Hedge Fund Traders

Hedge Funds Face 'Make Or Break' Year

Reuters | Posted 04.18.2012

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By Laurence Fletcher LONDON, April 18 (Reuters) - Large institutional investors who have ploughed tens of billions of dollars into hed...

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Goldman Raises Hundreds Of Millions To Invest In Start Up Hedge Funds: Report

Posted 11.30.2011

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Goldman Sachs (GS.N) has raised $600 million from clients such as pension funds, wealthy families and large institutions for a new fund that would...

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Former Hedge Fund Trader, Sentenced To 11 Yeas For Insider Trading

Posted 12.13.2011

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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Raj Rajaratnam, a self-made hedge fund tycoon convicted in the biggest Wall Street trading scandal in a generation, was order...

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Hedge Fund Trader Gets Three Years In Prison For Bribes

AP | By LARRY NEUMEISTER | Posted 12.07.2011

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NEW YORK -- A hedge fund trader who paid hefty bribes to coax confidential information out of shady lawyers was sentenced Friday to three years in pri...

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Moral Blindness on Wall Street

Hoyt Hilsman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Hoyt Hilsman

One of the most shocking elements of the testimony by Goldman Sachs executives this week was the moral blindness they showed when evaluating the role of their firm in the economic collapse.

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Costco and the Great Federal Bailout

Howard Gewirtz | Posted 05.25.2011

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Howard Gewirtz

If you've paid your taxes, you are now the proud owner of unregulated hedge funds, mortgaged-backed junk bonds, etc. In other words, crap.

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Rating The Top 30 Hedge Fund Traders Under 30

Telegraph | Helen Power | Posted 05.25.2011

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They are the masters of the universe in training. Hedge fund bible Trader Monthly will today publish its list of 30 of the world's top traders under ...

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Suicide?: Disgraced Hedge Fund Trader Samuel Israel III Missing

AP | JIM FITZGERALD | Posted 05.25.2011

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WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — A car abandoned on a bridge with the phrase "Suicide is Painless" scrawled in the dust on its hood is registered to a hedge...

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Why is Bear Stearns Trading Above Deal Price?

David Neubert | Posted 05.25.2011

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I've been getting the inside scoop from some hedgefund traders (who always request to remain anonymous).

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Hedgies' Year-End Bonuses To Be "Substantially Lower" Than Expected

Globe And Mail | ROMA LUCIW | Posted 05.25.2011

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The turbulence arising from this summer's global credit crunch is likely going to mean smaller bonus increases for U.S. hedge-fund traders. Cash bonu...

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