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Billionaire hedge-fund founder Leon Cooperman just called private equity a...
Omega Advisors founder Leon Cooperman told attendees at an Alternative Investment Roundtable event in New York that now was not the time to invest in private equity.Cooperman, who is transitioning his...
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Billionaire Leon Cooperman says the rise of passive investing 'scares the...
Prominent investors like Michael Burry have been voicing concerns about passively managed index funds. Burry recently warned passive investing has become a bubble. The billionaire hedge-fund founder...
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Izzy Englander just added a quant team that was managing hundreds of millions...
Millennium has added a Paris-based quant team led by former Societe General prop desk head Maxime Kahn. Kahn and his team were previously running $300 million of BlueCrest Capital founder Michael...
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Top Wall Street investors say they're struggling to find big, bullish...
Institutional investors are cautious about risks to the global economy and are simultaneously reluctant to make any major contrarian bets in the stock market.Their uncertainty stems largely from the...
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Hedge funds are getting whacked in an 'unheard of' stock market shift — and a...
A massive shift in the stock market from top-performing growth stocks to lower performing names triggered a sharp shift in "momentum," and is crushing hedge funds this week. "This has been a brutal...
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There's been an 'unheard of' stock market shift this week and it's crushing...
You might have missed it, but there's been some remarkable shifts in the stock market over the past few days.In particular, there's been a shift from momentum stocks, or those that have had the wind...
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Hedge funds are cozying up to Uber but snubbing Lyft (UBER, LYFT)
Big name hedge funds have revealed their holdings of Uber for the first time since the companies massive IPO. Lyft, meanwhile, saw many managers trim their stakes in the second quarter, filings show....
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Meet the 8 people with new ideas about data, fees, and tech who are shaking...
The hedge fund game is dominated by big players, and it can be tough for true innovators to carve out a niche. Here are eight people making their mark with new twists on fees, data, ESG investing, and...
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Hedge funds are getting whacked in an 'unheard of' stock-market shift — and a...
A massive shift in the stock market from top-performing growth stocks to lower-performing names triggered a sharp shift in "momentum" and has crushed hedge funds this week. "This has been a brutal...
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There's been an 'unheard of' stock market shift this week and it's crushing...
You might have missed it, but there's been some remarkable shifts in the stock market over the past few days.In particular, there's been a shift from momentum stocks, or those that have had the wind...
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Longtime alternative data player Thasos just laid off the majority of its...
The CEO of Thasos, an alternative data company, has stepped down and roughly two-thirds of its staff have been laid off, sources tell Business Insider. Thasos was struggling to sell its product,...
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Goldman Sachs just completely overhauled how it makes stock forecasts — and...
Goldman Sachs said it has remade its sentiment indicator, and the new data shows stocks are at risk for a near-term decline as hedge funds and foreign investors have ramped up their exposure.Arjun...
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Investors want hedge funds to 'stick to their guns' and not try to 'be...
Last week's momentum slide and a surge in oil prices earlier this week thrashed many hedge funds.Investors like Jon Aikman, who sits on the University of Toronto's endowment and pension-investment...
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Goldman Sachs' massive quant business now rivals AQR and Two Sigma. We talked...
Goldman Sachs' Quantitative Investing Strategies group is one of the Wall Street bank's biggest and fast-growing units. The unit, known as QIS, has nearly doubled its assets under management in 2 1/2...
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Nasdaq-owned alt-data seller Quandl just hired BlueMountain's former data...
Quandl, the Nasdaq-owned marketplace for alternative data tracking things like web scrapings and satellite images, is bringing in Evan Reich as its new head of data strategy and sourcing.Reich...
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A performance coach for Tiger Woods and billionaire Steve Cohen told a room...
At a CFA Society event on Thursday night, Dr. Gio Valiante and Denise Schull told investors and traders that many people haven't trained themselves to correctly learn from mistakes. Mistakes can't be...
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Hedge funds could reap as much as $250 million from the collapse of British...
While the bankruptcy of British tour operator Thomas Cook has left hundreds of thousands of travelers stranded, a group of hedge funds are poised to make as much as $250 million from the company's...
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A top hedge fund's reported $800 million bet on vaping could be in jeopardy...
Jason Mudrick, the founder and chief investment officer of Mudrick Capital Management, has placed a massive bet on the vaping and e-cigarette space. The high-profile investor's flagship fund has...
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Wall Street's Democratic donors reportedly warned that they'd back Trump over...
Wall Street's Democratic donors are warning that they won't back Sen. Elizabeth Warren if she wins the party's nomination and that they might even support President Donald Trump, according to...
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A hedge fund manager who oversees $2 billion lays out the road to...
Uber and Lyft have created a duopoly in the US ridesharing market that puts them on the road to profitability, according to Glen Kacher, the chief investment officer and founder of $2 billion Light...
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