hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz has sold his stake in PepsiCo.Shares in the company were down 1.5% around 3:20 p.m. on Friday.Peltz took a stake in PepsiCo in late 2012, and later pushed the...
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An idea that had Wall Street totally freaked about stocks last year just...
What goes up must come down. What is built up eventually breaks down.Last year, the idea that the companies that made themselves huge doing deals over the last few years thanks to low interest rates...
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I went to the biggest Wall Street party of the year and everyone was miserable
You know, it was almost funny. It was the biggest party on Wall Street — a three-day fete that involves heads of state, celebrities, party after party, and tons and tons of casino time — and the entire...
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Hedge fund billionaire Jim Chanos called out his entire industry for failing...
Hedge fund managers are charging too much for not enough, according to short-selling legend and 30-year hedge fund veteran Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates."Really, it's befuddled me, and I'm in the...
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The richest Wall Streeters in the world want you to give up your billionaire...
There are only so many ways to make billions of dollars on Wall Street.This is what we call "f--- you money."This is the kind of money you can buy a plane with. That plane can take you anywhere you are...
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Here are the stocks the biggest hedge funds in the world bought and sold to...
With a large chunk of hedge fund reporting season behind us, we now have a clear picture of what the biggest funds in the world bought and sold in the first quarter of 2016.S&P Global Market...
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Hedge funds are racing out of the stock market
Hedge funds sold a lot of stock in the first quarter of 2016."The top 50 hedge funds sold off US equities for the second consecutive quarter. Funds unloaded nearly $55 billion worth of shares in U.S....
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GOLDMAN: Hedge funds are betting billions that these 16 stocks are going to...
Hedge funds are known for making big bets, and there are none bigger than giant short positions.In Goldman Sachs' quarterly "Hedge Fund Trend Monitor," the bank tracked the movements of 841 hedge funds...
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Goldman Sachs explains why hedge funds aren't magic anymore
When everyone is the same, no one is special. And when no is special, no one can make magic happen.And as Goldman Sachs has pointed out in a recent report, that's what is happening to hedge funds. They...
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A 'hedge fund apocalypse' is coming
It's the end of the hedge fund world as we know it, or so it appears.K.C. Nelson, the lead portfolio manager at Driehaus Capital Management, has lain out a grim assessment of the industry in a...
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This is what Jim Chanos says he's telling his clients about China right now
Jim Chanos, the founder of Kynikos Associates, has spent years telling the world that the Chinese economy is a "treadmill to hell" running on debt.Now, with a few big market scares coming from China...
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GOLDMAN: These are the 21 stocks that matter most to hedge funds (DAL, HCA,...
Presenting: the hedge fund darlings of the first quarter. Goldman Sachs recently published its Very Important Position (VIP) list of stocks that appear the most among the funds' largest 10 holdings....
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Kyle Bass is getting whooped by what he called a 'massive opportunity'
Hayman Capital's Kyle Bass' flagship Hayman fund is down 7%, according to Gregory Zuckerman and Rob Copeland over at The Wall Street Journal.The fund has been dragged down by the investor's bullish...
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It may be the end of hedge funds as we know it
There's a colloquialism that hedge fund managers are "masters of the universe."These investors take big risks betting on the market, but the reward has usually been pretty significant.Let's not forget,...
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Hedge funds are getting help from pollsters so they can place big bets on the...
Hedge funds and banks are commissioning private opinion polls on voters' intentions in the upcoming EU referendum so they can trade on the result, according to the Financial Times.The paper reports...
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Here's how Goldman Sachs' client list has changed
Gary Cohn, president and chief operating officer at Goldman Sachs, just spoke at the Deutsche Bank Global Financial Services Investor Conference.His presentation focused on the bank's institutional...
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There are only 2 ways to survive the hedge fund reckoning
If your hedge fund is going to survive this brutal period for the industry, it's going to take either legendary talent, or an out-of-this-world investment idea with no correlation to the market.So...
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Billionaire Steve Schwarzman has no pity for hedge funds
Hedge funds have been having a rough time recently, but billionaire Steve Schwarzman of the Blackstone Group has very little pity for them.The hedge fund industry is grappling with issues such as...
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