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...Its performance since its inception makes it the most successful hedge fund in history. Halvorsen’s Viking made $6bn last year....
...Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking lost only 2.5 per cent in its main hedge fund — respectable given the equity market turbulence....
...“If you buy one you buy them all,” said one hedge fund investor, referring to investing in the cubs’ funds. Tiger Global, Coatue, Viking, Maverick, Lone Pine, D1 and Light Street declined to comment....
...What started out as a public stockpicking hedge fund under Coleman has evolved into a multipronged operation that has risen to stardom on its private investment funds — overseen by longtime executive Scott...
...The interest in private assets comes on the back of huge gains reaped by some so-called Tiger cubs — protégés of Julian Robertson’s famed Tiger Management — such as Tiger Global’s Chase Coleman, Viking’s...
...Not all the cubs have gone on to become Vikings, Coatues or Tiger Globals....
...His interest in public policy goes back to his childhood when his father, Ira Millstein, worked in the antitrust division of the Department of Justice in the 1940s....
...Roche arrived at the Illinois Institute of Technology in 1948 but only lasted a semester, running out of funds and finding Mies disappointingly tight-lipped....
...Viking Global Investors, a $25bn fund founded by Andreas Halvorsen, held a stake in Facebook worth $1.49bn — the fund’s single biggest position — while David Tepper’s Appaloosa held 10.2 per cent of its...
...Daniel Sundheim, former chief investment officer of Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Capital, is reported to have raised $4bn for a launch....
...Daniel Sundheim, the former chief investment officer of Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Capital, and Greg Coffey, who was once the co-chief investment officer at Moore Capital, are among other hedge fund managers...
...By Jennifer Hughes and Peter Wells in Hong Kong We’re not sure US and UK regulators attend hedge fund conferences, but in Hong Kong they do....
...Paulson and Viking could have been hit much harder: the funds trimmed their stakes in Allergan by more than 1m shares each in the fourth quarter....
...Data compiled by the FCA show Lansdowne, Viking Global Investors, Passport Capital and Steadfast Capital Management hold a short position in Glencore equivalent to four per cent of its entire share capital...
...“From the wrath of the Northmen, oh lord, deliver us,” were the words gabbled by Dark Age peasants in hopes of warding off Vikings....
...From How Music Got Free by Stephen Witt, published on June 16, 2015 by Viking, an imprint of Penguin Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC. Copyright by Stephen Witt, 2015....
...Each man – there were no women – pitched an investment idea from their portfolio to a sold-out crowd of investors, all for a charity set up to honour the late Ira Sohn, a financial analyst who died of cancer...
...Fear Itself: The New Deal and the Origins of Our Time, by Ira Katznelson, WW Norton, RRP£22/$29.95 Katznelson’s book offers the freshest perspective on the New Deal for many years....
...It starts in fin de siècle Paris with Louis Bachelier’s “random walk” model, runs through the blackjack tables of Las Vegas, and ends with today’s Renaissance Technologies fund....
...How wise the words of Ira Gershwin....
...In the US, Steve Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors saw its flagship fund return 13 per cent, while Andreas Halvorsen’s $7bn Viking Global Equities fund returned just 3.8 per cent for the year....
...Crispin Odey (5.03%) MTD (3.83%) YTD Pershing Square Bill Ackman (1.8%) MTD 6.3% YTD Sloane Robinson Global Hugh Sloane (3.1%) MTD (5.64%) YTD Third Point Offshore Daniel Loeb (1.7%) MTD 17.26% YTD Viking...
...(click to listen) With failing economies, failing banks and failing stocks, bonds, IRAs, mutual funds, you can make profits during chaotic times… We have for 21 years And with the current credit crisis...
...MR ZELL: The employees’ contribution represents that which the company previously matched their IRA contributions....
...Governments and unionists should recognise and indeed applaud the IRA's imaginative efforts to tackle its pension fund deficit rather than seeking to use its fund-raising activities against it in negotiations...
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