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Bradley Saacks
Investors want hedge funds to 'stick to their guns' and not try to 'be heroes' as markets get turned upside down
Reuters Traders work on the floor at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) in New York Last week's momentum slide and a surge in oil...
Bradley Saacks
Izzy Englander just added a quant team that was managing hundreds of millions for billionaire Michael Platt
Phil McCarten/Reuters Israel Englander, chairman and CEO, Millennium Partners Millennium has added a Paris-based quant team ...
Bradley Saacks
$183 million short-seller Spruce Point is targeting the maker of Trojan condoms and Arm & Hammer baking soda
lookcatalog via Flickr Church & Dwight, the maker of Trojan Condoms, is under attack from short-seller Spruce...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Bradley Saacks
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 ...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Meghan Morris
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 ...
Bradley Saacks
'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...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Dan DeFrancesco
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...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Bradley Saacks
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 ...
Bradley Saacks
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...
Oscar Williams-Grut
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...
Nathan McAlone
'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...
Jeremy Berke
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 ...
Rachael Levy
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...
Graham Rapier
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...
Rachael Levy
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...
Joe Ciolli
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...
