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Why Activist Investors Are Turned Off By Facebook

Reuters | Paritosh Bansal | Posted 02.09.2012 | Business

Read More: U.S. Public Markets, Video, Jive Software Inc, Hedge Funds, Angie's List Inc, Reuters, Ipo, Groupon Inc, Zillow Inc, Pandora Media Inc, Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook, FriendFinder Networks Inc, LinkedIn Corp, S&P 500, Zynga Inc, Business News

By Paritosh Bansal NEW YORK (Reuters) - A new crop of companies entering the U.S. public markets, including such high-profile offerings...

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A Glaring Omission in the Senate's Insider Trading Bill: Fair Disclosure

Dana Radcliffe | Posted 02.06.2012 | Politics

Read More: Dodd-Frank Act, Investors, Insider Trading, Raj Rajaratnam, Reg FD, Congress, Hedge Funds, Fiduciary Duty, Senate, STOCK Act, FInancial Markets, Politics News

Why should members of Congress and other federal insiders be excepted from the same demand for fair disclosure the government has imposed on corporate officials?

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Disgraced Ex-Goldman Director Defended At Friendsofrajat.com

The Huffington Post | Jillian Berman | Posted 02.02.2012 | Business

Read More: Rajat Gupta Friends, Insider Trading, Video, Rajat Gupta, Raj Rajaratnam, Hedge Funds, Rajat Gupta Goldman Sachs, Business News, Rajat-Gupta-Insider-Trading, Raj Rajaratnam Insider Trading, Business News

Rajat Gupta went from a guest at President Obama's first state dinner and well-respected titan of finance to a disgraced figure facing criminal inside...

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Tweet and Be Damned

John Bates | Posted 01.31.2012 | Business

Read More: Berkshire Hathaway, Social Networking, Hedge Funds, Twitter, Twitter Sentiment, McDonald's, Facebook, Algorithmic Trading, Market Sentiment, Twitter Investment, Twitter Trading, Twitter Market, Twitter Stocks, Twitter Investing, Business News

Are emotionally laden Twitter messages able to provide reliable bellwethers for market sentiment?

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Mark Cuban's Idea Goes Bust

Posted 01.30.2012 | Business

Read More: Video, Hedge Funds, Business News, Financial Crisis, Centaur Galileo Hedge Fund, Hedge-Funds-Collapse, Sports Betting Hedge Funds, Centaur Galileo, Sports Betting, Business News

Mark Cuban is an undeniable idea machine. But one of his boldest ideas yet may have proven too hot to handle. Centaur, a London-based investment c...

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Politicians Seeking Upper Hand Over Hedge Funds in Greek Bailout

David Paul | Posted 01.22.2012 | Business

Read More: Eurozone, Hedge Funds, European Central Bank, Greece Debt Crisis, Greece Debt Bailout, Greece, Greece Bailout, Business News

There are many participants involved, and each has their own set of metrics for a successful outcome of the Greece workout.

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New York Startups Drive Manhattan Office Surge: Report

Reuters | Posted 01.18.2012 | Small Business

Read More: Startup Real Estate, Tech Startup, Small Business, Wall Street, Startup, Hedge Funds, Finance, New York Startups, Small Business Real Estate, Small Business News and Trends, Banks, Startup Office Space, Real Estate, Financial Institutions, New York, Small Business News

(Reuters) - Manhattan, arguably the financial capital of the world, has media and technology companies to thank rather than banks for its improving of...

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What CEOs and Hedge Funds Don't Want the 99% to Understand

Roger Martin | Posted 01.14.2012 | Business

Read More: Stock Market Crash 2008, 1 Percent, 99 Percent, Volatility, Stock-Based Compensation, CEO Salaries, Hedge Funds, Stock Market, Ceos, Ows, Occupy Wall Street, CEO Compensation, Executive Compensation, Business News

Stock-based compensation has produced a volatility machine and that volatility is wrecking the American economy, while it makes CEOs and hedge fund managers rich.

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The Possible Winners Of A Plan To Slash Greece's Debt

Reuters | Posted 01.13.2012 | Business

Read More: European Debt Crisis, Greek Debt, Video, Hedge Funds Greek Debt, Europe Crisis, Hedge Funds, Eurozone Crisis, Reuters, Business News, Greek Debt Crisis, Business News

* Funds positioned for talks to succeed or fail * Part bank-owned funds among the players * Size of fund...

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After Rejecting Two Previous Plans, Judge Sends WaMu Reorganization To Creditor Vote

AP | RANDALL CHASE | Posted 01.12.2012 | Business

Read More: Wmi, JPMorgan Chase, Washington Mutual Inc., Bankruptcy, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp., Wamu, Hedge Funds, Judge Mary Walrath, Business News

WILMINGTON, Del. -- The stage is set for creditors to vote on bank holding company Washington Mutual Inc.'s latest reorganization plan and for a heari...

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Is White House Chief Jack Lew's Banking Background Bad News For Financial Reform?

HuffingtonPost.com | Ben Hallman | Posted 01.11.2012 | Business

Read More: White House, Proprietary Trading, Dodd-Frank, Hedge Funds, Financial Reform, Top Aide, Bill Daley, Chief of Staff, Jacob Lew, Obama, Jack Lew, Volcker Rule, Private Equity, Citigroup, Business News

As President Barack Obama's new White House chief of staff, ex-banker Jacob Lew assumes a powerful position at the height of a Washington battle over ...

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SEC Ramping Up Efforts To Stop Hedge Fund Fraud

The Huffington Post | Alexander Eichler | Posted 12.28.2011 | Business

Read More: Financial Fraud, Video, Insider Trading, Freddie Mac, Hedge Fund Fraud, Hedge Funds, Allen Stanford, Lehman Brothers, Fannie Mae, Financial Crisis, Ponzi Scheme, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, Bernie Madoff, Bernie Madoff Ponzi Scheme, Business News

Memo to hedge fund managers: It's a bad time to try to overachieve. The Securities and Exchange Commission is cracking down on hedge fund fraud, and t...

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Shadow Banks Go Long Energy Projects

Peter Gardett | Posted 12.23.2011 | Business

Read More: Energy, Infrastructure, Hedge Funds, Lending, Finance, Financial Crisis, Banks, Shadow Banking, Private Equity, Business News

Hundreds of millions of dollars have been committed to solar and wind projects in recent weeks, and while the end of the year often brings with it a s...

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Ex-Fannie Mae CEO Takes Leave Of Absence, Amid SEC Charges

Posted 12.21.2011 | Business

Read More: Video, Freddie Mac, Subprime Mortgages, Hedge Funds, Fannie Mae, Fortress Investment Group, Sec, Securities and Exchange Commission, University of Delaware's Center for Corporate Governance, Macquarie, Business News

Daniel Mudd, the embattled former chief executive of mortgage financing company Fannie Mae, is taking a leave of absence from his current job as h...

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Hedge-Fund Titans Got Inside Political Tips

New York | Jonathan Chait | Posted 12.22.2011 | Politics

Read More: Eric Potoker, Insider Trading, Hedge Funds, Viking Global, Scott Zinober, Health Care Reform, Harry Reid, Joe Lieberman, Karsch Capital, Barack Obama, Tom Carper, Inside DC, Politics News

I'm surprised this Wall Street Journal story, detailing how hedge funds manage to obtain profitable inside information, hasn’t gotten more attention...

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Inside Capitol, Investor Access Yields Rich Tips

online.wsj.com | Posted 12.20.2011 | Fifty

Read More: Politics, Investing, Capitol Hill, Hedge Funds, Money, Tips, Insider Information, Health Care, Investors, Fifty News

When Senate Democrats finally brokered a compromise over the proposed health-care law, a group of hedge funds were let in on the deal, learning detail...

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George Soros' Investment Company Cutting Jobs

Posted 12.16.2011 | Business

Read More: Layoffs, Interest Rates, Video, Odyssey Search Partners, Commodities, George Soros, Job Cuts, Diamondback Capital, Hedge Funds, Soros Fund Management, Currencies, Business News

Soros Fund Management, the investment company of billionaire George Soros, has laid off a handful of analysts and portfolio managers in recent mon...

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Investors Falling Out Of Love With Hedge Funds

Posted 12.16.2011 | Business

Read More: Hsbc, European Debt Crisis, Renaissance Institutional, Video, Hedge Funds, Euro Zone, Man Group, Paulson Advantage Plus, Investors, Polar Capital, Business News

(Laurence Fletcher and Sinead Cruise) - Deep cracks are starting to show in the love affair between hedge funds and their investors, after another...

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Is Crony Capitalism Wrong?

Janet Tavakoli | Posted 02.02.2012 | Business

Read More: Freddie Mac, President's Working Group on the Capital Markets, Henry Paulson, Fannie Mae, Crony Capitalism, Richard Teitelbaum, Eric Mindich, Congressman Michael Quigley, Goldman Sachs, Hedge Funds, Business News

What do we stand for and how much of this can we stand? What are we willing to tolerate or not tolerate from our public servants? Where did we go so wrong that congressional staffers imply that crony capitalism is business as usual?

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

Posted 11.30.2011 | Business

Read More: Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, Video, Hedge Fund Traders, Hedge Funds, Hedge Fund Managers, Start-Ups, Business News, Goldman Sachs Investments, Goldman, Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund, Business News

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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Conn. Money Managers Keeping Quiet About Huge Lottery Win

AP | JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN | Posted 01.29.2012 | Business

Read More: Lottery, Video, Connecticut Lottery, Hedge Funds, Lottery Jackpot, Hedge Fund Managers, Business News, Connecticut Money Managers Win Lottery, $254 Million Jackpot, Lottery Winners, Business News

NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Three money managers awarded a $254 million Powerball jackpot said Tuesday there's no fourth participant despite a claim they...

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Restoring Capitalism: Why Atlas Shrugged

Bruce Judson | Posted 01.21.2012 | Business

Read More: Banks, Financial Crisis, Capitalism, Hedge Funds, Ayn Rand, Financial Reform, Business News

The Washington establishment has misinterpreted what Ayn Rand valued and what she would advocate today.

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Colin Powell Plays the Risk Card

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 01.15.2012 | Politics

Read More: Investment Banks, Goldman Sachs, Secretary of State, Colin Powell, Hedge Funds, Occupy Wall Street, Piers Morgan, #Occupywallstreet, Wall Street Bonuses, Glass-Steagall, Politics News

The former Secretary of State is either completely ignorant of of the basic facts associated with the financial industry or he is a paragon of someone who has succeeded in a massively slanted socioeconomic system an has no interest in seeing it even slightly leveled.

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Paul Volcker: Volcker Rule Too Complicated

Posted 01.09.2012 | Business

Read More: Financial Industry, Video, Bankruptcy, Hedge Funds, Federal Deposit Insurance Corp, MF Global, U.S. Federal Reserve, Paul Volcker, Volcker Rule, Private Equity, Business News

The Volcker rule is too long and complicated and financial lobbyists are to blame, said the man who gave his name to the new regulation on bank tr...

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The Visionary Behind NY's New Math Museum

Posted 01.01.2012 | Arts

Read More: New York Math Museum, Google, Lottery, Math, National Debt, Harvard University, Hedge Funds, Goudreau Museum, Jim Simons, Renaissance Technologies Llc, Bernard Goudreau, Mathematics, Math-Museum, Harvard, Glen Whitney, New York City, New York, Arts News

Math may suffer from a reputation for difficulty, but the new Museum of Mathematics, scheduled to open in 2012 in Manhattan, is trying to change that ...

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