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...Hedge funds snapped up Berkshire Hathaway stock in the second quarter, with DE Shaw, Renaissance Technologies and Bridgewater Associates buying millions of shares in Warren Buffett’s conglomerate....
...Activist investors including DE Shaw and Jana Partners had been pressuring FIS to review its business strategy, including considering undoing the 2019 deal, since last year....
...For example: if Generic Greek God Capital is buying Widgetmaker Inc, 70 per cent of the equity it ponies up might come from one of its LBO funds....
...To neighbours and business associates the news was shocking....
...According to Cerulli Associates, net sales to the alternative and commodities asset class dropped by $7.1bn for the first half of the year compared with the same period a year ago....
...DE Shaw, the US quant-focused fund manager, has seen its flagship Oculus Fund return 14 per cent and its Heliant Fund rise 18 per cent....
...at the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business....
...Its rankings exclude computer-driven funds such as Renaissance Technologies, or those with no central investment manager, such as DE Shaw....
...Sandra Urie, another former student, runs Cambridge Associates, a major player in the world of non-profit investing....
...Stephen Poor, Chairman and managing partner, Seyfarth Shaw Stephen Poor has been chairman and managing partner of Seyfarth Shaw since 2001, and has led the firm to adopt the quality and efficiency methodologies...
...“They are benefiting because they have a raw material cost advantage,” said Andy Lipow, of consultants Lipow Oil Associates in Houston....
...Sterne Agee analyst Shaw Wu wrote: “We are worried that HP may be stretched thin trying to do too many things at the same time.”...
...Caxton Associates, one of the world’s largest hedge funds, is to open an office in Sydney to spearhead a push into Asia-Pacific....
...Morgan $53.5bn Bridgewater Associates $43.6bn Paulson & Co. $32.0bnBrevan Howard $27.0bnSoros Fund Mgmt. $27.0bnMan Group $25.3bnOch-Ziff Capital Mgmt. Group $23.1bnD.E....
...Before DE Shaw, he worked at Citadel Investment Group where he was the first semiconductor analyst hired into the long/short TMT fund....
...David Shaw (DE Shaw & Co) $275m 8. Stanley Druckenmiller (Duquesne Capital) $260m 9....
...mathematician Jim Simons; Chicago’s Citadel, run by Ken Griffin; SAC Capital, run by billionaire art collector Steven Cohen; Cerberus, one of the oldest hedge funds; Dallas-based HBK Capital; and Caxton Associates...
..., the New York group; SAC Capital, run by Steven Cohen; Millennium International, run by Israel Englander; Cerberus, one of the oldest hedge funds; Dallas-based HBK Capital; and Caxton Associates, run by...
...Although Avon is billed as the “Company for Women”, its diverse portfolio encompasses male grooming ranges, and a small portion of the sales associates are men....
...Top funds JP Morgan: $33.1bn Goldman Sachs: $32.5bn Bridgewater Associates: $30.2bn DE Shaw: $27.3bn Farallon Capital: $26.2bn Renaissance Technologies: $26bn Och-Ziff Capital: $21bn Barclays Global...
...Two investment banks, JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, topped the rankings for the second year in a row, with $33.1bn and $32.5bn respectively, followed by Connecticut-based Bridgewater Associates with $30.2bn...
...DE Shaw, Tudor Investment, Citadel Investment Group, Caxton Associates, SAC Capital Advisors and Pequot Capital Management have all reduced their stakes in solar- power and ethanol producers in the fourth...
...Caxton Associates: “The world’s tenth largest with assets worth $12.5bn, this hedge fund is known more for its enigmatic founder, Bruce Kovner....
.... $500m 6 Edward Lampert, ESL Investments $425m 7 Bruce Kovner, Caxton Associates $400m 8 David Tepper, Appaloosa Management $400m 9 David Shaw, D.E. Shaw & Co. $340m 10 Stephen Mandel, Jr....
...“We feel that the sense of panic on rates is overdone and we hope that the inflation report will help to anchor interest rate expectations at sensible levels,” said Philip Shaw at Investec, which viewed...
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