Merlin was speaking specifically to its own hedge fund management clientele, but some of the observations it made are quite generally applicable.
It turns out that thanks to the "2 and 20" formula, hedge fund management is rapidly becoming the best way to become ultra-rich in America.
Huge fortunes made in Silicon Valley, natural resources, retailing, hedge fund management, private equity investing and Internet startups like Google and Facebook seem likely to remain intact if not appreciate during the next decade.
Finally, Aris claims that the hedge fund management firm has continued to get its management fee of 2% on assets that Guerra has been inflating by rejecting asset sales that would reveal the fair market value of the assets on its books.
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No Big 4 audit firms or their partners have been named in the insider trading scandal surrounding the now-defunct hedge fund Galleon Management.
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Hess made a modest concession to the activist investors staging a proxy fight Friday, but hedge fund Elliott Management says the move is an empty gesture.
Chase Coleman is a Tiger Cub who went on to found hedge fund Tiger Global Management.
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"I'm impressed with the bands they've found, "says Clint Coghill of hedge fund Coghill Capital Management, which owns 180, 000 shares of ArtistDirect.
But it is nonetheless misleading, argues Surjit Bhalla, a former World Bank economist who now runs Oxus Fund Management, a hedge fund.
Secretive hedge fund manager Stanley Druckenmiller has decided to call it quits, a decade after he starting his own hedge fund Duquesne Capital Management.
Nigel Hart of hedge fund Reach Capital Management bought shares of French power utility Alstom following its announcement that it would acquire Spanish wind company Ecotecnia.
In November, Delta and UAL shares soared after hedge fund Pardus Capital Management tried to push the two together (See "Airlines May Be On Course To Combine").
Chris Wang, of New York City hedge fund syw Capital Management, warns bargain hunters to steer clear of Capital One's alluring metrics, including its price of 0.25 times book value.
He is also the director of research at hedge fund Oak Hill REIT Management.
Ackman, whose hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management owned 17.8% of J.
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He set up a hedge fund called Clarium Capital Management, starting with ten million dollars, most of it his own money.
Then giant hedge fund Long Term Capital Management collapsed due to big bets on Asian currencies, causing problems also for the large banks that had financed it.
The case against Raj Rajaratnam and Galleon traces back to a 2007 civil insider-trading investigation involving Rengan Rajaratnam's hedge fund, Sedna Capital Management, by the Securities and Exchange Commission.
Private equity shop Warburg Pincus and William Ackman of hedge fund Pershing Square Capital Management have each earned a place among Wall Street's upper reaches by making smart investments.
Managers began to use less internal leverage following the infamous blowup of the Long Term Capital Management hedge fund in 1999, although that has been edging back up in recent years.
Remember when the options-pricing pioneer Robert Merton won the award in 1997 a year before his hedge fund Long Term Capital Management imploded and almost took down the world financial system?
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Born in Budapest, Soros survived the Nazi occupation of Hungary and went on to study at the London School of Economics before launching storied hedge fund firm Quantum Fund Management in 1969.
One of the best-known hedge funds, Soros Fund Management, admitted that it chewed over the sell signal given by the Big Mac index when the euro was launched, but then decided to ignore it.
Daniel Castro, the former head of structured finance research at Merrill Lynch, thinks some mortgage securities are such a screaming deal that he's setting up a hedge fund, Huxley Capital Management, to buy them.
With the paperwork expected to follow as much as days later, there is the potential for a breakdown approaching the scale of the Long-Term Capital Management hedge fund debacle, which all but crushed Wall Street in 1998.
Since founding her firm, Evergreen Partners, in 1993, Ms. Kessler has represented the Tiger Asia Management hedge fund when it pleaded guilty to insider trading charges, and the developers of EnCap a massive Meadowlands project that sank under fraud and bribery allegations.
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Krensavage is so sure he's right about these and other drug stocks--and that the industry is a screaming buy--that he's leaving his job as a Raymond James analyst after seven years to open his own hedge fund, Krensavage Asset Management in New York City.
Currently, Anthony Chiasson, co-founder of the hedge fund Level Global Investors, and Todd Newman, a former portfolio manager at the hedge fund adviser firm Diamondback Capital Management, are in the middle of an insider trading trial in a federal court in Manhattan.
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He moved to Tampa from Boston and recently his hedge fund firm, Vinik Asset Management, has struggled.
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Joel Smolen, hedge fund manager at Axion Capital Management in San Rafael, Calif.
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