Sentences with phrase «led by hedge fund»
A group of shareholders, led by hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, challenged the premise of the assessment, arguing it should have assumed a demand for repayment was made before nationalisation.
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U.S. chipmaker Qualcomm raised its offer to buy NXP Semiconductors to $ 127.50 per share on Tuesday, and said it has the backing of the shareholder group led by hedge fund Elliott Management that opposed its previous proposal.
The group, led by hedge funders who are active in the charter - school movement, is hosting the conference at Whiteface Lodge on May 4 to 6.
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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.
After witnessing a 95 % decline in the pharmaceutical company's share price amid a series of scandals, Valeant's board, led by former shareholder and hedge fund manager Bill Ackman, smartly tied Papa's compensation to a recovery in the stock price.
Markets then surged — meaning most of the funds were hurt by the pain leading up to that point, but missed an ensuing upswing because of the hedges.
ESL Investments, the hedge fund led by the CEO of Sears Holdings, Eddie Lampert, has made a proposal to buy some of the retailer's assets.
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 bid was raised after the company was pressured by shareholders led by activist hedge fund Elliott Management.
U.S. drugmaker Turing Pharmaceuticals, led at the time by hedge fund manager Martin Shkreli, caused outrage last year by raising the U.S. price of Daraprim, an old anti-infective drug, by more than 5,000 % to $ 750 a pill.
Prior to that, he researched media, advertising and online education companies for a hedge fund within Fukoku Life New York and led sales for The Capital - Gazette, a large media and communications group now owned by Tribune Publishing.
Sears, once a giant of America's consumer - led economy, was run into the ground by hedge - fund king Eddie Lampert.
As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.
Long - short hedge fund Valiant led the investment round, joined by existing investors Andreessen Horowitz, Bessemer Venture Partners and FirstMark Capital.
Activist hedge fund Jana, led by Barry Rosenstein, disclosed a nearly 9 percent stake in Whole Foods in April.
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Led by chief investment officer Jonathan Horton, NWQ is a specialist money manager that invests across a range of hedge funds operated by other groups.
In the base metals complex, only nickel and tin traded higher for the quarter.4 A slow start to Chinese restocking coming out of the Chinese New Year holiday weighed on prices for copper and aluminum, both of which saw their worst quarterly results in years, while zinc and lead prices also declined.4 The London Metal Exchange (LME) Index, which tracks the three - month futures prices of all six metals, fell 6.3 %.4 LME copper -LRB--7.4 %, to US$ 6,714 per mt) and other industrial metals erased some of their 2017 gains, falling alongside a sharply decelerating expansion in China's manufacturing activity — sparking demand concerns and greater caution among hedge funds and other speculators who cut their net long positions in the metal.4 Outside the LME, US steel was buoyed by trade policy changes.
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.
Their hedge fund, Long Term Capital Management, blew up in 1998 and had to be bailed out by a government led consortium.
Howard Stirk Holdings, owned by conservative commentator Armstrong Williams, would buy some stations, as would New York - based hedge fund Standard General led by Soo Kim.
«Emerging markets hedge fund performance has surged in recent months, led by funds with exposures to Latin America and Russia, driving the strongest monthly performance gains in over a decade, as commodities and regional equities recovered from steep early year losses,» stated Kenneth Heinz, president of HFR.
The first time candidate and former hedge fund manager also managed to, as Siena spokesman Steve Greenberg put it, «bring home» Republicans, and is now leading among his fellow GOPs by 62 points, up from 36.
As part of an aggressive new voter - targeting operation, Cambridge Analytica — financially supported by reclusive hedge fund magnate and leading Republican donor Robert Mercer — is now using so - called «psychographic profiles» of US citizens in order to help win Cruz votes, despite earlier concerns and red flags from potential survey - takers.
All of them are men, led by Republican shipping executive Richard Uihlein and Democratic former hedge fund manager Tom Steyer.
King noted Goldman was recently accused of fraud by the SEC in its trading of Collateralized Debt Obligations and related derivatives in the lead - up to the financial collapse, ading: «Were you involved with trading CDOs or the other derivatives credited with causing the financial meltdown either at Goldman Sachs or at any of your hedge fund jobs?»
Rep. Alan Grayson on Friday shrugged off a suggestion by the Senate's top Democrat that he immediately drop out of the Florida Senate race after a published report detailed his work leading a hedge fund while serving in Congress.
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.
A whirlwind of ruthless ambition, power struggles, greed and deception ensues as Tourneuil's brutal ascent is jeopardized by a hostile takeover attempt from a large American hedge fund led by Dittmar Rigule (Gabriel Byrne), erotic distractions from international supermodel Nassim (Liya Kebede), and adversaries with an agenda for destruction.
«Romero leads the California chapter of Democrats for Education Reform, an interest group funded by Wall Street hedge fund managers who support charter schools.»
The senior teachers had tenure, despite the fact that «reformers» (led by ConnCAN, StudentsFirst, and hedge fund managers) did their best last spring to diminish their tenure and to tie their evaluations to test scores.
As Matthew Fleischer noted in the Frying Pan News (reprinted by the Huffington Post) that hedge funder Tilson has followed the Waltons» lead: «in a 2010 documentary, A Right Denied, Tilson suggested that DFER was created because of Walmart patriarch John Walton's support of vouchers and «school choice.»»
The misguided push for «reform» is currently being led not by Obama and Duncan, but by Trump and DeVos, giving Democrats an opening to shift gears on education — though they'll lose some of that hedge - fund money.
And, as long as these non-unionized schools are funded by the likes of hedge fund operators, the Walton Foundation (Walmart) and the Broad Foundation, the likelihood that they will ever be teacher led will remain pretty much of a mirage.
Since 2003, Opalesque is the leading news service on hedge funds and alternative investments: the only hedge fund news read by the elite hedge fund managers.
Artisan, which rarely launches a bad fund, has registered plans for its niche - est fund, Artisan Thematic, led by an experienced hedge fund guy.
In 2011, Anna was named one of 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds by Ernst & Young LLP.
Front page stories at The New York Times and The Washington Post have also highlighted Steyer's past investments in the fossil fuel industry and the profits accrued by the hedge fund he used to lead, noting the apparent inconsistency with his political advocacy.16, 17 Bill McKibben who helped inspire Steyer's opposition to the Keystone pipeline and who consults with the billionaire activist, offers an opposing perspective: «After years of watching rich people manipulate and wreck our political system for selfish personal interests, it's great to watch a rich person use his money and his talents in the public interest.»
Firm - wide managing director Andrew Grech (pictured) is to step down with immediate effect as part of a recapitalisation plan led by New York hedge fund Anchorage Capital, the firm's main lender.
How wonderful, then, for there to pop up a story combining: Trump, Putin, Bannon, hedge fund billionaire and AI researcher Robert Mercer, an ominous sounding digital company, Cambridge Analytica, led by a gobby Etonian, then smash it together with Vote Leave, Farage, and the battle to control the referendum (best described by Shipman in All Out War).
How wonderful, then, for there to pop up a story combining: Trump, Putin, Bannon, hedge fund billionaire and AI researcher Robert Mercer, an ominous sounding digital company, Cambridge Analytica, led by a gobby Etonian, then smash it together with Vote Leave, Farage, and the battle to control the referendum (best described by Shipman in All Out War).
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Perhaps one of the most innovative new funds emerging from this space is the Brooklyn - based blockchain startup ConsenSys, lead by Ethereum co-founder Joe Lubin, which just debuted a hybrid VC - hedge fund called ConsenSys Ventures.
«Kik is by far the largest consumer company to enter the cryptocurrency space, and this is a seminal moment for the industry,» said Ryan Zurrer, principal and venture partner at leading cryptocurrency hedge fund Polychain Capital.
Since 2003, Opalesque is the leading news service on hedge funds and alternative investments: the only hedge fund news read by the elite hedge fund managers.
President Obama and at least two leading Republican presidential hopefuls support ending this supposed «loophole» for hedge fund managers by increasing the tax on carried interest from the capital gains rate to the individual tax rate.
He's been sounding an alarm again: The Deerfield Beach, Fla., consultant to the housing industry and to hedge funds that have been investing in residential real estate says Florida's gradual housing recovery — led by wealthy investors and those hedge funds — is on the verge of going south again.