Hedge Fund Managers

Hedge Fund Managers Tell Congress They See Need For Tighter Restrictions

NY Times | LOUISE STORY | Posted 11.13.2008 | Business


Five prominent hedge fund managers testified Thursday before a House committee that they supported some additional regulation of their industry. The ...

Congress Takes Aim At Griffin's Citadel

Robert Reed | Posted 11.12.2008 | Chicago


Robert Reed

Ken Griffin, Chicago hedge fund magnate and one of the country's wealthiest men, is the anti-Trump. Unlike The Donald, Griffin hates being noticed. All that is about to change Thursday.

Ned Lamont On Wall Street Crisis: "This Is Our Katrina"

Wall Street Journal | Robert Frank | Posted 09.25.2008 | Business


"It's the human toll that is frightening," said State Rep. Livvy Floren, a friend of Mr. Fuld. "Dick Fuld has spent 39 years of his life doing this. I...

California Hedge Fund Quits, Returns Money To Investors

Financial Times | James Mackintosh | Posted 09.22.2008 | Business


The best-performing hedge fund manager of the past two years has closed down his funds and is returning money to investors after concluding that the d...

Everybody's Quitting Hedge Funds These Days

DealBook | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 09.03.2008 | Business


Running a hedge fund has long been considered one of the top jobs in finance, but this summer a growing number of managers have called it quits, unabl...

CNBC's Ronald Insana's Legends Fund A Bumpy Experiment

DealBook | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 08.19.2008 | Business


Do you remember a time, only a short while ago, when virtually anybody could start a hedge fund? It seemed so easy: billions of dollars were being thr...

Maybe Yoga Will Help Soothe Hedge Funders In Bum Economy

Dealbreaker | Posted 07.25.2008 | Business


In an attempt to stop throwing phones and temper tantrums over the lousy markets, a growing number of financiers are taking up yoga to "take a step ba...

Fugitive Fund Chief Sam Israel At Large, Identifiable By Bird Tat, Painkiller Addiction: U.S. Marshals

U.S. Marshals | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business


The United States Marshals Service is seeking information in its investigation to locate and apprehend federal fugitive Samuel Israel III. (For larger...

Fugitive Fund Chief Sam Israel At Large, Identifiable By Bird Tat, Painkiller Addiction: U.S. Marshals

U.S. Marshals | Posted 06.17.2008 | Business


The United States Marshals Service is seeking information in its investigation to locate and apprehend federal fugitive Samuel Israel III. (For larger...

Missing Hedge Fund Scammer's Business Card For Sale On eBay

Stamford Advocate | Jeff Morganteen | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business


View the eBay listing for Samuel Israel III's business card. An eBay seller is looking to cash in on the saga of Samuel Israel, the 48-year-old hedge...

Possible Getaway Driver Questioned In Disappearance Of Con-Artist Fund Manager Samuel Israel III

CNBC.com | Posted 06.13.2008 | Business


U.S. Marshals are questioning a man in connection with the disappearance of convicted hedge fund millionaire Samuel Israel, according to a report from...

Feds: Missing NY swindler armed and dangerous

AP | Posted 06.12.2008 | Business


WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — Federal marshals in New York have issued a "Wanted" poster that says a missing hedge-fund swindler should be considered "ar...

Samuel Israel III, Convicted Hedge Fund Manager, Still Missing

New York Post | Perry Chiaramonte, Kaja Whitehouse and Dan Mangan | Posted 06.11.2008 | Business


June 11, 2008 -- A hedge-fund manager due to begin a 20-year prison stint for a $450 million fraud abandoned his SUV on a Hudson River bridge with "Su...

Warren Buffett Bets $320K That Management Fees Are Crap

NYT | Posted 06.09.2008 | Business


Warren Buffett, a longtime critic of the fees charged by some money managers, has put his own cash on the line -- or, at least, a small chunk of it --...

Hedge-Fund Managers Score Biggest Ever Payday

Posted 04.16.2008 | Business


It's a good day to be a hedge fund manager. Institutional Investor's Alpha magazine has just released it's annual ranking of top hedge funds earners...

A Rebuttal To The IT Department Blocking Bing

Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 04.09.2008 | Business


<i>Fortune</i>'s Stanley Bing

A social network? Us? Could that be? Every day we have as serious a discussion of current business-related events as the facts warrant!

Know Your Hedge-Fundese

New York | Daily Intelligencer | Posted 01.11.2008 | Business


Hedge-fund managers use a lot of lingo. The reason they do this is to trick you into thinking what they do is really complicated, and you are too dumb...

Majority Of Hedge Funders: '08 Recession Is Likely

Reuters | Posted 09.26.2007 | Business


A majority of hedge fund managers say a U.S. recession is "very likely" in 2008, but fewer than one in five said an economic slowdown would be bad for...