Crypto’s Domino Effect Is Widening, Threatening More Pain

Turmoil in the digital-assets ecosystem has grown in recent weeks, with losses in cryptocurrencies blowing holes in balance sheets and pushing firms near bankruptcy. After a pair of cryptocurrencies c...

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...

Employees Scrambled to Keep Robinhood Afloat in January 2021 Meme-Stock Frenzy, House Report Finds

Robinhood Markets struggled to handle huge volumes of stock trading and sparred with its principal customer, market maker Citadel Securities, during the week in January 2021 when meme stocks exploded,...

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...

London Metal Exchange hit with two U.S. lawsuits over nickel trading chaos

Traders operate in the Ring, the open trading floor of the new London Metal Exchange (LME) in central London. Matt Clinch | CNBC LONDON — A second U.S. firm has sued the London Metal Exchange for $15....

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...

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...

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...

For Ackman’s Pershing Square, a Record of Big Hits and Misses

Pershing Square Capital’s William Ackman has had some successes in recent years, but also some big flops, with Netflix being the latest example. Bryan Bedder/Getty Images for The New York Times ...

Why Bill Ackman gave up on Netflix just three months after buying the stock

Pershing Square Holdings Ltd. Chief Executive William Ackman, in a letter to shareholders, said Wednesday he sold the hedge fund’s investment in Netflix Inc. Ackman said he had high regard for Netflix...

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...

Ackman’s Closed-End Fund Trades at a Steep Discount. Maybe It’s the High Fees.

Investor Bill Ackman recently highlighted market-beating 17% annualized returns generated by his Pershing Square Capital Management since 2004. But many investors in Ackman’s largest investment vehicl...

Bill Ackman Is Chilling After Netflix

Text size Bill Ackman of Pershing Square Capital Management Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg Shareholder activism has come roaring back in 2022 but it’s missing one of its most prominent voices. There were...

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, ...

Carl Icahn is expanding his animal-welfare campaign to Kroger

Carl Icahn Adam Jeffery | CNBC Carl Icahn is expanding his animal-welfare campaign to the nation’s largest supermarket chain, Kroger, after the famed activist investor initially targeted McDonal...

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 ...

Opinion: Meme stocks soar on bad news for Melvin Capital and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine

Shares in GameStop GME, +8.45% closed up 8.5% Thursday, while stock in AMC Entertainment AMC, +12.40% soared 12.4% as retail investors digested global unrest and some trouble for one —or maybe two— Wa...

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...