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25 Interesting Facts About Forbes' 25 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers
Tuesday, March 28, 2017 - 4:17pm | 1379Read More...Forbes was out with its compilation of the 25 highest-earnings hedge fund managers and traders. In the same vein, Benzinga is presenting readers with interesting facts about the 25 successful hedge fund managers/traders. 1. James Simons Of Renaissance Technologies Corp. The flagship fund of...
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Investors Need To 'Get Used' To Hedge Fund Bosses Making Too Much
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 - 1:38pm | 274Read More...Bloombeg's Noah Smith offered a unique look into how hedge funds really operate — and how their bosses take home hundreds of millions of dollars, if not billions of dollars. One striking example includes Michael Platt, founder of BlueCrest Capital Management, who took home $260 million in...
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BlueCrest's Michael Platt: Draghi's Plan to Buy Bonds Just Buying Time
Thursday, October 25, 2012 - 8:46am | 1406Read More...Michael Platt, founder of BlueCrest Capital Management, told Bloomberg Television's Stephanie Ruhle on "Market Makers" yesterday that "Europe has no credible plan for growth" and Draghi's plan to buy government bonds is a revised version of ESM and a way to buy time. Platt also said that the euro...
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Pain Ahead: 3 Predictions For 2012
Friday, December 23, 2011 - 4:51pm | 778Read More...Europe Will Experience Hard Defaults - While the market is not currently anticipating hard defaults in the Eurozone, some of the world's top investors are predicting just that outcome. Specifically, Greece will default in the early part of the year and this could set off a "cluster" of sovereign...
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BlueCrest's Michael Platt: European Banks are "Insolvent" Amid Crisis
Thursday, December 15, 2011 - 6:07pm | 1692Read More...Michael Platt, founder of the $30 billion hedge fund BlueCrest Capital, spoke to Bloomberg Television's Erik Schatzker and Stephanie Ruhle in his first-ever live TV interview. Platt said that most of the banks in Europe are insolvent and the situation in the region is "completely unstable." On...
