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27 Aug 2019, 20:39

D.E. Shaw asked staff to sign a take-it-or-leave non-compete, and the deadline is weeks away. Insiders say some people could walk even after management improved the payout.

D.E. Shaw D.E. Shaw was founded by David Shaw more than 30 years ago. D.E. Shaw...

09 Aug 2019, 02:37

Balyasny just booted its quant head and it signals a strategy revamp at the $6 billion hedge fund

Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Dmitry Balyasny speaks at the 2018 Milken Conference in Beverly Hills, California. Dmitry Balyasny is...

08 Aug 2019, 03:19

AMG is offloading its majority stake in struggling hedge fund BlueMountain for $91 million

BlueMountain website Affiliated Managers Group sold its majority stake in Andrew Feldstein's BlueMountain Capital to Assured...

03 Aug 2019, 01:38

BlueMountain's head of fundamental credit is leaving the firm. Here's the one of the last investments he pitched.

Ralph Wilson/AP $18.5 billion hedge fund manager BlueMountain is losing its head of fundamental credit, Omar ...

13 Jun 2019, 17:10

The booming private market has some hedge funds spreading into private equity's domain. Now a tug-of-war has broken out over talent.

Flickr / toffehoff Hedge funds and private equity firms are no longer staying in their lanes and are increasi...

12 Jun 2019, 16:30

A startup founded by a former hedge fund manager gives traders as much performance feedback as athletes so they can make better decisions. Not everyone wants in.

Hollis Johnson/Business Insider Clare Flynn Levy founded Essentia Analytics to ...

20 May 2019, 19:37

'It's a cat-and-mouse game': The head of technology at $60 billion hedge fund Two Sigma explains why cybersecurity is a bigger challenge than AI

Mike Blake/Reuters Two Sigma's chief technology officer Alfred Spector runs a t...

06 May 2019, 20:23

A hot young activist fund is pushing for change at Wyndham Hotels to save the company money and help the environment

Days Inn Facebook The Days Hotel is part of the Wyndham chain. Impactive Capital co-founder Lauren Taylor Wol...

17 Apr 2019, 23:57

Balyasny loses one of its top quants as the manager gets its footing after a disappointing 2018

Lucy Nicholson/Reuters Dmitry Balyasny speaks at the 2018 Milken Conference in Beverly Hills, California. One of Dmitry Baly...

03 Apr 2019, 02:40

The Midtown Uniform is now in peril as Patagonia isn't accepting new finance clients for its ubiquitous fleece vests

Patagonia Facebook Patagonia is limiting the number of new customers it is branding its apparel for, choosing...

14 Mar 2019, 19:18

Hedge funds are watching a key lawsuit involving LinkedIn to see if they can spend billions on web-scraped data

Stephen Lam/Getty Images A legal case involving Jeff Weiner's LinkedIn will determine the future for web-scra...

27 Feb 2019, 22:04

Stock-pickers are starting the year hot, but investors still pulled billions. It shows how the hedge fund game has fundamentally changed.

Reuters Billionaire Bill Ackman's stock picks have beaten the market to start the year. Long-short equity fun...

26 Feb 2019, 22:10

A senior Citadel portfolio manager nearly joined Balyasny - but decided to stick with Ken Griffin

CNBC/ Heidi Gutman Ken Griffin's Citadel was able to keep one of its top fixed income portfolio managers. After initially ag...

14 Feb 2019, 01:44

Bill Ackman's Pershing Square says it's 'returning to its roots,' and it shed a third of its staff in 2018 as part of the journey

Reuters Bill Ackman, CEO of Pershing Square Capital. Bill Ackman's $7.9 billion Pershing Square lost a third ...

30 Jan 2019, 21:49

The woman who helps run the top performing hedge fund of all-time reveals why vulnerability is the secret to the firm's success

Bridgewater Associates Bridgewater co-CEO Eileen Murray speaks at an executive meeting. The world's largest h...

06 Jul 2018, 13:52

Steve Cohen's hedge fund Point72 has reportedly been blocked from taking British money

Point72 Steve Cohen. FT: Steve Cohen's hedge fund Point72 has been blocked by the UK regulator from taking British money. Co...

11 Jun 2018, 21:05

'Billions' star Maggie Siff explains how a phone call with Tony Robbins helped craft her character, and what she loves about the role

Showtime "Billions" star Maggie Siff has had an impressive career picking roles on iconic shows like "Mad Men...

01 Jun 2018, 20:16

One of the hedge funders behind 'The Big Short' says betting on marijuana is the 'big long'

Paramount Pictures "The Big Short." Danny Moses, a hedge funder at the center of "The Big Short" said investing in cannabis ...

30 May 2018, 16:32

The top hedge fund managers earned a combined $15.4 billion last year

Jonathan Ernst/Reuters Hedge fund founder Jim Simons of Renaissance Technologies topped this year's rich list. The top 25 he...

16 May 2018, 02:26

David Tepper's hedge fund dumped its entire Apple stake ahead of the billionaire's expected purchase of the Carolina Panthers

Thomson Reuters David Tepper, founder of Appaloosa Management, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference i...

01 Mar 2018, 00:36

The global head of investor relations at $28 billion investor Angelo Gordon has left

Reuters/Lucas Jackson Gareth Henry, global head of investor relations at hedge fund manager Angelo, Gordon, has left the fir...

25 Feb 2018, 16:36

Hedge funds did something highly unusual during the market's recent meltdown - and it's a great sign for stocks

Reuters / Neil Hall During the recent correction, losses in the stocks most popular with hedge funds were mut...

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Investors want hedge funds to 'stick to their guns' and not try to 'be heroes' as markets get turned upside down

Izzy Englander just added a quant team that was managing hundreds of millions for billionaire Michael Platt

$183 million short-seller Spruce Point is targeting the maker of Trojan condoms and Arm & Hammer baking soda