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Australian Financial Centre Forum

The Forum meets with asset and fund managers from around the Asia-Pacific region to attract and streamline business from Asian financial centres, including Singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai, Seoul and Tokyo.


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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.

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.

Bruce Berkowitz

Berkowitz was named 2009 Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Year and Domestic-Stock Fund Manager of the Decade by Morningstar, Inc..

Commodities Corporation

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

David Tweed

In March 2011, Justice White of the Supreme Court of New South Wales found that fund manager Perpetual Limited was justified in double-checking with shareholders before processing transfers, part of its fiduciary duties as the responsible entity.

Dollarton Cantech Letter

One notable article documented an experience of Adamou who, as a young fund manager, was the first person that Jim Balsillie of Research in Motion pitched to in a pre-IPO institutional series of meetings.

George Ross Goobey

In 1947, aged 36, he was appointed as fund manager for Imperial Tobacco's pension fund.

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.

Highland Capital

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

Jeremy Coller

Coller's early career was spent as Head of Research at Fidelity International and as a sector fund manager at ICI Pension Plan, where he was an early investor in Dayton Carr's Venture Capital Fund of America, an early secondaries firm.

Kennedy Mitchell Hall of Records

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

Mark Kingdon

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

McAllen High School

1981: Ian Naismith, Mutual Fund Manager, Notable Portfolio Manager; Professional Musician

Michael Hintze

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.

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.

V-Nee Yeh

He graduated from Milton Academy, Cum Laude '77;Williams College, BA' 81 Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude and Columbia Law School, JD 1984, Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar He is a co-founder and honorary chairman of Value Partners Group Limited, the second largest in Asian based fund manager.

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.