Blog Archive

• ■  2013
  • ■  January
    • Say What!? Market observers sound off on Ackman’s Herbalife attack, Japanese bonds, and the value of Apple
• ■  2012
  • ■  December
    • Say What?! Market observers sound off on PhD’s, guilty pleas, and the price of hedge fund GLG
  • ■  November
    • Say What? Market Observers Sound Off on the Fiscal Cliff, Shorting China and Hedge Fund Art Collections
  • ■  October
    • Hedge Fund Managers Gear Up to Rock Out at Annual Charity Bash
  • ■  August
    • George Soros is engaged
  • ■  July
    • Steve Cohen is king of the art world—again
    • Apollo founder Leon Black pays $120 million for Munch’s “The Scream”
  • ■  June
    • Claren Road majority owner Rubenstein shells out $2 million for copy of Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation
    • Whitebox’s Andy Redleaf has ‘oh my god’ reaction to new research from UPenn, UChicago professors
    • Hedge funds help raise nearly $1 million at Autism Speaks golf tournament
    • Hedge funds smoke the competition at 3.5 mile road race
    • Advantage, Paulson: Billionaire buys $49 million Aspen ranch from Saudi prince
    • Obama at Lasry fundraiser: Republicans think "all regulations are bad"
    • Marc Lasry hosts $40K-per-head Obama fundraiser
  • ■  May
    • Tampa Bay Buccaneer great Warrick Dunn to be honored at Diamondback co-founder’s June 7 fundraiser
    • Ackman gives $10 million to help human rights
    • Canyon CEO Mitch Julis puts $26M NYC apartment on market
    • Maroon 5 rocks SALT
    • Great Food for a Great Cause
    • Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Simon
  • ■  April
    • Dinner and art at the Cohens'
    • High Water Women sets seventh annual casino night
    • Dalio shells out for Greenwich party headlined by Paul Simon
  • ■  March
    • Marathon exec organizes gala fundraiser at the Plaza for pediatric foundation
    • Anthony Scaramucci: Don’t start a hedge fund
    • Patrick Bateman of ‘American Psycho’ now working as hedge fund manager, author says
    • Citadel’s Griffin: Ultra wealthy should flex more political muscle
    • Hedge fund hoop squad beats private equity posse at charity basketball tournament
    • Heartbreak for Harbinger
    • Mr. Met
  • ■  February
    • Hedge Funds Care to feature Joe Torre at 14th Annual benefit
    • Hedge funds get fare hearing from London cabbie
    • AQR’s Asness building gigantic mansion in Greenwich, Conn.
    • George Soros falls to fourth place in annual Chronicle of Philanthropy rankings
    • A hedgie helps out
    • Cohen eyes Hollywood
    • Simons’ lavish gift
  • ■  January
    • Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square Foundation goes off-Broadway with $25 million gift
    • Caxton founder Bruce Kovner donates $20 million to Juilliard
• ■  2011
  • ■  December
    • Hedge fund party raises $1.9 million
    • Asset managers win Powerball
    • A warning from Dalio
  • ■  November
    • Ray Dalio makes a $10 million challenge grant to Robin Hood
    • Newest Powerball winners boast hedge fund ties
    • Thiel takes his dim view of the future to the masses
    • Former hedge fund manager protests for ‘Occupy Greenwich’
    • Rocking out
    • Starry night
    • Robin Hood spectacular
  • ■  October
    • Rajaratnam gets big screen treatment
    • Ray Dalio: “We may experience an economic, social and political collapse”
    • Whitebox sponsors financial research awards
    • Soros sounds alarm on eurozone crisis
    • Michael Lewis homes in on Kyle Bass’s killer instinct in new book
    • Singh fights daughter’s disease
    • A record divorce?
  • ■  September
    • Zeitgeist? ABC's "Revenge" goes after polo-loving, insider-trading hedge fund manager
    • Visium PM places fourth at Warfighters charity poker tournament
    • Cliffwater exec visits 250 bars in 24 hours
    • Soros leads hedge funds on Forbes 400 list of richest Americans
    • High-stakes charity
    • George Soros, news maker
    • Hedgie Will Ferrell?
  • ■  July
    • Obama courts hedgies
    • Tepper’s home makeover
  • ■  June
    • Paulson investors cruise the Seine at Paris bash
    • Hedge funds push for gay marriage
    • Black Eyed Peas, Debbie Harry, LL Cool J, others to headline Robin Hood fundraiser
    • Dalio throws Greenwich a party
    • Louis Moore Bacon: River keeper
  • ■  May
    • Lady Gaga rocks Robin Hood
    • Hedge funders boost New York City non-profit CollegeBound Initiative
    • CQS’ Hintze attends royal wedding
    • Cohen rethinks Mets bid
    • High Water Women raise $500,000
    • A classical gift
  • ■  April
    • Dalio joins the Gates-Buffett Giving Pledge
    • Paulson, Lippmann named in congressional financial crisis report
    • The Bridgewater tapes: 12 employees discuss the firm's culture
    • Paulson to host Vegas jaunt for Advantage investors
    • Robin Hood goes Gaga
    • Hedge fund heartthrob
    • Gala raises $2 million
  • ■  March
    • NBC’s 30 Rock pokes fun at John Paulson
    • Hedge funds net victory over private equity
    • Hollywood hedge fund ‘arbitrage’
    • New faces at Robin Hood
    • No amazin’ deal for Cohen, Lasry
    • George Soros listed as top philanthropist
  • ■  February
    • David Tepper cautious on Pittsburgh Steelers—and the markets
    • David Tepper joins Robin Hood board, mulls donating majority of fortune
    • Louis Moore Bacon’s plantation
    • Falcone’s $22.5M mortgage
    • White House meets Wall Street
  • ■  January
    • Few hedge funds at Davos to rebut banking industry spitballs
    • Grossman donates QFS stake to University of Chicago
• ■  2010
  • ■  December
    • Soros, Jon Stewart and Fox
    • Hedgies to Obama: Raise my taxes
    • Hedge fund women garner mentoring funds
  • ■  November
    • "Yes Men" pranksters call for citizen’s arrest of John Paulson
    • For Crosscourt PM, bridge is the new poker
    • Money raised for autism
    • Hot hedgies under 40
  • ■  September
    • Hedge funds place prominently on Forbes 400
    • Tepper: 76th Most Influential
    • Druckenmiller focuses on philanthropy
    • Hedge Funds Care to host Cocktails on the Sound
    • Soros gives big for human rights
  • ■  August
    • T. Boone Pickens: Ladies man
    • Hedge fund elite join Buffett-Gates philanthropy project
    • Hedge fund fraudster faces grizzly situation
  • ■  July
    • Credit crunch country singer Merle Hazard tackles Greece
    • Paulson buys Aspen estate
    • Technical foul
    • Bottles in the closet
    • Be the hyena
  • ■  June
    • David Tepper does the Hamptons
    • Marathon's Rabinowitz raises $500K for pediatric care
    • Bowling for Capital
    • Hedge Funds Care preps charity golf tournament
  • ■  May
    • At Ira Sohn, a singing Tepper and a golden Einhorn
    • Ira Sohn to feature Tepper, Ackman, Einhorn
  • ■  April
    • Marathon COO hosts walk/run to raise money for pediatric care
    • Activist hedge fund manager Eric Rosenfeld's new book is a gas
    • Lone Pine’s Stephen Mandel elected chairman of Dartmouth’s board of trustees
    • SAC's Cohen donates $50 million to children’s medical center
  • ■  March
    • Frontpoint subprime star Steve Eisman's prime sale
    • Cohen buys famous Jasper Johns 'Flag'
    • Hedge funds victorious at charity basketball tournament
    • Julian Robertson makes $10 million donation to stem cell research
    • SAC's Stevie Cohen donates Zamboni to private school
    • Alan Howard joins Forbes World's Billionaires list
    • Bernie’s daughter-in-law seeks to drop the Madoff name
    • Hedge funds to battle private equity firms in charity basketball game
    • N.Y. manager dines with Warren Buffett…for free
    • Scotia Capital’s Patrick Blessing to tackle 200km bike ride for cancer hospital
    • Jeff Vinik shows that sports teams are hottest new hedge fund status symbol
    • Boone Pickens bets Jim Cramer $100 that his energy plan will pass Congress by Memorial Day
    • New Zealand knights its 'Lord of the Lodges'
  • ■  February
    • Hedge fund fraudster sues over revoked NYU MBA
    • Jay-Z suing Highland Capital over hotel loan
    • BlackRock’s Birch trades hedging for hedgerows
    • Ex-BlueBay manager banned from City for cut-and-paste job
    • Davos remains largely a hedge-free zone
    • Texas prime brokerage pro seeks support for children's shelter
    • Bill Ackman donates $1 million to Haiti relief efforts
    • Uma, Arki back on
    • Out of the hedges and into the House
    • ACLU loses key hedge fund backer
• ■  2009
  • ■  December
    • Chelsea Clinton's hedge fund wedding
    • SAC's seedier side
    • CQS founder Michael Hintze awarded the Prince of Wales Medal for Arts Philanthropy
  • ■  October
    • Citadel's Ken Griffin educates Chicago
    • Bernie Madoff and Sam Israel's cars get auctioned
    • One in five fund managers are liars, study says
    • Dan Och saves White Plains summer jobs
    • "Picken" his charities carefully
    • George Soros nears top of givers list, with $7.2 billion donated
    • John Paulson hosts Hamptons summer soirée
    • Todd Stottlemyre, former major league pitcher, tries hand at hedge funds
    • One man's fortress...
  • ■  August
    • The Art of Payback
    • Life on the Inside
    • From Soros, $35M to NY kids
    • Lord of the Lodges
    • Hung Out to Dry