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2 unusual facts about Hedge fund


Bernard Lietaer

He co-founded one of the largest and most successful currency management firms; GaiaCorp, and managed an offshore currency fund (Gaia Hedge II) which was the world's top performing managed currency fund during the 1987-91 period he ran it.

Hedge fund

Of that period the best known today is the Graham-Newman Partnership, founded by Benjamin Graham and Jerry Newman, which was cited by Warren Buffett in a 2006 letter to the Museum of American Finance as an early hedge fund.


Absolute Return for Kids

ARK was co-founded by a group of hedge fund financiers including Paul Marshall and Ian Wace of Marshall Wace and Arpad Busson of EIM Group, who is founding chairman of its board of trustees.

Alexander Soros

He is the son of hedge fund manager and philanthropist George Soros and Susan Weber Soros, the founder and director of the Bard Graduate Center (BGC) for studies in the Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture affiliated with Bard College.

Bob Pisani

In December 2006, Mad Money host Jim Cramer used Pisani as an example of an easily manipulated reporter used by hedge fund managers to spread false statements about a company in order to illegally drive the stock price down.

Carrie Ann Mewha

Carrie Ann Mantha (née Mewha) was the Miss Florida USA for 2003, is a licensed Medical Doctor, and now works as an analyst covering biotechnology stocks for Galleon, a New York hedge fund.

Faked death

Samuel Israel III, an American hedge fund manager who was facing twenty years in prison for fraud, left his car and a suicide note on the Bear Mountain Bridge in an attempted fake suicide in 2008.

Friedman's Inc.

Many former employees maintain that when Friedman’s emerged from the 2004 bankruptcy after being purchased by hedge fund Harbinger Capital Partners, an era, albeit a short one, of severe incompetency and ineffectual leadership conducted by the new board of directors, company officers, and other key executives resulted in the 2008 bankruptcy, which ended with the liquidation of both Freidman's and Crescent.

Gary Weiss

Weiss authored a cover story in the April 1, 1996 edition, titled "Fall of the Wizard," that was critical of Julian Robertson's performance and behavior as manager of hedge fund Tiger Management.

Greg Hawkins

Gregory Dale Hawkins was a trader and principal in the hedge fund Long-Term Capital Management that after four spectacularly successful years lost most of its clients' money in 1998 when the Russian government defaulted on its debt payments on August 17, 1998, triggering a devaluation of the Russian ruble.

JWM Partners

JWM Partners LLC was a hedge fund started by John Meriwether after the collapse of Long Term Capital Management (LTCM) in 1998.

Lawrence R. Goldfarb

Lawrence R. Goldfarb (born November 21, 1958 in Queens, New York City, NY) is an American hedge fund manager and former CEO and founding partner of the LRG Capital Group, and co-founder and board member of AutismAid.

Lee Ainslie

Lee S. Ainslie III is the head of hedge fund Maverick Capital, which in 1993 he helped form at the invitation of billionaire Sam Wyly.

Leonard E. Baum

Later, in the late 1970s and early 1980s, Baum made important innovations in mathematical models for currency trading, working with Monemetrics, a predecessor of hedge fund management company Renaissance Technologies.

Million Dollar Traders

Million Dollar Traders was a 2009 British reality television series devised by hedge fund manager Lex van Dam which recreated the famous Turtle Traders experiment devised by Richard Dennis in the 1980s.

Peakhurst, New South Wales

Richard Farleigh (1960s-1980s), now residing in London, a successful private investor, former hedge fund manager, international chess player representing Bermuda and Monaco, and "Dragon" on the BBC Two reality television program Dragons' Den.

Seth Tobias

Seth Tobias (April 8, 1963 – September 4, 2007) was an American hedge fund manager and financial commentator who made frequent appearances on the CNBC television programs Squawk Box and Kudlow & Company.

Sonia Gardner

Sonia Gardner is an American hedge fund President, Managing Partner and co-founder of hedge fund Avenue Capital Group.

The Children's Investment Fund Management

The Children’s Investment Fund Management (UK) LLP (TCI) is a London‐based hedge fund founded by Chris Hohn in 2003 which manages The Children’s Investment Master Fund.

Tom McKillop

However, in early 2007, the Dutch bank ABN AMRO was under pressure from hedge funds, including Chris Hohn of the hedge fund TCI, to break itself up in order to maximise shareholder value.

Vikram Pandit

In March 2006, Pandit and John Havens, along with Guru Ramakrishnan (former global head of trading, technology and new products in the equities group at Morgan Stanley), started the hedge fund Old Lane LLC.


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Acquavella Galleries

In 2006, the gallery brokered a deal for the sale of a Picasso painting, Le Rêve, by the Las Vegas-based magnate Steve Wynn to the hedge fund manager Steven A. Cohen, for $139 million.

Alternative investment

The Goizueta Business School at Emory University has established the Emory Center for Alternative Investments to provide research and a forum for discussion regarding private equity, hedge fund, and venture capital investments.

Ardfin Estate

In November 2010, the Ardfin Estate was purchased by Greg Coffey, an Australian hedge-fund manager.

Bill Lipschutz

In 1995, with former Cornell classmates Lipschutz formed Hathersage, a currency hedge fund manager company where he is the Principal and Director of Portfolio Management.

Brookfield Asset Management

In January 2012, two hedge fund creditors, Trilogy Portfolio Co. and Canyon Value Realization Fund LP, in a loan with Brookfield, filed a lawsuit in Delaware Chancery Court in Wilmington asking that the court restrain Brookfield's attempt to acquire the Kerzner International properties from closing.

Caissa

Caissa Capital, a hedge fund based on volatility arbitrage in the late 1990s

Cathy O'Neil

In June 2007 Cathy started four years working in the finance industry, including two years at the hedge fund D. E. Shaw.

Commodities Corporation

Jack D. Schwager, an author on financial topics and hedge fund manager

Effy Stonem

In the two-part episode, "Fire", set three years after the ending of Series 4, Effy, now 21, is living in London with Naomi, with whom she now has a close relationship, and working a dead-end job as a receptionist in a high-profile hedge fund.

Eric Mindich

In late 2004, he left Goldman to launch his own hedge fund, named Eton Park Capital Management, sized at more than $3 billion at the time.

Glenn Dubin

In 1987, Dubin was asked by fellow hedge fund manager and close friend Paul Tudor Jones to join him and Peter Borish in a venture philanthropy project Jones had conceived and started.

He was joined in 1984 by childhood friend Henry Swieca, and the pair started Dubin & Swieca, an early "fund of funds" business that constructed multi-manager hedge fund portfolios guided by the principles of modern portfolio theory.

Gregory Zuckerman

Zuckerman has twice been part of a team which won the Gerald Loeb Award for breaking news coverage: first for coverage of the collapse of hedge fund Amaranth Advisors in 2007, and then for coverage of the demise of telecom provider WorldCom in 2003.

Highland Capital

Highland Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar distressed investment firm and hedge fund and mutual fund manager based in Dallas, Texas

Hönig

Jonathan Hoenig (born 1975), managing member at Capitalist Pig hedge fund

Johan Bollen

As a result on his work on predicting the stock market based on twitter mood, Derwent Capital Markets started the Absolute Return fund, the worlds's first Twitter hedge fund.

K. Pattabhi Jois

Jois' grandson R. Sharath Jois teamed with billionaire hedge fund investor Paul Tudor Jones' wife, Greenwich, Connecticut-based Sonia Klein Jones, to create Jois Yoga in honor of Krishna Pattabhi Jois.

Kennedy Mitchell Hall of Records

Kennedy Mitchell's son, Kennedy Mitchell, is a currency trader, published author, and hedge fund manager.

Lago Agrio oil field

In order to finance the litigation, New York lawyer Steven R. Donziger, who acted as a spokesman and lobbyist for the plaintiffs, had sold a percentage of the final settlement to a hedge fund.

Mark Kingdon

Mark E. Kingdon, hedge fund manager and president of Kingdon Capital Management

Market timing

Jim Simons' Renaissance Technologies Medallion Hedge Fund has consistently outperformed the market.

Michael Hintze

Hintze was ranked #5 on Financial News’ FN100 Most Influential list in the hedge fund category.

In 2013, Hintze's CQS received awards for the "Best Hedge Fund Manager Overall," "Best Hedge Fund Manager in Credit," and "Best Multi-Hedge Fund Manager" at the Financial News Awards for Excellence in Institutional Hedge Fund Management.

North Street

North Street Capital, LP is a privately owned private equity and hedge fund firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut.

Portfolios with Purpose

On September 6, 2012 Portfolios with Purpose announced the start of public registration, and the participation of several major hedge fund players: David Einhorn, Dan Loeb, Leon Cooperman, and Karen Finerman on the CNBC Fast Money Halftime Report.

Preston Robert Tisch

She is divorced from Donald Sussman, the founder of Paloma Partners, a hedge fund in Greenwich, Connecticut with $1.5B under management.

Rachel Kum

Born and bred in Singapore, Rachel graduated in Finance at the University of Western Australia and worked in a hedge fund company trading commodities first and then as a Brand Manager.

Samuel Israel

Samuel Israel III (born 1959), American convicted of hedge-fund fraud

Term Asset-Backed Securities Loan Facility

Senator Chuck Grassley has requested detailed information from Waterfall about its transactions and Sanders has asked Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke for more detailed information on loans made to Waterfall, former Miami Dolphins owner H. Wayne Huizenga and John Paulson, a hedge fund manager.

Tom McKillop

ABN chief executive Rijkman Groenink suspected RBS of acting in concert with the hedge fund Tosca, which was chaired by former RBS Chairman Mathewson and recommended the takeover bid of an RBS consortium, against the proposed merger with Barclays Bank.

Vbeauté

vbeauté was launched by investor and former hedge fund manager Julie Macklowe in 2011 after a 2009 incident in which the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) confiscated her toiletries before a flight to France.

Wallstrip

Creator Howard Lindzon, a small-sized hedge fund manager, described his vision for the show in the first teaser.

WisdomTree Investments

Between 2004 and 2005, the company obtained financing from a core group of investors including former hedge fund manager Michael Steinhardt, Professor Jeremy Siegel of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and James D Robinson IV with venture capital firm of RRE Ventures.