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D1 founder Dan Sundheim, whose hedge fund was rocked by the WallStreetBets...
Summary List PlacementDan Sundheim is taking Gabe Plotkin's advice.Sundheim, the billionaire founder of D1 Capital, which manages $20 billion, said at the Sohn Investment Conference Wednesday that his...
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Inside the crazy world of whistleblower lawsuits, where anonymous tipsters...
Summary List PlacementEditor's note: This story was originally published on March 29, 2021 and later updated to include news about the CFTC's whistleblower program.When Swedish billionaire Thomas...
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The headhunters leading Wall Street's systematic-trading and data-science...
Summary List PlacementThe market for quant and data-science specialists has perhaps never been hotter. And the technologists, researchers, scientists, and traders developing cutting-edge investment...
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Here are 9 startups in $65 billion hedge fund Tiger Global's portfolio that...
Summary List Placement$65 billion hedge fund Tiger Global has been on a startup investing spree this year, averaging more than one venture-style investment per business day in 2021, Insider reported....
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Lone Pine's Mala Gaonkar, a longtime lieutenant to billionaire Stephen Mandel...
Summary List PlacementAn upside-down investing landscape requires an outside-the-box thinker.For decades, asset managers have been able to stick to somewhat static definitions of what value and growth...
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$7.8 billion Schonfeld has hired former Citadel and Balyasny macro head Colin...
Summary List PlacementColin Lancaster is adding another big name to his resume.The former head of macro strategies at Citadel and Balyasny is starting a new macro investing division at Schonfeld...
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman hopes to close his mega SPAC deal in a...
Summary List PlacementBill Ackman hopes to close his huge SPAC deal in the next couple of weeks.The Pershing Square chief is hedging against inflation and a market correction.Ackman switched Starbucks...
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The bankers, brokers, and big money transforming litigation finance from a...
Summary List PlacementPaying for someone else's lawsuit used to be illegal. Now it's a multibillion-dollar opportunity.Commercial litigation funders make money by advancing money to businesses that...
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The hedge fund investor who lost a $1 million bet with Warren Buffett doubts...
Summary List PlacementTed Seides made a $1 million, decade-long bet with Warren Buffett that he lost in 2017.The investor wagered that hedge funds would outperform a S&P 500 index fund.Seides...
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Meet the power players of the booming litigation finance industry
Summary List PlacementPaying for someone else's lawsuit used to be illegal. Now it's a multibillion-dollar opportunity.Today, litigation funders have $11.3 billion invested or ready to invest in US...
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Here are 4 York Capital alums starting their own funds after billionaire...
Summary List PlacementBillionaire Jamie Dinan decided he was done with the hedge fund game after decades in the business, announcing at the end of last year that his York Capital was going to wind down...
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Hedge funds' biggest names — from Dalio to Cohen to Englander — are embracing...
Summary List PlacementThe hedge-fund world didn't come running to cryptocurrencies.While some smaller funds embraced bitcoin and other digital currencies early on, the biggest names in the industry...
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A hedge fund founder who quit his job to start a healthy food company shares...
Summary List PlacementFor Jason Karp, working in finance was rewarding. He made millions, won awards, and started a business that employed dozens of people.But in 2018, after a couple of tough years at...
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A rising star in the hedge fund world left it all behind to start his own...
Summary List PlacementOn a spring day in 2018, Jason Karp paid a visit to Kern Valley State Prison, a maximum-security facility in California's Central Valley. Karp was the founder of Tourbillon...
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$58 billion Two Sigma just poached a top engineer from Google to be its new...
Summary List PlacementTwo Sigma has a new hire to help wrangle its reams of data.Carter Clark Page joined the $58 billion hedge fund at the start of June as the firm's new head of data engineering...
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Billionaire investor Bill Ackman might land his $4 billion Universal Music...
Summary List PlacementBill Ackman's special-purpose acquisition company (SPAC) is close to buying 10% of Universal Music Group for $4 billion. The billionaire investor might have his grandfather's...
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Wall Street brokers are reportedly limiting short bets against meme stocks by...
Summary List PlacementSome of Wall Street's largest brokers are quietly tightening rules on who can bet against meme stocks popular among retail traders in an effort to protect themselves against the...
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The former head of data at Neuberger Berman and Point72 has launched a firm...
Summary List PlacementThe biggest hurdle for both sides of the data equation is cost.It's expensive for asset managers to build out data science teams and suss out the most relevant bits of info from...
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Welcome to Wall Street's 'Summer of Anxiety'
Summary List PlacementAs summer comes to the United States, the coronavirus is receding, businesses are reopening, and people are going back to work. There are memes everywhere trying to encapsulate...
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Hedge funds piled into the first-ever junk bond tied to bitcoin to avoid...
Summary List PlacementCryptocurrencies are creeping into the traditional financial markets where hard, reserve currencies still rule the roost.MicroStrategy raised the first-ever junk bond that will be...
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