Hedge Fund

Wall Street's Arrogance Led To Financial Collapse, Documents Show

Bloomberg View | William D. Cohan | Posted 05.07.2012

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Video, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Great Recession, Mortgage Loans, Bear Stearns, Hedge Fund, Jenner & Block LLP, Lehman-Brothers, Dick Fuld, Citigroup, Business News

Bloomberg View: If one wants to understand the full complicity of Wall Street in the Great Recession, look no further than the voluminous package...

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Book Review: The Little Book of Hedge Funds

Rob Taub | Posted 04.23.2012

Read More: Goldman Sachs, Skybridge Capital, Hedge Funds, Leon Cooperman, Cnbc, Hedge Fund Managers, Fast Money, Hedge Fund, Scaramucci, Books News

Anthony Scaramucci has written The Little Book of Hedge Funds, an entertaining and informative book without the typical Wall Street bombast.

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Dems Target Romney's Tax Loophole

HuffingtonPost.com | Dan Froomkin | Posted 04.09.2012

Read More: Video, Tax Loophole, 2012 Election, Carried Interest, Mitt Romney, Hedge Fund, Carried Interest Loophole, Private Equity, Barack Obama, Politics News

WASHINGTON -- A tax dodge that millionaire hedge fund managers use to slash their income taxes could soon become a major election issue, as congressio...

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At Citi, 'Disappointing And Unacceptable' Revenue May Mean More Layoffs

Reuters | Posted 03.26.2012

Read More: Layoffs, 2008 Financial Crisis, Video, Citigroup Inc, Securities, Revenue, Reuters, Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach, Hedge Fund, Euro Zone Crisis, Business News

Jan 25 (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said it may make further cuts in its securities and banking unit in 2012 if revenue does not pick u...

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The Voices of Occupy's March Against the Millionaires

Daniel Medina | Posted 12.28.2011

Read More: Fifth Avenue, Upper East Side, Chase, Park Avenue, Hedge Fund, Occupy Wall Street, Jamie Dimon, December 7 1941, New York City, Tax Cuts, Gov. Andrew Cuomo, John Paulson, Newscorp, Uptown, Rupert Murdoch, 99%, March, Report, New York News

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Why We Should Learn From History

Saftar Sarwar | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Politics News, Hedge Fund, Finance, Euro, Business News

We have regional economic differences never mind cross-country divergences of economic growth, inflation, unemployment and so forth. Why should the Eurozone be any different?

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World's Richest, Strangest Hedge Fund

New Yorker | John Cassidy | Posted 09.18.2011

Read More: Treasury Department, Commodities, New Yorker, Gdp, Macro Investor, Wall Street, Pure Alpha, Ray Dalio, George W. Bush, Economic Recovery, Hedge Fund, Greg Jensen, Chief Investment Officer, Greek Debt Crisis, European Central Bank, Bridgewater Associates, Business News

Ray Dalio, the sixty-one-year-old founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s biggest hedge fund, is tall and somewhat gaunt, with an expressive,...

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Hedge Funders Create Group To Back Chris Christie's Controversial Ed Reforms

nj.com | Jerry McCrea/the Star | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Chris Christie, Education, Hedge Fund, Education Reform, Facebook, Better Education for Kids, Education News

TRENTON -- A new political action group started by two New Jersey hedge-fund financiers aims to put money -- a lot of money -- behind an education ref...

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Recent Report Claims U.S. Investors 'Grab Land' For Profit In Africa

Posted 08.09.2011

Read More: Food Insecurity, Hedge Fund, Harvard, Solidarity Movement for New Ethiopia, Land Grab, Oakland Institute, Africa, Impact News

A recent report claims wealthy U.S. and European investors are buying up large amounts of territory in Africa, without proper contracts, and in ways t...

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College Dropouts Wanted: Peter Thiel Awards $100,000 Fellowships To Entrepreneurs Under 20

HuffingtonPost.com | Amanda M. Fairbanks | Posted 07.25.2011

Read More: Peter Thiel, Paypal, Thiel Fellows, College, 000, Hedge Fund, $100, College Dropouts, Good News, Facebook, Fellowship, Thiel Foundation, College News

Midway through his freshman year at Harvard University, Ben Yu felt like Harvard's core curriculum kept getting in the way of his other interests. So ...

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Senator Investigates Suspicious Trading By Hedge Fund SAC Capital

AP | By PAUL WISEMAN | Posted 07.22.2011

Read More: Raj Rajaratnam, Donald Longueuil, Senator Owa, Charles Grassley, Stamford, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Suspicious Trading, Hedge Fund, SAC Capital, Steven Cohen, Business News

-- Republican Sen. Charles Grassley is investigating about 20 instances of suspicious trading by the hedge fund SAC Capital, a spokesman for the sena...

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Jim Cramer: The Old Me Would Have Hit Jon Stewart With A Chair

Posted 07.13.2011

Read More: Video, Chair, Jon Stewart, New York Times, Hedge Fund, Mad Money, New York Stock Exchange, Nyt, Jim Cramer, Business News

Jim Cramer, the host of CNBC's Mad Money and a former hedge fund manager, is never one for biting his tongue. But in a profile in New York Times m...

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WATCH: Rajaratnam's Lawyer Flips Off CNBC

Posted 07.12.2011

Read More: Raj Flipped Off, Insider Trading, Raj Rajaratnam, Fraud and Conspiracy, John Dowd Middle Finger, Hedge Fund, Galleon Group, Raj Lawyer, Raj Law Middle Finger, Raj Flipped the Bird, Rajaratnam Lawyer, Video, Business News

That turned ugly fast. On Wednesday, Galleon Group hedge fund manager Raj Rajaratnam was found guilty on all 14 counts of securities fraud and cons...

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Star Fund Manager Called Rival 'Hitler Himself' show

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hedge Fund, Dan Loeb, Fairfax Financial, Third Point, Daniel Loeb Emails, Daniel Loeb, Business News

NEW YORK (By Matthew Goldstein) - It was the summer of 2006 and hedge fund manager Daniel Loeb was having difficulty containing his very harsh fee...

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Hedge Fund Manager Pleads Guilty To Ponzi Scheme

Reuters | Jonathan Stempel | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Francisco Illarramendi, Juan Carlos Horna Napolitano, Connecticut, Ponzi Scheme, Hedge Fund, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Juan Carlos Guillen Zerp, Business News

(Reuters) - A Connecticut hedge fund manager pleaded guilty on Monday to running a multiyear Ponzi scheme that may have defrauded investors out of...

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SEC Investigating Deal Between JPMorgan And Hedge Fund Magnetar

Pro Publica | Jesse Eisinger and Jake Bernstein | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Business News, Investment Banks, Hedge Fund, Sec, Magnetar Capital, Sec Investigation, Economy, Stock Market, Jpmorgan, Investors, Business News

The Securities and Exchange Commission is investigating whether JPMorgan Chase allowed a hedge fund to improperly select assets for a $1.1 billion dea...

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Republican Pledge: A Rotten Egg for the Middle Class

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Social Security, Bp, Mortgage Underwater, Hedge Fund, Salmonella, Chicken in Every Pot, Congressional Budget Office, GOP Joint Committee on Taxation, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, Unemployment, Wall Street, Great Recession, Pledge to America, Health Care Reform, Foreclosure, Medicare, Recovery Act, Republicans, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Poverty Rate, Health Insurance Reform, Great Depression, Herbert Hoover, Jack and Peter DeCoster, Politics News

In 1928, the Republicans promised Hoover's victory would assure the prosperity of "a chicken in every pot." This week, the GOP proffered a similar pledge to America: instead of a "chicken in every pot" they're pledging a salmonella-poisoned egg.

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Hedge Funds Pushing Out Human Traders, Using More Algorithms

Bloomberg | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hedge Fund, Hedge Fund Algorithm, Computer Traders, Trade Algorithm, Tabb Group, Computer Trades, Human Traders, Algorithm, Business News

Asset managers such as hedge funds will probably increase their use of computer programs known as algorithms to execute their stock trades in 2011, ac...

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Goldman Sachs Settlement: A Reader's Outrage

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

Seems almost everyone I talk to these days is very outraged over the corruption in the financial system.

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I'll Just Stick to the Math!

Iris Mack | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Financial Crisis, Math, Wall Street, Enron, Investment Bank, Derivatives, Quant, Financial Engineer, Harvard Management Company, Al Gore, President Bush, Phat Math Inc., Hedge Fund, Business News

I decided I needed to do something instead of just sitting around complaining about how we were getting ripped off by Wall Street, so I threw my two cents into the debate about the economy by writing my first Huffington Post blog.

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No More Deceit -- Strictly Regulate Wall Street

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Citigroup, Richard S. Juld Jr., President Obama, Washington Mutual, Financial Reform, Hedge Fund, Barack Obama, Katrina Vanden Heuvel, Financial Regulation, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, Ezra Klein, Robert Khuzami, Morgan Stanley, John Paulson, Wall Street, Lehman Brothers, Sen. Mitch McConnell, Sen. Chris Dodd, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bank Bailout, Subprime Mortgage, Glass-Steagall, Repo 105, Too Big to Fail, Jpmorgan, Senate Minority Leader, Wa-Mu, Business News

If McConnell-style deceit about the financial reform bill continues in the Senate, serious regulatory reform won't happen. Half measures won't work. Only robust financial reform will end Wall Street's freedom to deceive.

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Carried Interest Tax: 'On the Table' in Senate

Reuters | Kim Dixon | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hedge Fund, House of Representatives, Carried-Interest-Bill, Senate Finance Committee, Tax, Carried Interest Tax, Private Equity, Senate, Charles Schumer, Business News

U.S. lawmakers desperate for revenue are looking anew at changing the tax treatment of profits earned by hedge fund and private equity managers, congr...

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The F Word: Shaky Foundations for the Economy

Laura Flanders | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Steelworkers, F Word, California, Banks, Economy, Workers, Jobs, Earthquake, Obama, Hedge Fund, Bankers, Grit Tv, Geithner, Haiti, Carl Icahn, The F Word, Labor, Laura Flanders, Grittv, San Diego, Union, Pittsburgh, Business News

In 2009, a year of decline for most of us, the top 25 hedge fund managers made an average of $1 billion each. There was, said investor Carl Icahn "a great opportunity in debt" last year.

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Hedge Fund Managers' Pay Roared Back Last Year

New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hedge Fund, David Tepper, Executive Compensation, George Soros, Compensation, Hedge Fund Manager Pay, Business News

The Lazarus-like recovery of the nation's big banks did not benefit just the bankers -- it also created huge paydays for hedge fund managers, includin...

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Arthur Samberg Pays $28M For Microsoft Insider Trading

AP | MARCY GORDON | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Pequot Capital Management, Insider Trading, Microsoft, Microsoft Earnings, Sec, Hedge Fund, Securities and Exchange Commission, Tipsters, Arthur Samberg, Business News

WASHINGTON — An investment firm and its founder and chairman, Arthur Samberg, have agreed to pay a total of $28 million to settle regulators' ch...

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