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NEW YORK, April 23 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers at the high - profile 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York pitched stock ideas on Monday that they said should benefit from the growing clout of the millennial generation, ranging from online food ordering to homebuilders.

NEW YORK, April 23 - Hedge fund managers at the high - profile 2018 Sohn Investment Conference in New York pitched stock ideas on Monday that they said should benefit from the growing clout of the millennial generation, ranging from online food ordering to homebuilders.

He is among the only folks from the traditional hedge fund world to dive into crypto, most notably following the lead of Mike Novogratz, a former portfolio manager at Fortress.

The best ideas of some press - shy hedge fund managers who spoke at the 2017 New York Sohn Investment...

At last year's gathering, Trump was unofficially represented by hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, who would later last just 10 days as the White House communications director.

NEW YORK, May 3 - Hedge fund managers will take center stage at a conference in New York on Thursday to call out companies they are wagering against.

New York hedge fund managers from Bill Ackman and David Einhorn to Silicon Valley venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya pitched their top investment ideas Monday at the Sohn Investment Conference, the annual gathering of some of Wall Street's highest - profile stock pickers.

A sizable contingent of hedge fund managers are shorting Tesla, or betting that its share price will fall, including some who have also presented on stage at the Sohn Conference, including famed short - seller Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates, who has called Tesla the «anti-Amazon.»

One of the hedge fund managers behind an activist campaign at United Airlines explained why he's bullish on the company, now officially called United Continental Holdings (ual).

The only female hedge fund manager to present at the Sohn Conference, Debra Fine suggested Canada - based content producer DHX Media (dhxm) was better positioned than Netflix to capitalize on television programing for kids, including its plans to bring back the 1990s hit, The Teletubbies.

Jim Chanos, the hedge fund manager who recognized the fraud at Enron before it collapsed, is a notable bear on China.

Palihapitiya, a venture capitalist turned hedge fund manager who is also a former Facebook executive, has built up some credibility since his first appearance last year at the conference, which benefits pediatric disease research: Amazon stock is up some 34 % in the meantime.

Stephen Carl, head trader at Williams Capital Group: «Whatever trigger points hedge funds and money managers have, they are acting on it now.

Facebook stock was a controversial subject at the annual Sohn Investment Conference in New York Monday, where hedge fund managers and top investors take the stage to present their best investment ideas.

Robert Chapman Jr., a hedge - fund manager in California, took a potshot at his former friend, observing, «I've heard it said that yoga is Dan's form of paying penance for what he does while outside the home, whether it be the office or elsewhere.

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn at Greenlight Capital has made plenty of headlines in demanding that Oppenheimer open up the spigots and issue preferred shares that Einhorn believes would increase Apple's stock by one - third.

Hedge fund manager Jim Chanos of Kynikos Associates told CNBC that he is looking at a possible beat against Netflix and other entertainment content providers.

Famed bond fund manager Bill Gross attacked the use of negative rates as an attempt to mask the symptoms of an unhealthy global economy, while Ray Dalio, the head of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates, has recently argued that negative rates will be ineffective at boosting growth.

McDonald's shares jumped in March after hedge - fund manager Larry Robbins of Glenview Capital Management said in a Bloomberg article the fast - food chain's market value could rise at least $ 20 billion by converting into a real estate investment trust.

Kumar fainted and was hospitalized after the authorities showed up at his Silicon Valley home, so it took a few hours to emerge that he'd been charged with fraud and conspiracy for tipping off a Wall Street hedge fund manager.

«As a reality check, Tesla is worth twice as much as Ford, yet Ford made 6 million cars last year at a $ 7.6 billion profit while Tesla made 100,000 cars at a $ 2 billion loss,» wrote Thompson, who has consistently outperformed the market as a hedge fund manager.

I've got something to prove,» the billionaire told a room full of hedge fund managers and investors at the annual SkyBridge Capital industry conference in Las Vegas, known as SALT.

Novogratz is formerly a macro hedge fund manager at Fortress Investment Group.

Activist investor and hedge fund manager John Paulson has joined Valeant Pharmaceuticals International's board, a move that comes at a time when the embattled Canadian drugmaker is restructuring itself to repay debt.

«I think this [crypto] is going to be the biggest bubble of our lifetimes by a long shot,» the former Fortress hedge fund manager said at a CoinDesk bitcoin conference.

The owner of fast - food chains KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut, Yum Brands (yum) spun off its China business last year at the behest of Corvex hedge fund manager and Carl Icahn protégé Keith Meister.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman recommended First Data, Shire, United Continental Holdings, Hess and WPX Energy at the Delivering Alpha conference on Tuesday.

Though he complimented Ackman's intelligence on several occasions and said he did not believe they were still actively fighting, Icahn denied giving the hedge fund manager a hug at the same conference two years earlier.

Within Fortune senior editor Roger Parloff's canonical feature about hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's audacious, indefatigable attack on Herbalife — an at times seemingly pyramid - scheming nutrition company — the following quote rings out: «Who the hell does he think he is?»

The hedge fund manager, whose Yelp stake was worth about $ 10 million at the end of 2015, has made at least several million dollars in the stock just this week, after telling investors that he believes the company's revenue could double in the next three years.

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.

So when some 15 years later — as a portfolio manager at one of the most influential activist hedge funds — Cohn launched a hostile bid to acquire Novell, he mentioned the accolade in his letter to the board.

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.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Bill Ackman's new investment idea Monday wasn't very new at all: a bullish pitch for Howard Hughes Corp..

NEW YORK, May 3 (Reuters)- Hedge fund managers will take center stage at a conference in New York on Thursday to call out companies they are wagering against.

On the other hand, his tax plan makes at least a vague reference to eliminating a loophole that benefits private equity and hedge fund managers.

At investment firms and hedge funds, too many managers take too much of a share of their clients» returns, he told me.

On Tuesday the financial services powerhouse said Jeff Wecker, a former senior manager at Bridgewater Associates, the Connecticut - based hedge fund, will join the firm in the new role of chief data officer, according to a memo seen by Business Insider.

And earlier this year, The New York Times published a profile on James Passin, a hedge fund manager at Firebird Management, who is trying to bet on the country.

Leonard is a former portfolio manager and principal at Brecken Capital LLC, a hedge fund focused on domestic equities.

The HFRI Indices are based on information self - reported by hedge fund managers that decide, on their own, at any time, whether or not they want to provide, or continue to provide, information to HFR Asset Management, LLC (HFR).

Neuberger Berman, a money manager, and Jana Partners, a hedge fund, have pressed for change at Whole Foods.

Cambridge Analytica also has strong ties to Trumpworld: Robert Mercer, a hedge fund billionaire and conservative political donor, owns the data firm, and Steve Bannon — the man who would become Trump's campaign manager in 2016 — was a vice president there at the time of the breach.

Two months ago at the annual Benjamin Graham Conference in New York City, billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman told the audience that their industry was on the ropes.

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«I'd put the odds at pretty good for him to go private,» said Jay Rogers, president of Irvine, California - based Alpha Strategies Investment Consulting Inc., which advises hedge - fund clients as well as managers seeking to raise money.

In my last post I had a bit of a controversial pop at a brilliant and successful billionaire hedge fund manager; Jim Simons.

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