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Elliot Management Relocating to Florida
Activist investor Paul Singer has decided to move his $41 billion hedge fund manager to Florida, joining a growing number of investment companies looking to lower their state tax burden. Elliot Management will keep some office space in Manhattan, but his new headquarters will be in West Palm Beach. He will also open offices in […]
Investor Soo Kim Buys Rights to Bally’s Brand for $20 Million
Soo Kim, 45, hedge fund investor and owner of gaming company Twin River Worldwide Holdings, purchased the global rights to the Bally’s name from owner Caesars Entertainment. The $20 million purchase will give Kim the rights to put the name on all of his gaming investments which include 11 casinos and his publicly traded headquarters. […]
Snoddy’s Comeback Firm Earns Him 17% Returns with New Japan Hedge Fund
David Snoddy, a graduate of Tiger Management who took a break from investing for a few years, came roaring back over the past year and a half with 17% growth on his newly established long-short Japan hedge fund. Snoddy worked for Julian Robertson’s Tiger Management in the Tokyo office until he went out on his […]
Tyr Capital Holding Its Own in Volatile Market
Newly launched crypto hedge fund, Tyr Capital Arbitrage SP, reported excellent, double-digit gains after just one year of investing. Nick Norris, Ed Hindi, and Nick Metzidakis created Tyr Capital in January 2019 in London. The fund focuses on soft commodity and energy markets. Two of the three men, Norris and Hindi, worked together at Geneva […]
Brevan Howard Doing Well Amid Current Financial Uncertainty
New Jersey-based Brevan Howard Asset Management is riding the storm of the coronavirus outbreak in excellent shape, predicting that March could be its best month since it was founded in 2003. The firm’s flagship macro hedge fund, Brevan Howard Master Fund, saw a rise of 17% during the first three weeks of March, adding up […]
BlueCrest Makes $2 Billion for Owner Michael Platt in 2019
Last year was a great year for Michael Platt, by anybody’s standards. Four years ago the head of BlueCrest Capital Management, Platt, decided to close his fund to new investors and to dismiss his old clients, leaving him the sole owner of his hedge fund. Platt, however, kept his trading teams working, amassing wealth exclusively […]
Hedge Fund TCI to Demand More Green from Companies
An unlikely investor is taking drastic steps to bring sustainability to his portfolio. Sir Christopher Hohn, the British head of the New York hedge fund TCI, will use his $30 billion worth of influence to demand that the companies in his portfolio disclose their carbon footprint and reduce their use of fossil fuels and greenhouse […]
First Compliant Cryptocurrency Hedge Fund Opens in Asia
The Circle Fund, with teams of investors in Shanghai, Hong Kong and New York, is the first Asian cryptocurrency hedge fund to be compliant with global regulations. The company behind the fund is made up of people with over five years of experience in the primary and secondary blockchain industry markets. The investors involved in […]
Parplus Fund Has No Management Fees
James Carney, founder of Parplus Partners, says his fund will never take a management fee. He will, instead, charge his clients a performance fee when and if his funds surpass the S&P 500 stock index. “Eat what you kill. That’s what I’ve been doing for 34 years,” said Carney, who is also the fund’s CEO. […]
BlueCrest Capital Ringing in the New Year with Great Gains for 2019
Michael Platt’s BlueCrest Capital, now a private investment firm, saw profits climb by about 50% this past year. The hedge fund has had a run of great years since it gave back outside investors’ funds and became a strictly family investment company. Until 2015 BlueCrest was one of the world’s largest hedge funds. The company […]