Sentences with phrase «stakes in hedge»

The fund also owns stakes in hedge - fund firms Marathon Asset Management, Magnetar Capital Partners, Solus Alternative Asset Management and Senator Investment Group.

Under Volcker, U.S. banks are generally forbidden from owning stakes in hedge funds and private equity funds, since ownership interests could allow them to indirectly participate in proprietary trading.

If they were to arrange a stake in a hedge fund, many of which charge a so - called 2 and 20 arrangement whereby the client pays 2 % of assets per annum plus 20 % of profits, and it's going to be almost entirely mathematically impossible for the investor to beat the broader stock market.

Not exact matches

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 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.

The following are some of the hot stocks and sectors in which hedge fund managers either took new positions or exited existing stakes in the first quarter.

Elliott Advisors now has over a 6 percent stake in FTSE 100 - listed Whitbread, the hedge fund said in a statement on Saturday.

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.

The billionaire co-founded PayPal in 1998, and through Founders, he's taken stakes in prominent companies like SpaceX and crypto - focused hedge funds.

Wednesday's hearing featured Pearson, Schiller, and Ackman, whose hedge fund Pershing Square owns a 9 % stake in Valeant.

In June 2010, it sold a 10 % stake directly to Toronto activist hedge fund, West Face Capital Inc., notorious for cracking the whip on troubled companies.

«Dataminr feeds are like table stakes right now: Most hedge funds need to have it,» says Santo Politi, a founder of Spark Capital, a venture capital firm that was an early backer of Twitter and has a majority stake in a two - year - old hedge fund, Tashtego, that trades on signals from social media and other nontraditional data.

Third Point: The hedge fund run by Daniel Loeb disclosed Thursday that it bought more than 45 million shares of Ally Financial (ALLY) during the second quarter, giving Third Point a 9.5 % stake in the auto lender.

After buying North America's largest mountain resort chain for US$ 2.8 billion in 2006 (around half with debt), the hedge fund has seen its equity stake dwindle to almost nothing.

Hedge funds such as Elliott Management Corp and D.E. Shaw are still looking for up to $ 5 billion ($ 5.6 billion) in damages in civil suits against Porsche SE, which is now only a holding company that owns a majority stake in the VW group.

After PayPal: After earning $ 55 million from his 3.7 per cent stake in the eBay deal, Thiel immediately founded hedge fund Clarium Capital, a global macro hedge fund and made the ludicrously savvy decision to angel invest $ 500,000 in fledgling social network Facebook.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb's firm Third Point wants to build a stake in United Technologies.

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.

COPENHAGEN / LONDON, Dec 13 - Activist hedge fund Primestone Capital on Wednesday urged U.S. cleaning equipment company Tennant and Danish peer Nilfisk to consider merging after building up minority stakes in both firms.

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.

Still, the takeover bid pushed up the value of Ackman's large stake in Allergan, netting Pershing billions of dollars, and the hedge fund manager says the experience helped him realize the value in serial acquirers.

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.

Their move follows an activist campaign by hedge fund Starboard Value LP, which is pushing Yahoo to consider a deal with AOL and unlock Yahoo's valuable stakes in Asian Web companies.

Activist hedge fund group Camber Capital Management has taken a 5.7 % stake in hospital chain Tenet Healthcare, which has been losing money amid declining patient admissions.

Hedge fund Elliott has taken a stake of almost 3 percent in Sky, according to its latest filing, and other shareholders have also argued that Disney's agreement to buy Fox implies a higher value for Sky.

More than 100 hedge funds currently invest in Starbucks (sbux), but their stakes are so small that they add up to less than 3 % of the company.

The Sachem Head hedge fund holds a 3.38 percent stake in Whitbread, according to Thomson Reuters Eikon data.

Elliott Advisors now has over a 6 percent stake in FTSE 100 - listed Whitbread, the hedge fund said in a statement on Saturday.

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.

Activist hedge fund manager Nelson Peltz — who took a large stake in DuPont back in 2013 and fought an unsuccessful proxy battle with the company in 2015 — was also pushing for the company to do a deal.

The hedge fund had boosted its stake in Allergan in the fourth quarter.

In January 2017, HNA Capital, one of the group's subsidiaries, pledged $ 200 million for a majority stake in SkyBridge Capital, the New York hedge fund of Anthony Scaramucci, facilitating Scaramucci's colorful, albeit brief, stint as an official in the Trump White HousIn January 2017, HNA Capital, one of the group's subsidiaries, pledged $ 200 million for a majority stake in SkyBridge Capital, the New York hedge fund of Anthony Scaramucci, facilitating Scaramucci's colorful, albeit brief, stint as an official in the Trump White Housin SkyBridge Capital, the New York hedge fund of Anthony Scaramucci, facilitating Scaramucci's colorful, albeit brief, stint as an official in the Trump White Housin the Trump White House.

Hedge fund Viking Global Investors has acquired a majority stake in beauty startup Birchbox after agreeing to invest around $ 15 million in the business.

Charney also lashed out at Standard General, the hedge fund that loaned him the capital to boost his stake in American Apparel from 27 percent to 43 percent on the promise (Charney claims) that they would help him reclaim a leadership position within the company.

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

Camber Capital Management, a hedge fund with an activist history, has purchased 5.7 million shares of Tenet Healthcare Corp., or a 5.7 % stake in the money - losing hospital chain.The emergence of Camber was disclosed Monday, just three days after Tenet's largest shareholder, Glenview Capital Management, resigned two Tenet board seats, citing irreconcilable differences with management and the board.Glenview Capital, which owns an 18 % stake in Tenet, gave notice Friday that it would no longer participate in a stand - still agreement that had prevented it from launching a proxy fight for control of the company.Tenet investors welcomed the Camber disclosure Monday, driving up Tenet's stock price to $ 2.18, or 15 %, to $ 16.63 as of 12:30 p.m. ET.Tenet is the nation's third - largest investor - owned

Ackman's hedge fund, Pershing Square Capital Management, owns an 18 percent stake in J.C. Penney.

Those included stock in companies like Bank of America and Kraft Heinz, as well as stakes in a variety of private equity and hedge funds.

NEW YORK (AP)-- Hedge fund Third Point LLC said Tuesday that it has acquired a significant stake in Dow Chemical and wants the company to spin off its petrochemicals division.

And a regulatory filing has shown that the hedge fund Point 72 Asset Management has taken a 5 percent stake in video streaming company Roku.

US - based hedge fund Mt Kellett Capital Management is understood to be considering converting its debt into Lynas equity at about 10 cents per share, which would deliver it a substantial stake in the $ 190 million miner.

Paul Singer's hedge fund has put the travel - tech company in play by taking a 12 pct stake, and may even make a bid.

Some big names took stakes in Snap during the first quarter, including billionaire George Soros» hedge fund, activist hedge fund Jana Partners, Daniel Loeb's Third Point and Daniel Och's Och - Ziff Capital Management.

Pershing Square, the hedge fund Ackman runs, disclosed a passive stake in a January regulatory filing.

Activist hedge fund Jana, led by Barry Rosenstein, disclosed a nearly 9 percent stake in Whole Foods in April.

Third Point LLC, another activist hedge fund, disclosed a stake in Macerich in November.

In June, activist hedge fund Third Point unveiled a $ 3.5 billion stake in Nestlé and asked for a series of actions including a formal margin target of 18 to 20 percenIn June, activist hedge fund Third Point unveiled a $ 3.5 billion stake in Nestlé and asked for a series of actions including a formal margin target of 18 to 20 percenin Nestlé and asked for a series of actions including a formal margin target of 18 to 20 percent.

In 2005, his hedge fund owned 5.4 per cent of Wendy's and Ackman was among a group of investors who successfully pushed the company to spin off Tim Hortons despite management's preference to simply sell off a stake in the donut chain along with some of its real estatIn 2005, his hedge fund owned 5.4 per cent of Wendy's and Ackman was among a group of investors who successfully pushed the company to spin off Tim Hortons despite management's preference to simply sell off a stake in the donut chain along with some of its real estatin the donut chain along with some of its real estate.

You're telling all your little hedge - fund buddies 1 about the stake you've built, so they can buy in too:

After working briefly at Warburg Pincus, the private equity firm that owned an equity stake in Mattel, and at Island Records, where he was director of corporate development, he joined Lafer Equity Investors, a New York hedge fund, where he learned the «craft» of risk arbitrage — betting on the outcome of mergers and acquisitions and other «event driven» opportunities.