Category Archives: Syndicated
Hedge Fund Giants Mario Gabelli, Stephen Mandel & Andreas Halvorsen Are Getting Active
(Benzinga) Many investors consider tracking hedge fund moves central to their strategy. Let’s take a look at the past week’s most relevant hedge fund moves. GAMCO Investors Mario Gabelli’s GAMCO Investors was quite active this week.On Tuesday, the fund disclosed […]
IMF Says Greece Needs Even Deeper Debt Relief From Europe
IMF Says Greece Needs Even Deeper Debt Relief From Europe Bloomberg posted on Wed 15 Jul 2015 Permalink Greece needs debt relief “far beyond” what European creditors have been willing to consider, including possibly deep “haircuts” on the value of […]
Hedge Fund Firm Visium Said To Raise First Private Equity Pool
Hedge Fund Firm Visium Said to Raise First Private Equity Pool Bloomberg posted on Thu 16 Jul 2015 Permalink Visium Asset Management, the multistrategy hedge-fund manager with about $7 billion in assets, is seeking to raise $500 million for its […]
Singer and Ackman Are Concerned About China–Goldman Isn’t
(Bloomberg) Hedge fund managers including Paul Singer and Bill Ackman who’ve been concerned about the slump in China’s stock markets may feel better if they listened to the country’s best economists. Singer, whose hedge fund Elliott Management has been locked […]
Up 428%, This Hedge Fund Now Likes Energy and Cayman Beaches
(Bloomberg) Ryan Melkonian says the strategy he developed for LTE Partners was shaped by a couple of experiences earlier in his career. First, from his perch at a New York family office in the 1990s, he saw how different asset […]
Billionaire Hedge Fund Manager: McDonald’s Culture Has To Be Turned Upside Down
(Business Insider) Activist titans Nelson Peltz of Trian Fund Management and Bill Ackman of Pershing Square weighed in on how to fix McDonald’s.The largest global fast-food chain has struggled in recent years, especially in the US. At the CNBC/Institutional Investor […]
The Most Interesting Investment in Bill Ackman’s Portfolio That No One’s Noticed
(Business Insider) Activist investor Bill Ackman, the CEO of $18 billion Pershing Square Capital Management, said the most interesting investment in his portfolio right now are mortgage originators Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The 49-year-old activist investor was on a […]
Greek Bailout Rests On Asset Sale Plan That’s Already Failed
(Bloomberg) Greece’s last-ditch bailout requires the country to sell 50 billion euros ($55 billion) of assets, an ambition it hasn’t come close to achieving under previous restructuring plans. The government of then-Prime Minister George Papandreou in 2011 set the same […]
Hedge Funds Cut Bullish Exposure To US Oil By Most Since 2012
(Reuters) Hedge funds and other speculators have made their sharpest cut in more than two and a half years to their bullish exposure toward U.S. crude oil, trade data showed Friday, a further sign that investor confidence in the oil […]
Paulson Said To Build Stake In Syngenta To Support Monsanto
(Bloomberg) Paulson & Co. has amassed a large number of shares in the Swiss pesticide company that’s trying to fend off a $45 billion takeover offer from U.S. rival Monsanto Co. and is supportive of a deal between the two, […]
Greenlight’s Einhorn Says Micron Will Be Worth More Than Netflix
(REUTERS) Billionaire hedge fund manager David Einhorn said in an investor letter on Monday that chipmaker Micron Technology Inc (MU.O) would be worth more than Netflix Inc (NFLX.O) within the next few years. Einhorn, whose $12 billion Greenlight Capital funds […]
Hillary Clinton Calls For Capital Gains Tax To Reward “Long-Term Investments.”
(Investment News) Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton wants to put teeth into enforcement of securities laws, as Republican field grows by one with Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker joining the race Clinton called for the financial industry to “rein in excessive risks” […]