John Paulson

The latest round of 13-F filings from institutional investors is out, revealing to the world the stocks that some of the richest and most successful investors have been buying and selling. Takeaways From 13F Season Investors who follow particular fund managers can easily look up what each was...

With the S&P 500 up another 9.8 percent in 2017, investors are growing increasingly impatient with underperforming hedge fund managers. Active money managers have struggled to keep pace with the market for years now, but even some of the most recognizable money managers on Wall Street are now...

Analysts at Cantor Fitzgerald turned incrementally bullish on Valeant Pharmaceuticals Intl Inc (NYSE: VRX) after the once-troubled pharmaceutical company is showing signs of sustaining momentum. Cantor Fitzgerald's Louise Chen maintains an Overweight rating on Valeant's stock with a price...

Hedge fund manager John Paulson accurately predicted the housing market collapse and positioned his investments accordingly. Years later, his once hot hedge fund is now anything but as investors are fleeing. Paulson has been on the losing side of several notable trades over the past few years,...

Feeling disenchanted following the 2008 financial collapse, a large bulk of traders and investors moved their money out of managed funds and brokerages to self-directed investments. As that tide of money receded from money managers, Marc Chaikin, a trader, broker and analyst with over 30 years of...

What do Richard Perry's Perry Capital, John Paulson's Paulson & Co and Dan Och's Och-Ziff Capital Management hedge funds have in common? According to a Bloomberg report, they are all bleeding cash. As noted by Bloomberg, Perry Capital's assets under management now stands at $4 billion, down...

A tax loophole in which hedge-fund managers avoid paying taxes on performance fees packed offshore will cease to exist on December 31, 2017. According to Bloomberg, a proposed change to the tax loophole that hedge fund managers have been taking advantage of for years was actually proposed eight...

According to billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson, the recent sell-off in the stock market may be unjustified and "overreacting." The SPDR S&P 500 ETF Trust (NYSE: SPY) has lost more than 10 percent since the start of 2016. See Also: Icahn Rep, Paulson To Join AIG Board...

American International Group Inc (NYSE: AIG) shares are up slightly in Thursday's after hours session despite a down day amid new commentary from Carl Icahn. The activist investor said he and Icahn Capital have reached an agreement with AIG where one of the fund's analysts will join the...

John Paulson's hedge fund, Paulson & Co., entered into a few risky investments that didn't pay off, as noted by ZeroHedge, which resulted in heavy losses and many investors fleeing the fund. Paulson invested millions of dollars into Greece in hopes that the struggling economy would...

Shares of American International Group Inc (NYSE: AIG) were trading slightly lower by 0.30 percent Friday morning. The Wall Street Journal reported that the company's directors are discussing a potential spinoff or sale of certain divisions. Carl Icahn and John Paulson want to break...

This year has been the worst year for hedge fund shutdowns since 2008. More than 400 funds shut down in the first half of the year. Of the remaining funds, average 2015 returns are nearly flat. There’s no doubt about it: 2015 has been a rough year for hedge funds. New data from Bloomberg...

In July, ETFGI, a London-based ETF research firm, confirmed that total assets under management at the world's exchange-traded products, including ETFs and exchange traded notes (ETNs), eclipsed the assets held by hedge funds. “According to our analysis there was US$2.971 trillion...

Paulson & Co. Inc., the hedge fund managed by billionaire John Paulson, has been in news of late. In August, Merrill Lynch advised its clients to withdraw $80 million invested in Paulson's Advantage fund due to poor performance. However, Paulson's merger funds, which constitute a...