Hedge Funds

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Hedge fund manager John Paulson accurately predicted the housing market collapse and positioned his investments accordingly. Years later, his once hot hedge fund is now anything but as investors are fleeing. Paulson has been on the losing side of several notable trades over the past few years,...

The appeal of investing in a hedge fund diminished as of late given hefty fees and much cheaper alternatives in the form of stock indices. Needless to say, this means that 2016 was a rough year for hedge fund managers. According to a CNBC report, the 25 individual fund managers who made the most...

The Sohn's Investment Conference brings together some of Wall Street's most notable hedge fund titans in support of a good cause. The event has raised more than $75 million globally over 20 years to fight pediatric cancer and other childhood diseases. As part of the event, hedge fund titans...

Keith Meister, founder of Corvex Management, was interviewed by CNBC's David Faber at the 13D Monitor's 8th annual Active-Passive Investor Summit. Meister said he will be presenting a case-story on how an activist investor can collaborate with a company to achieve mutually desired outcomes...

Hedge funds have come under pressure as many investors found themselves paying a hefty fee for results that underperformed the overall market. Hedge fund managers posted a mere 0.34-percent gain throughout March and a 2.29 percent return for the first quarter of 2017. By comparison, the MSCI AC...

Fr. Emmanuel Lemelson took the podium at the First Annual Stowe Conference for Charity and offered his expert wisdom, which combines his two professions: serving as a Greek Orthodox priest and hedge fund manager. While Lemelson did discuss some of his positions, including his short thesis on Domino...

Burdened by uncertainty in global and U.S. policy, hedge fund managers posted mere 0.34-percent gains in March for a first-quarter profit of 2.29 percent. At the same time, March's underlying markets gained 0.79 percent to contribute to a quarterly total of 5.06 percent, according to the MSCI AC...

President Trump's proposed border adjustment tax is intended to put American manufacturers and exporters on a more equal playing field with their international peers. But according to CNBC's Leslie Picker, hedge funds could also emerge a big winner under any new tax system. Picker explained...

Billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper was a guest on CNBC's "Squawk Box" segment Wednesday, and one of the topics of conversation focused on why he was selling Apple Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) last year at around the same time fellow billionaire Warren Buffett began accumulating the stock....

Billionaire investor Dan Loeb said in a letter to clients on Wednesday that President Donald Trump's pro-business economic policies have "awakened animal spirits." As noted by CNBC, Loeb said in his letter that Trump's victory in the presidential election represents the "most important paradigm...

The Dow Jones Industrial Average has soared more than 8 percent since the November 8 presidential election, but not all fund managers are convinced the rally is here to stay. Whitney Tilson, founder of the hedge fund Kase Capital, counts himself as a skeptic and thinks the creation of $1.6 trillion...