Sentences with phrase «of big hedge fund»

A plausible argument could be made that upstate hick Senators have incentives to block progress in the NYC schools so that they have greater reason to move towards Cheaters Schools — another source of big hedge fund donors for the TEAPubs Senators!

Against a background of more volatile markets and worries that some of the biggest hedge fund managers are nursing losses this year, many in the audience focused on the smaller, better - performing investors like Oleg Nodelman.

Like what Bruce Kovnar (founder of one of the biggest hedge fund in the world) said in the famous trading book «Market Wizards: Interviews With Top Traders ``:

About 50 percent of the big hedge funds and private equity money that's come into this sector will exit and 50 percent will stay for the long term.

Not exact matches

April 15 - A unit of U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management said it now held the largest stake in Whitbread Plc, making it the second activist in recent months to draw attention to Britain's biggest hotel and coffee - shop operator.

Kate Kelly is a reporter for the New York Times who covers the many facets of Wall Street: personalities, big profits and losses, banks, hedge funds, and regulation.

Increasingly, there's a new technological race in which hedge funds and other well - heeled investors armed with big - data analytics instantly analyze millions of Twitter messages and other non-traditional information sources to buy and sell stocks faster than smaller investors can hit «retweet.»

Back in 2013 when a buyout took Dell private, hedge fund Magnetar Capital was one of the biggest opponents of the deal.

While Berkshire Hathaway, the investment vehicle of the «Oracle of Omaha,» revealed that it purchased 2.3 million shares of Charter Communications in its latest quarterly filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, several big - time hedge fund managers also offered a quarterly look into their own portfolios.

Like so many frauds, Sam Israel's big con — a decade - long deception that cost investors millions and ended with the hedge funder on the lam as one of America's Most Wanted — began with a small act of self - delusion.

Ackman bailed out of the stock in March, but not before it played a big role in two years of double - digit portfolio losses for his $ 11 billion hedge fund firm Pershing Square Capital Management.

«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.

Alternatives like hedge, private equity and venture capital funds were relatively secretive, niche vehicles for a privileged group of wealthy individuals and big institutions.

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.

Branson controls 24.8 percent of the company, while hedge fund Cyrus Capital Partners is the biggest shareholder with a 32.8 percent stake.

«One of the biggest problems that Dodd - Frank has caused is, it has restricted the lending to small businesses,» hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci, a member of Trump's transition team, told NPR last week, echoing comments the president - elect made earlier this month to The Wall Street Journal.

But then it dawned on him: Zoetis was a big holding in Bill Ackman's hedge fund, Pershing Square, which was in the middle of its own nosedive because of an 80 % drop in its holdings of Valeant Pharmaceuticals vrx.

The stocks that hedge funds have largely ignored tend to be much larger than the hotels, have less debt, grow earnings more slowly but consistently, and pay bigger dividends (an average yield of nearly 3 % for the S&P 500 constituents, compared with 2 % for the index overall).

Investors pulled $ 15.1 billion out of hedge funds in the first quarter, the industry's biggest withdrawal since the recession in 2009, according to Hedge Fund Resehedge funds in the first quarter, the industry's biggest withdrawal since the recession in 2009, according to Hedge Fund ReseHedge Fund Research.

At the same time, Elliott's assets have nearly doubled to roughly $ 39 billion, including $ 5 billion it raised in a 23 - hour span in May, making it more than twice the size of the second - biggest activist hedge fund, Dan Loeb's Third Point.

The number of big - name investors calling a bond bear market added hedge fund legend Paul Tudor Jones on Thursday, following similar calls from Bill Gross, Bill Miller and Jeff Gundlach.

April 15 (Reuters)- A unit of U.S. activist hedge fund Elliott Management said it now held the largest stake in Whitbread Plc, making it the second activist in recent months to draw attention to Britain's biggest hotel and coffee - shop operator.

CalPERS already has moved to lower its risk of big investment downturns last year by pulling out its entire $ 4 billion investment in 24 hedge funds and a half - dozen hedge funds of funds.

I once had drinks with a hedge fund guy whose firm had been big into the kind of mortgage - backed securities that brought on the financial crisis.

Wilmot runs through a bunch of investment strategies that might see renewed interest in light of these financial conditions, ranging from equity funds that offer some sort of hedge against volatility to big - data - driven quant funds.

In December 2014, hedge fund Glenview Capital Management bought a big stake in Avis Budget, just over 5 % of outstanding shares.

Klarman is the founder and portfolio manager for The Baupost Group, one of the world's biggest hedge funds.

Druckenmiller also highlighted fellow hedge fund billionaire George Soros as his second mentor, noting that Soros taught him the importance of making just a few big bets (that is, holding concentrated positions instead of being diversified).

RadioShack, a long - ailing 94 - year - old electronics chain, filed for bankruptcy protection on Thursday after striking a deal to sell up to 2,400 of its stores to the wireless service provider Sprint and a hedge fund that is its biggest shareholder.

But the revelation this week that Mr. Thiel was covertly backing Mr. Bollea's case as well as others has raised a series of new questions about the First Amendment as well as about the role of big money in the court system — specifically the emerging field of litigation finance, in which third parties like hedge funds and investment firms pay for other people's lawsuits.

Kalla points out that as the ranks of hedge funds investing in crypto offerings have grown, the opportunity to place big bets has shrunk.

A number of factors — such as rising US interest rates, the recurrence of big fluctuations in global currencies, and the widening dispersion of equity returns across sectors and regions — may have helped to create an increasingly conducive environment for hedge - fund strategies, which have seen a positive turnaround in performance in recent quarters.

Dan Morehead an early cryptocurrency adapter and CEO of the hedge fund Pantera Capital said in an interview on Bloomberg yesterday that the funds biggest present position is in the Korean blockchain Icon.

In the spring of 2001, to the surprise of his colleagues, Seo left his big Wall Street firm and opened a hedge fund — which, he announced, wouldn't charge its investors the standard 2 percent of assets and 20 percent of returns but a lower, flat fee.

Once the hedge funds and arbitrageurs get too big a position, you lose control of your company.

In the past, Forex — which is the world's biggest market for currency trading — was the preserve of hedge funds, global corporations and finance firms, but now individuals are trading on it over the internet.

A growing exodus from hedge funds extended to two of the biggest names in the industry Tuesday, Tudor Investment Corp. and Brevan Howard, as disenchanted investors increasingly shun what was once the hottest place to put money.

A lot of money is also paid to «professionals» who skim huge salaries and benefits to put money to work with hedge funds and private equity funds, most of which will be wiped out in the next big bear market.

Barclays believes 2016 could be the best year on record for gold - related ETFs and other funds, with many big - name hedge fund managers, from Stan Druckenmiller to Paul Singer to Bill Gross, singing the praises of the yellow metal.

But panelist Daniel Greenhaus, chief global strategist at institutional trading brokerage BTIG, who makes appearances on Bloomberg TV and works with clients in the hedge fund world, said that hedgies take a longer view and avoid the noise in the blogosphere: «If you talk to George Soros, all he wants is the big picture view of QE tapering: «When will the Fed stop buying back bonds?

In the following paragraphs we outline the thoughts of one insightful observer, Ray Dalio, the Chairman of Bridgewater, the world's biggest hedge fund.

Chris has secured a rank ahead of investor Carl Icahn and hedge funder Ray Dalio both of whom made it to the headlines after comparing Bitcoin with a price bubble and Fidelity CEO Abigail Johnson who herself is a big - time bitcoin aficionado.

Summary of the Robin Hood conference: Einhorn, Tepper, Druckenmiller etc [ValueWalk] Profile of Renaissance Technologies» secretive Medallion Fund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWFund [Bloomberg] Reflections on the Trump Presidency, after the election [Ray Dalio] How T. Boone Pickens sits tight in the riskiest of businesses [NYTimes] The next generation of hedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [Valuehedge fund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWfund stars: data - crunching computers [NYTimes] Treasury officials are warning hedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [Valuehedge funds could create the next big crisis [Vox] Bill Ackman's 2016 fortune: down, but far from out [NYTimes] Omega's Einhorn sees Trump's policies boosting stocks [Reuters] Tourbillon's Jason Karp says Trump will make stock pickers great again [Reuters] John Paulson got Trump elected and now has favor to ask [Vanity Fair] Jim Chanos says Valeant was biggest loser ever for hedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [Valuehedge funds [CNBC] Credit Suisse said raising $ 2 billion for hedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [Valuehedge fund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWfund stakes [Bloomberg] Tyrian Investments to close [Reuters] Hedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueHedge fund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWfund strategies no longer correlated with equity returns [Investing] Female fund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWfund managers are a rarity across the globe [Morningstar] This is why alternatives are worth it [ValueWalk]

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Two of President Trump's biggest boosters, American hedge fund billionaire Robert Mercer and former White House aide Steve Bannon, had invested in Cambridge Analytica.

Flaherty wished «bad luck» to any big U.S. hedge funds betting short - selling the Canadian market in the belief the housing market will crash, in hopes of making a profit.

Being a big fan of Jack Schwager's Wizard series of investment books, I eagerly read his newest book, Hedge Fund Market Wizards, and was not disappointed.

A major figure in the Addyi saga is William A. Ackman, the hedge fund manager and one of Valeant's biggest backers.

A look at some of the biggest donors of the election cycle: TOP DEMOCRATS — Tom Steyer, a retired San Francisco hedge fund billionaire who...

And the so - called bigger guys join the bandwagon: the Bank of America - Merrill Lynch January fund manager survey reveals that hedge fund net equity exposure has risen to 49 %, its highest reading since 2006.