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...Unlike other big Hollywood studios, Sony management decided not to pour billions into building its own streaming service to compete with Netflix....
...Philippe Lafont’s Coatue lost 19 per cent, and Lee Ainslie’s Maverick Capital dropped 23 per cent. Light Street Capital was down 50 per cent by the end of September, the last update we’ve seen....
...Prominent “Tiger Cubs” including Tiger Global, Coatue Management and Maverick Capital have taken an active role in backing public and private technology companies that could be considered expensive on traditional...
...Tiger Management....
...Last Thursday one of Muddy Waters’ Cayman Islands vehicles, MW Domino Management LLC, disclosed a 0.69 per cent short of Pantheon on the FCA register....
...Tiger Global, Coatue, Viking, Maverick, Lone Pine, D1 and Light Street declined to comment....
...Since buying a stake in Vodafone months earlier, Cevian, Europe’s largest activist investor with roughly $15bn in assets under management, had been quietly engaging with management and the board....
...Andreas Halvorsen and Maverick’s Lee Ainslie....
...“We were young and hyper-competitive analysts competing against people [in other firms] who worked seven-hour days and were used to two-martini lunches,” said Lee Ainslie, founder of Maverick Capital....
...Lee Ainslie’s Maverick and Jonathan Jacobson’s Highfields fund managers also dropped from the list. The biggest loss among the 20 managers last year was by John Paulson....
...In general, mavericks are not appreciated in rule-bound Japan. Nomura is no exception. Email the Lex team at lex@ft.com...
...It has raised more than $400m in venture capital since Mark Cuban, the entrepreneur owner of the Dallas Mavericks basketball team, gave the company its first angel investment in 2005....
...Chris Shumway gave $750,000 to Restore our Future, while John Griffin of Blue Ridge Partners donated $125,000 to the same super-Pac, and Lee Ainslie, of Maverick Capital sent $100,000 to the group....
...Guy Hands, the maverick founder of buy-out house Terra Firma, last week described the current era as “wilderness years” for private equity as opposed to the “Woodstock years” that preceded the financial...
...Speaking on a panel with Mr Englander, Lee Ainslie, head of Maverick Capital Management, said that his biggest fear had been that a not-guilty verdict in the Galleon case would have prompted a wide range...
...Youku is backed by Brookside Capital Partners, Farallon Capital Management, Maverick Capital and Sutter Hill Ventures, while E-Commerce China Dangdang’s investors include DCM, IDG Technology Venture Investment...
...EMI’s management now looks more stable under Roger Faxon, the former head of its music publishing division....
...As Lee Ainslie of Maverick Capital recently described it to Value Investor Insight: “One thing I learnt from Julian Robertson [Ainslie’s former boss at Tiger Management] is the concept that there are no...
...A dealmaker with Creative Management Associates, which went on to become International Creative Management, she was the pre-eminent Hollywood talent agent for more than 20 years until her retirement in 1986...
...Maverick Entertainment, the children’s entertainment rights developer, was down 5.9 per cent at 0.4p as it said announced that chairman Derek Morris had sold 8m shares at 0.32p per share....
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