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Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows files for U.S. bankruptcy
Crypto hedge fund Three Arrows Capital has filed for bankruptcy under Chapter 15 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, according to a court filing in the Southern District of New York on Friday. Three Arrows C...
Zendesk Close to Striking Buyout Deal, Sources Say
Zendesk Inc. is close to a deal with a group of buyout firms, according to people familiar with the matter, resurrecting a failed attempt to sell itself in what would be one of the biggest private-equ...
Ken Griffin Moving Citadel From Chicago to Miami Following Crime Complaints
Billionaire Ken Griffin is relocating his hedge-fund firm Citadel from Chicago to Miami, the third major employer to announce the move of a corporate headquarters from Illinois in the past two months....
Crypto platform Voyager Digital shares plunge 60% after revealing $665 million exposure to embattled hedge fund; considers issuing default notice
Crypto platform Voyager Digital Ltd. VOYG, -52.50% shares plunged more than 60% Wednesday after the company said its subsidiary Voyager Digital LLC, may issue a notice of default to embattled crypto ...
‘The pain will go on’
Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, Founder, Co-Chairman & Co-CIO, at the WEF in Davos, Switzerland on May 24th, 2022. Adam Galica | CNBC Billionaire investor Ray Dalio is right to have bet against...
Ethereum close to its major upgrade, but why has it fallen more than bitcoin?
This article has been updated to correct the identification of Citadel Securities. Hello! Welcome back to Distributed Ledger, our weekly crypto newsletter that reaches your inbox every Thursday. I’m w...
Western Digital Said It Would Consider Breaking in Two. Its Stock Is Dropping.
Text size Activist investor Elliott Management says that Western Digital’s flash memory business alone could be worth as much as the whole company now. Dreamstime Western Digital stock, after an...
This big investor called inflation early and sees it above 7% at year’s end
Far from the bustle of Wall Street, inside his downtown Minneapolis office, Tim Magnusson got his first aching gut feeling about U.S. inflation in May of last year. That’s when U.S. government data sh...
Tiger Global drops 14% in May during the tech sell-off, pushing hedge fund’s 2022 losses to over 50%
Chase Coleman, founder of Tiger Global Management LLC Amanda L. Gordon | Bloomberg | Getty Images Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management suffered huge losses in May amid a tech-driven sell-off,...
Michael ‘Big Short’ Burry Shorts Apple
Infamous investor Michael Burry of “The Big Short” has bet against Apple ( (AAPL) – Get Apple Inc. Report), according to a SEC filing. During the first quarter, Burry, a hedge fund i...
2 Stocks to Buy Amid Tech’s Wreckage
Text size Tens of billions of investors’ capital has been vaporized inside some top tech hedge funds. It could be the quickest collapse of dollar value in hedge fund history. Dreamstime Warren Buffett...
Citadel’s flagship hedge fund rallies 7% in April, brings 2022 returns to nearly 13%
Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO, Citadel Mike Blake | Reuters Billionaire investor Ken Griffin’s hedge fund wowed the industry with big outperformance in April, overcoming a brutal market rout and ...
Opinion: Warren Buffett’s investing prowess will go on forever after researchers cracked his investing code
If you’re an investor in Berkshire Hathaway Inc., your performance need not suffer when Warren Buffett stops running the company. That’s according to researchers who claim to have created a stock-pick...
Melvin Capital weighs unwinding current fund to start new one: Sources
Gabe Plotkin, chief investment officer and portfolio manager of Melvin Capital Management LP, speaks during the Sohn Investment Conference in New York, May 6, 2019. Alex Flynn | Bloomberg | Getty Imag...
Why a ‘1970s-style’ inflation spiral is a growing threat, according to a major hedge fund
One of the world’s largest macro hedge funds sees a rising risk of a 1970s-type wage-price spiral, according to a Thursday news report. “This combination of high inflation, tight labour markets, and u...
Long/ Short Equity Popular Among Fund Managers But Not Investors
It’s looking like hedge fund managers might not be so attuned to the wants and needs of investors. Studies show that long/ short equity is the most popular strategy employed by fund managers, bo...
Globalization isn’t over, just don’t invest in countries run by despots
Kyle BassThe Russia’s unprovoked war against Ukraine is not a death knell for globalization but should be a wake-up call about the risks of investing in countries that aren’t democracies, ...
Forget Benjamin Graham? These Legendary Investors Have Changed Their Definitions Of Value Investing
Hedge funds broadly continued their rotation from growth to value stocks during the fourth quarter, as was apparent from an analysis of 13F filings. The months- or years-long rotation (depending on wh...
Banks’ Exposures To Russia Are Much More Transparent Than That Of Non-Banks
Hundreds of financial institutions are exposed to Russia, but we do not know by how much. NurPhoto via Getty Images Remember Long Term Capital Management and AIG? I sure do. LTCM imploded in 1998, in ...
Billionaire Ken Griffin Admits He Was Wrong About Bitcoin, Crypto
Billionaire Ken Griffin has a rocky relationship with the crypto sphere, to say the least. After being one of the fledgling critics of the young industry, he distinguished himself by buying up at the ...
Oil Is Surging. Why Oil Stocks Are Down.
Text size Oil prices are higher, but concerns about economic growth are weighing on oil stocks. Mario Tama/Getty Images Oil prices soared on Thursday after Russia invaded Ukraine. But oil stocks were ...
Investors Vote With Their Money In Favor Of Private Capital Hybrid Hedge Funds
It’s no secret that investors have been disappointed with hedge fund performance in recent years. As a group, hedge funds again underperformed the major stock market indices during the fourth qu...
This little-known Vanguard fund has been crushing it — yes, even in this market
What would Jack Bogle think? The legendary Vanguard founder, who died three years ago at 89, famously advised investors to avoid anything fancy in their retirement portfolios, 401(k) plans and IRAs. B...