Hedge Fund Managers See Billion-Dollar Paydays
Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, e...
Hedge fund managers, those masters of a secretive, sometimes volatile financial universe, are making money on a scale that once seemed unimaginable, e...
Portfolio | Felix Salmon | Posted 05.25.2011
Insight from Baruch: The strategists at my beloved employer told the punters, correctly, that this year would see a lot of volatility in equities...
New York Times | MICHAEL M. GRYNBAUM | Posted 05.25.2011
The NYT reports: The Bush administration on Monday rolled out the broadest overhaul of Wall Street regulation since the Great Depression, presenting...
ABC News | ALICE GOMSTYN | Posted 05.25.2011
He might be the most-celebrated stock-picker on TV, but many say Jim Cramer got it wrong and some have renewed an older criticism of the television ho...
Fortune's Stanley Bing | Posted 05.25.2011
I've been in business for about 5,427 dog years and at no time during my career has there ever been a day when somebody wasn't worried about what some security analyst was writing about us.
Wall Street Journal | GREGORY ZUCKERMAN, JENNY STRASBURG and TOM MCGINTY | Posted 05.25.2011
The collapse of Bear Stearns Cos. dealt a severe blow to investors, from big names like billionaire Joseph Lewis to thousands of employees of the brok...
Harry Fuller | Posted 05.25.2011
This is the latest in terror tactics: give me money or I blow my corporation up. The U.S. hasn't been this pathetic since Katrina.
David Neubert | Posted 05.25.2011
I've been getting the inside scoop from some hedgefund traders (who always request to remain anonymous).
Financial Times | Anuj Gangahar | Posted 05.25.2011
Assets at the largest US hedge funds grew by more than a third last year, even though three of the 10 largest funds lost a combined $24bn in assets th...
National Review | Byron York | Posted 05.25.2011
I have a new story today about Michelle Obama's visit to Zanesville, Ohio, where she met with a group of women at a local day care center. According ...
New York Post | Brian Garrity | Posted 05.25.2011
Harbinger Capital Partners is tightening its grip on the New York Times and Chairman Arthur "Pinch" Sulzberger Jr. The investment firm yesterday rais...
Reuters | Posted 05.25.2011
Hedge fund manager John Paulson, who earned billions of dollars last year by betting against the housing market, said on Tuesday that former Federal R...
New York | Daily Intelligencer | Posted 05.25.2011
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...
Los Angeles Times | Joseph Menn | Posted 05.25.2011
The start-up Pay by Touch seemed close to a sure thing, with its futuristic approach to speeding shoppers through checkout lines while protecting thei...
New York Times | Andrew Ross Sorkin | Posted 05.25.2011
A life of private jets and black-tie balls ended with Seth Tobias, a wealthy investment manager and a familiar presence on CNBC, floating face down in...
Globe And Mail | Paul Waldie | Posted 05.25.2011
Canada's hedge fund industry has its share of rogues, but few are as colourful as Paul Eustace. By his own admission in a deposition filed in court, ...
New Yorker | John Cassidy | Posted 05.25.2011
On a wall opposite Victor Niederhoffer's desk is a large painting of the Essex, a Nantucket whaling ship that sank in the South Pacific in 1820, after...
The New York Times | Louise Story | Posted 05.25.2011
Most people who knew Gabriel Hammond at Johns Hopkins in the late 1990s could have predicted he would rise quickly on Wall Street. As a freshman, he t...
New York Times | JENNY ANDERSON | Posted 05.25.2011