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But that's not quite true, according to research released today from Just Capital, an independent non-profit co-founded in 2014 by billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones II, Arianna Huffington, and Deepak Chopra.

So says a massive survey of Americans undertaken by billionaire hedge funder Paul Tudor Jones II

The firm has links to Trump's former chief strategist and Breitbart founder Steve Bannon and is partially - owned by billionaire hedge fund manager Robert Mercer.

The group, started by the billionaire hedge fund manager Paul E. Singer, spent more than $ 700,000 on the race.

«We will vigorously defend due process and seniority rights against these attacks by billionaire hedge fund managers.»

Here's a short, 30 minutes video on How The Economic Machine Works by billionaire hedge fund investor Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates.

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April 11 (Reuters)- Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

Citadel is a Chicago headquartered hedge fund manager, founded by billionaire Kenneth Griffin in 1990.

Summary: A U.S. attorney played by Paul Giamatti goes up against a billionaire hedge fund manager, played by Damian Lewis.

The sometimes - activist hedge fund, founded by billionaire Barry Rosenstein, also said it owns about 593,000 shares of Sprouts, which earlier this year held preliminary talks to be taken private by Cerberus Capital Management and merged with its Albertsons Cos. brand, people familiar with the matter said at the time.

Shortly after Caspersen's arrest, The Moore Charitable Foundation, an environmental charity founded by hedge fund billionaire Louis Bacon, confirmed it was a victim.

Nowadays, the top donor to Ryan's leadership PAC is Elliot Management, a hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer.

April 11 - Paulson & Co, the hedge fund firm led by billionaire investor John Paulson, has taken a stake in Viacom Inc as the U.S. media company has started to turn around its business amid a challenging landscape, Paulson told Reuters in an interview.

The news comes about two weeks after Bloomberg reported https://bloom.bg/2qYzgnh that Elliott, the New York hedge fund run by billionaire Paul Singer, had built a position in Micro Focus and plans to push for changes at the company.

Hedge funds run by billionaires Carl Icahn and John Paulson reaped the biggest profits the day Donald Trump was officially declared the winner of the presidential election.

Others spend big bucks to pull off elaborate multi-day affairs, such as the planned three - day New York celebration for 83 - year old billionaire investor George Soros starting Friday that will be attended by more than 500 guests, including hedge fund titans and prominent political leaders.

Buffett, a billionaire investor and outspoken critic of fund managers who profit from high fees at the expense of their clients, bet in 2007 that a Vanguard S&P 500 index fund would beat five funds of hedge funds selected by Protégé Partners over the next 10 years.

Russia has banned a charity founded by hedge fund billionaire George Soros, saying it posed a threat to state security and the Russian constitution.

Solar panel installer SolarCity, which is being bought by Tesla Motors, said it had raised $ 305 million in a cash equity transaction advised by billionaire investor George Soros» hedge fund.

It's an unseemly request by a movie, to ask us to root for the lying, scrambling but extremely well - coiffed hedge fund billionaire weasel played by Richard Gere in the new film «Arbitrage.»

When Summers returned to Washington, this time to the White House, as President Obama's top economic adviser, he prominently mentioned Zimmerman, by then a billionaire hedge fund proprietor, as among his kitchen cabinet of advisers.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

Cambridge Analytica, backed by top Trump donor and hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, was asked in December to turn over documents to special counsel Robert Mueller, as part of his investigation into collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election.

The company was funded by Trump supporter and hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer, and the president's former senior adviser Stephen K. Bannon once sat on its board.

Hedge fund manager Bill Ackman told CNBC on Friday he was approached indirectly by Carl Icahn to purchase the billionaire's stake in Herbalife — Ackman's longtime short target.

Cambridge Analytica is partly owned by hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and played a role in Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and the connection raises continued concerns over the influence Facebook had in the election.

De Blasio got himself noticed by hitting Bloomberg the hardest and giving voice to the millions of struggling New Yorkers who looked at the post-9 / 11 gilded - age excess all around them — the stratospheric rents and impossibly high cost of living, the bank branches and chain stores squeezing out local mom - and - pops, the very skyline remade by gleaming new high - rises catering to hedge - funders and Chinese and Russian billionaires — and worried it could permanently transform the greatest city in the world into an open - air luxury mall for the global super-rich.

Make America Number 1, the pro-Trump super-PAC controlled by hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, has paid law firms associated with Rudy Giuliani $ 563,003 in 2015 and 2016.

The second highest recipient of hedge fund largess was «New Yorkers for a Balanced Albany,» an independent expenditure committee backed by ten billionaires that helped flip the New York State Senate to Republican control in 2014.

According to a report in Politico, Teachout will receive the support of Every Voice, a liberal outside group, and its Super PAC Every Voice Action, funded by the likes of the billionaire hedge - funder George Soros family, failed Congressional candidate Sean Eldridge and Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes.

New York State United Teachers, a union that remains powerful by virtue of its 600,000 members regardless of its losses in the recent election cycle, denounced Cuomo's letter on Thursday, arguing that his apparent priorities — strengthening teacher evaluations, lengthening the probationary period before teachers may get tenure and boosting charter schools — are handouts to pro-charter billionaire hedge funders who give generously to his campaigns.

Both companies are linked to tech - driven billionaires who backed Mr. Trump's campaign: Cambridge is chiefly owned by Robert Mercer, the computer scientist and hedge fund magnate, while Palantir was co-founded in 2003 by Mr. Thiel, who was an initial investor in Facebook.

The company, SCL Elections, went on to be bought by Robert Mercer, a secretive hedge fund billionaire, renamed Cambridge Analytica, and achieved a certain notoriety as the data analytics firm that played a role in both Trump and Brexit campaigns.

And he is one of the very rare breed of Democrats who is not scared off by the Cuomo / Hochul horde of millions of campaign dollars collected almost exclusively from the one percent of corporate polluters, hedge fund billionaires and other rich special interests.

Wilson's 32 - day pre-general election filing shows a $ 37,800 personal contribution to the former hedge fund manager's campaign by the billionaire mayor.

No doubt, it is a dismaying picture that confronts us: British company SCL Group, operating under the brand name Cambridge Analytica with the supervision of Steve Bannon, obtained data collected from Facebook by Cambridge University academic Alexandr Kogan, and used systems built by data scientist and whistleblower - to - be Chris Wylie to train its microtargeting algorithms to nudge scores of already - angry voters towards electing Donald Trump and leaving the European Union — a set of experiments largely bankrolled by US hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer, 90 % owner of Cambridge Analytica.

American Unity Super PAC, which was launched in June 2012 by hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, has announced plans to spend at least $ 2 million between now and Election Day to help protect and promote Republican Congressional candidates... Read

Billionaire hedge fund founder Ken Griffin is pledging $ 1 million to help rebuild Puerto Rico, which was devastated last month by Hurricane Maria.

Make America Number 1, the pro-Trump super-PAC controlled by hedge - fund billionaire Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah, has paid law firms associated with Giuliani $ 563,003 in 2015 and 2016.

It is backed by Robert Mercer, a billionaire Long Island hedge - fund manager who has supported President Trump.

When Gov. Andrew Cuomo had to get to Utah for the debut of his longtime girlfriend Sandra Lee's new documentary on her battle with breast cancer, he hopped on a private plane owned by his big campaign donors, billionaire hedge fund manager Barry Rosenstein and his wife, Lizanne

The report, released by the Hedge Clippers group, says Loeb isn't a «run - of - the - mill Facebook poster: he is a billionaire with extraordinary political and economic influence.»

Two months to the day before Dan Loeb accused Senate Minority Leader Andrea Stewart - Cousins of doing more harm to people of color than the KKK, the billionaire hedge fund manager was scolding Richard Buery, one of NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio's most senior black officials, about his apparent ignorance of the obstacles faced by black children in the city.

In recent years, billionaire pharmaceutical executives and hedge fund managers have made billions in profit by creating...

Opponents of public education — led by a handful of hedge fund and Wall Street billionaires — bought control over the New York State Senate this past election with millions in corrupting campaign cash.

By choosing Goldsmith, the Eton - educated son of a billionaire hedge fund owner, as their candidate against Labour's Sadiq Khan, a son of an immigrant bus driver raised in a council house, the Tories have already allowed Labour to paint this as a choice between «their London and ours».

Mr. Cuomo received $ 50,000 from RFR Holding, which the developer Aby J. Rosen helped found; $ 40,000 from the hedge fund billionaire Bruce Kovner; and, according to an analysis of the filing by the research group, at least $ 175,000 from the developer Leonard Litwin.

American Unity Super PAC, which was launched in June 2012 by hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, has announced plans to spend at least $ 2 million between now and Election Day to help protect and promote Republican Congressional candidates who support LGBT equality.

Both organizations are funded by philanthropist and billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer, who backs LGBT rights, including same - sex marriage and the Employment Non-Discrimination Act (ENDA).