Sentences with phrase «by hedge fund investors»

Those efforts have more recently been backed by hedge fund investors: When Mr. Cuomo was preparing to run for governor in 2010, he met with a team of their representatives.

But as the housing market recovered along with Fannie and Freddie's profits, lawsuits filed by hedge fund investors raised the possibility that owners of the housing giants» stock might be owed the tens of millions in earnings the companies had been sending to the Treasury in recent quarters.

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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.

By contrast, traders (hedge funds) and small investors are expressing historically high levels of bearish sentiment (both groups are known for following trends and being wrong at turning points).

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.

Once again, this unique meeting will welcome the best - known hedge fund managers, as well as more than 100 of the largest global investors, along with illustrious political and economic commentators, appearing in engaging and insightful panels moderated by II and CNBC editors.

Consumer products maker Newell Brands has agreed to add three independent directors to its board, including one proposed by hedge fund Starboard Value, ending a months - long proxy fight with the activist investor.

It appears none of Shkreli's hedge fund investors actually lost money in the end, but he was so widely reviled by the time of his trial that it was difficult to find an unbiased jury to hear the case.

The globe's 25 top - earning hedge - fund managers raked in an astonishing $ 11 billion last year, despite producing disappointing investor returns, according to an annual list released Tuesday by Institutional Investor's Alpha minvestor returns, according to an annual list released Tuesday by Institutional Investor's Alpha mInvestor's Alpha magazine.

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.

But a growing portion of the money flowing into hedge funds is coming from pension funds, run by investors who are more interested in consistent returns than outsized ones.

Steve Cohen started the trend in the early 1990s when he hired the late psychiatrist Ari Kiev for his hedge fund SAC Capital, and Tony Robbins, the world's most famous performance coach, entered the financial world around the same time when he was hired by renowned investor Paul Tudor Jones.

The Fed is risking its credibility among investors by refusing to consider a sooner interest rate hike, hedge fund manager David Gerstenhaber tells CNBC.

Pandora has been urged to explore a sale by Corvex Management LP, a hedge fund run by Keith Meister, a protégé of activist investor Carl Icahn, after it disclosed a 9.9 percent stake in Pandora in May.

The schemes detailed in the suit included having Retrophin «enter into sham consulting agreements» through which the company paid investors who were «defrauded» by Shkreli's hedge fund.

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.

Specifically, Shkreli is accused of defrauding investors in his hedge funds by making «material misrepresentations» about the performance and assets under management.

While his explanation may include a bit of vanity, the stocks those investors owned in common went down — including Zoetis, more than a fifth of whose shares are controlled by hedge funds.

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.

The Federal Reserve is risking its credibility among investors by refusing to consider a sooner interest rate hike, hedge fund manager David Gerstenhaber told CNBC on Friday.

At a panel discussion hosted by BlockchainDriven Thursday night, Morgan Hill, an investor at Attis Capital, announced that he was launching a new cryptocurrency hedge fund called AxionV in August.

Some investors, recalling how a few bold hedge funds became rich and famous by betting against the U.S. housing market, now are attempting to repeat the trick in Canada.

And, he says, Hunter and his army of retail investors did nothing that hasn't been repeatedly done by investment bankers, bondholders and hedge funds during other CCAAs, such as the restructuring of Hamilton steelmaker Stelco, where self - serving parties threatened the future of thousands of workers in order to turn a profit after buying voting power from scared creditors.

The bulk of Salix's remaining shares were held by institutional investors, large mutual and hedge funds.

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.

Hedge fund managers, once viewed as the rockstars of the financial world, are coming under fire by investors for poor performance.

The vast majority of this recent boom in prices is not being driven by VCs but rather by hedge funds, mutual funds, corporate investors and other sources of non-traditional venture funding.

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This may include having held a senior position at another top - quality brand hedge fund, having spun out of a top investment bank proprietary trading desk, or having been seeded by a well - known investor.

Other investor funds solicited by Simmons were used by the owner of the Hedge Fund in the Ponzi - like scheme to make payments to prior Hedge Fund investors, Berman said.

VAI is controlled by hedge fund Cyrus Capital Partners, founded by investor Stephen Freidheim.

Southeastern Asset Management, another institutional investor, worked with Mr. Icahn on another offer to buy Dell, and also supported an effort by Barington Capital Group, a hedge fund, to shake up the retailer Dillard's.

Most of that victim's funds were, within minutes of their receipt by the hedge fund, wired to the earlier investor.

This thought system has been embraced not only by hedge fund activists like Ackman but also by institutional investors more generally, along with many boards, managers, lawyers, academics, and even some regulators and lawmakers.

Long - short hedge fund Valiant led the investment round, joined by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital.

The only question is whether the shares are held by individual investors, hedge funds, pensions, mutual funds, or another entity.

Great pricing is a result of volume buying — something you receive thanks to the many institutional - sized orders placed by hedge funds, pensions funds, institutional investors, and high - net - worth brokerage clients all trading alongside you on the platform.

First, the veto right by the institutional investors would screen for the companies for which curbing hedge fund activism can arguably increase value.

«Despite the continued support of attacks by activist hedge funds by the Chair of the SEC, and many «Chicago school» academics who continue to rely on discredited statistics, there is growing recognition by institutional investors and prominent «new school» economists of the threat to corporations and their shareholders and to the economy of these attacks -LSB-...]

We discuss implications for disclosure by institutional investors; regulation of their fees; stewardship codes; the rise of index investing; proxy advisors; hedge funds; wolf pack activism; and the allocation of power between corporate managers and shareholders.

It also has been a sometime tool of activist hedge and pension funds for legitimate corporate governance changes, but left - leaning state and local pension funds and union pension funds have often used it to achieve political or social ends not shared by other investors.

According to the just - published 2016 Rich List of the World's Top - Earning Hedge Fund Managers by Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine, eight of the top ten earners fall into the «quant» category, and half of the 25 richest of the year are quants.

After months of investor concern regarding SunEdison's buying spree, a lawsuit by hedge fund manager David Tepper stopped a loan that would have enabled the acquisition of Vivint Solar, and the house of cards began to fall, ending in a messy bankruptcy that threatened to drown its two yieldcos.

Max is backed by its founder and sophisticated investors including family offices, a Fortune 500 CEO, and investment professionals from leading hedge funds, real estate and private equity funds.

Other investor funds solicited by Simmons were used by the owner of the Hedge Fund in the Ponzi - like scheme to...

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Buffett, who has argued that investors — both small and large — would be better off putting money in low - cost index funds, wrote in his 2005 shareholder letter that active management professionals (hedge funds), as a group, would underperform the returns achieved «by rank amateurs who simply sat still.»

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Instead, he would essentially sanction the complete turnover of the shareowner's proxy to managers to facilitate their own entrenchment, with the possible exception that some rights to submit proxy proposals might still be maintained by hedge funds, the only shareowners recognized in Gallagher's speech as representing the rights of «ordinary» investors.»

In the March 2009 version of their paper entitled «Higher Risk, Lower Returns: What Hedge Fund Investors Really Earn», Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu measure actual hedge fund investor returns by integrating the returns of the funds they hold with the timing and magnitude of their capital flows into and out of these fHedge Fund Investors Really Earn», Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu measure actual hedge fund investor returns by integrating the returns of the funds they hold with the timing and magnitude of their capital flows into and out of these fuFund Investors Really Earn», Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu measure actual hedge fund investor returns by integrating the returns of the funds they hold with the timing and magnitude of their capital flows into and out of these fhedge fund investor returns by integrating the returns of the funds they hold with the timing and magnitude of their capital flows into and out of these fufund investor returns by integrating the returns of the funds they hold with the timing and magnitude of their capital flows into and out of these funds.