Nir Bar Dea, CEO of Bridgewater Associates, and Hugh Evans, his counterpart at poverty relief-focused non-profit Global Citizen, will host an Africa Economic Summit to support fundraising efforts by the World Bank, according to a report by Fortune.
Elliott Investment Management, the activist hedge fund firm founded by Paul Singer, has built a “large” stake in Sumitomo, one of Warren Buffett’s favourite Japanese trading houses, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Activist hedge fund firm Sachem Head Capital Management’s Managing Partner Scott Ferguson will be given a seat on Delivery Hero’s supervisory board, after building a 3.6% stake in the Germany-based food delivery company, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Elliott Investment Management, the activist hedge fund firm led by Paul Singer, holds an approximately $1bn stake in Anglo American, the UK-listed mining company that is the subject of an unsolicited takeover bid from Australia’s BHP Group, according to a
Short bets against the Japanese yen held by hedge funds have reached the second highest level ever seen, even as the currency has fallen to 34-year lows against the US dollar, according to a report by Reuters.
Soaring cocoa prices and a slump in the Japanese yen are among several financial market trends that have helped computer-driven quant hedge funds to rack up strong returns in the first quarter of the year, according to a report by
US hedge fund Elliott Investment Management believes market participants are too pessimistic about the size of Thames Water’s debt pile and has built a position in the troubled utility company’s bonds, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Taula Capital Management, the new hedge fund founded by former Millennium Management Portfolio Manager Diego Megia, which is set to begin trading later this quarter, is setting up an office in Milan, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Appaloosa Management, the distressed debt-focused hedge fund firm founded by David Tepper and Jack Walton, has become the latest company to file a lawsuit over the wipeout of $17bn of high-risk bonds in UBS Group’s deal last year to save
JANA Partners, the activist hedge fund firm founded by Barry Rosenstein, has written a letter to Wolfspeed, the world’s largest manufacturer of silicon carbide, to consider all options for improving shareholder value including a sale of the company, according to
