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Leaked audio from the Bank of England gave hedge funds an 8-second head start...
The Bank of England says it is investigating how hedge funds were able to pay thousands of pounds to listen to broadcasts of its briefings before they were made public.The misused audio of briefings...
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The hedge fund landscape shrinks for a 5th straight year as investors rebel...
The hedge fund industry saw more closures than openings for the fifth year in a row in 2019, Bloomberg reported Monday, citing data from Hedge Fund Research Inc.Investors are quickly fleeing the...
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Hedge funds are making most of their money by crowding into no-brainer wins...
There are fewer public companies to invest in, and hedge funds have been desperate to match the surging markets, forcing many managers into the same trades and stocks. In the 2010s, the stock that...
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In 2019, activists and stock pickers were hot — but Ray Dalio made a rare...
The hedge funds that dominated 2019 included big names like Bill Ackman, David Einhorn, and Dan Loeb.Spin-offs from funds like Citadel, D.E. Shaw, and Viking also made positive headlines, carving out...
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$50 billion D.E. Shaw's flagship fund posted a 10.5% return in 2019, besting...
$50 billion manager D.E. Shaw posted returns of 10.5% for its flagship Composite fund in 2019, according to a source familiar with the matter.The firm's 16-year-old, macro-focused Oculus fund returned...
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Billionaire Larry Robbins' Glenview Capital crushes 2019 with eye-popping...
Billionaire Larry Robbins' Glenview Capital had a banner year, posting returns of nearly 30% in its flagship fund when the average hedge fund returned just over 8%, according to Hedge Fund...
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Famed short-seller Andrew Left's hedge fund saw 43% returns in its 1st year
Citron Capital, the new hedge fund led by famed short-seller Andrew Left, gained 43% net of fees in 2019, Reuters reported Monday, citing a letter to investors. The fund includes both long and short...
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Here are the 8 biggest holdings in Bill Ackman's flagship hedge fund, which...
Billionaire Bill Ackman's hedge fund returned 58% in 2019.The 2019 performance was a fantastic rebound for the fund, which posted negative net returns each year from 2015 to 2018. Here are the top...
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BlackRock's flagship hedge fund Obsidian returns more than 13% in 2019 after...
BlackRock's 23-year-old Obsidian hedge fund bested the average hedge fund, returning more than 13% in 2019 even after losing money in August. The fund, managed by Stuart Spodek, is fixed-income...
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PE shop Vista Equity Partners paid $100 million for 7Park to get in on the...
Vista Equity Partners paid nearly $100 million to buy alternative data company 7Park Data at the end of 2018. Since the acquisition, the firm has added to the sales team as it attempts to pivot away...
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Billionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin trounced rival Steve Cohen in 2019...
Ken Griffin's Citadel posted a 19.4% return in 2019, beating out industry rival Steve Cohen's Point72 fund and its 16% gain, Bloomberg reported.Both offices, and the greater hedge fund industry, still...
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This hedge fund trounced the market in 2019 while most others fell way short....
Lansdowne Partners operates one of the largest hedge funds for clean energy. It held $221 million in assets at the end of last year, according to an HSBC report. In 2018, the fund saw negative returns...
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Jeff Talpins' $18 billion Element Capital announced it would raise fees in...
Macro manager Element Capital finished 2019 up 12%, a source familiar with the firm told Business Insider. Jeff Talpins' firm manages $18 billion and is raising performance fees to 40% this year,...
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Joseph Edelman's $4.8 billion hedge fund dominated 2019 with 53.7% returns...
Joseph Edelman's $4.8 billion Life Sciences fund, the flagship fund for the $6 billion Perceptive Advisors, returned 53.7% last year.The firm's biggest fund lost more than 9% in August, but still...
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The world's top 20 hedge fund managers posted their biggest gains of the...
The 20 best-performing hedge fund managers of all time gained $59.3 billion in 2019 to post their best annual return in at least a decade, according to a report released Monday by LCH Investments.TCI...
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The head of professional development at Steve Cohen's Point72 explains how to...
Steve Cohen's Point72 Asset Management has put an emphasis on career development, according to Jaimi Goodfriend, the firm's head of investment professional development. New recruits, often straight out...
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Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn is adding to his bet against Netflix and...
David Einhorn's Greenlight Capital is short one of hedge funds' favorite stocks, streaming giant Netflix, because of increased competition from other streaming services and the loss of two series the...
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Bloomberg's alt-data head is starting up a new business at retail consultant...
Ascential Alternative Data Division was started by Jeremy Baksht, who used to be Bloomberg's global head of alternative data. The London-based company helps consumer companies, like clothing lines,...
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The alt-data industry faced serious growing pains after its sudden glow up —...
Alternative data quickly went from a quirky subset used by only the most sophisticated hedge funds to a multi-billion-dollar behemoth that has investors and companies like Vista Equity Partners,...
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Investors pulled $98 billion from hedge funds last year, the largest outflow...
Hedge-fund net outflows in 2019 were nearly $98 billion, a Thursday report from eVestment said.It was the worst year for hedge-fund redemptions since 2016, according to the report.Hedge funds returned...
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