Entries tagged "George Soros"

Big names, plus Munchau, on regulatory reform

Sandy Weill and Wall Street analyst Judah Kraushaar tackle financial reform in a Wall Street Journal column that reads like it was cobbled together over lunch at the Four Seasons.

Soros could have been Rams owner

It seems pundit Rush Limbaugh was not St. Louis Blues' owner Dave Checketts first choice as a lead investor in his bid for the NFL's St. Louis Rams, financier George Soros was.

The eggheads did it

DealBook offers a compelling suggestion of what caused last year's financial crisis: smart guys working on Wall Street. Of course there's very little actual truth to this hypothesis.

Soros commits $1B to cleantech

Legendary hedge funder George Soros is jumping into the cleantech pool, pledging $1 billion worth of investments in the sector.

The Lehman collapse: What we're looking at

The anniversary of the demise of Lehman Brothers is upon us, and the resulting commentary, text and video make for one heck of an afternoon read.

PE firms turn IndyMac around

It wasn't too long ago that IndyMac failed. But eight months later, newly named OneWest Bank turned a $182 million profit in the second quarter.

The Times revives competitiveness debate

There are two broad realities that will erode the efficacy of any financial regulatory reform over time, no matter how well designed.

Soros: Economy needs more stimulus to save it from depression

Hedge fund legend George Soros is warning that after the "haphazard" way that the Troubled Asset Relief Program was carried out, the Federal government is going to have to ante up more than the $850 billion in stimulus funds that President Barack Obama has in the works to prevent the current recession from turning into a depression. ...

Hedge funds brace for a possible tidal wave of redemptions

Hedge funds are hunkering down to face what might be their hardest blow in a year filled with heavy blows as the deadline for investors to notify them of redemptions looms. The deadline, which comes Saturday, is expected to bring a tidal wave of withdrawals as thousands of investors tell hundreds of hedge funds they want their money back by year's end....

Hedge fund managers trek up to Capitol Hill

As the hedge fund industry gears up for a fight to head off new regulation from Congress, five of the top fund managers in the world journeyed to Capitol Hill to argue their case before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. Hedge fund billionaires George Soros of Soros Fund Management LLC, John Alfred Paulson of Paulson & Co., James Simons of Renaissance Technologies LLC, Philip A. Falcone of Harbinger Capital Partners and Kenneth C. Griffin of Citadel Investment Group LLC appeared before the committee chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman Thursday morning. ...

Soros bets on Lehman

Lehman Brothers Inc. received a vote of confidence from the man who broke the Bank of England. The billionaire financier George Soros, through his Soros Fund Management LLC, hiked his stake in the beleagured investment bank to 9.5 million shares as of June 30 from just 10,000 shares, giving him a 1.4% stake, according to a regulatory filing on Thursday. ...

The current crisis: Soros and Blankfein search for the beginning

Will all readers of signs and portents please get together and get your stories straight? Thursday I posted on some theories provided by a British (actually Scottish) hedge fund manager, Hugh Hendry, that seemed to focus on a 25-year bubble cycle that began, without explanation, in 1991 when Citibank nearly went down. This was all mysterious, but why not?...

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