Entries tagged "Soros"
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.
Legendary hedge funder George Soros is jumping into the cleantech pool, pledging $1 billion worth of investments in the sector.
The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee had a big hedge fund party, but some of the more vocal managers were left off the guest list. Hedge fund bigwigs 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 to discuss and defend whether or not they pose a systemic risk to the financial system, what level of government regulation and oversight...
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. ...
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?...
International financier George Soros thinks the financial tension in the markets is going to ease, but there are still a number of land mines left to navigate around. Case in point: credit default swaps, or CDSs, a synthetic financial instrument that acts as an insurance policy against debt defaults....
