Paul Singer

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...

On Tuesday, hedge fund manager and philanthropist Paul Singer's Elliott Management Corporation filed its quarterly 13F with the SEC, which is a disclosure of the fund's assets as well as its stake in those companies. Comparing the filing to the fund's previous 13F shows an 122 percent...

Argentina’s Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay will attend and speak at an event organized by the Council of the Americas, in New York in late June. Finance Secretary Luis Caputo will also be at the Big Apple, but will tackle a different task, one that has been called a “mission of...

Major activist hedge funds have formed a lobbying group called Council for Investor Rights and Corporate Accountability (CIRCA) to promote shareholder activism across the country. The announcement comes as presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been voicing against activist...

Billionaire hedge fund manager Paul Singer bets big on gold due to global currency "debasing," but Goldman sees losses for the yellow metal, according to a report on Bloomberg. Bloomberg said gold for immediate delivery surged 16 percent in the first quarter, the biggest quarterly...

There has been a heated debate on Wall Street as to whether activist investors are beneficial to both shareholders and companies. Over the past few years, activist investing has taken off, with several big name players pushing for change at some of the world's largest companies. While some argue...

Shares of Yahoo! Inc. (NASDAQ: YHOO) traded up over 5 percent near $36.50 on Thursday following rumors that Paul Singer's Elliott Associates had started a position in the company. In an email to Benzinga, Singer said rumors of the Yahoo position were not true. Shares have since fallen on...

The fifth annual Delivering Alpha conference kicked off this morning in New York, and today’s conference lineup includes Pershing Square Capital Management’s Bill Ackman, Elliott Management’s Paul Singer, Trian Fund Management's Nelson Peltz and Icahn Enterprises LP (NASDAQ: IEP...

Mark Melin is the author of three books, including High Performance Managed Futures and The Chicago Board of Trade's Handbook of Futures and Options. Melin, a former adjunct instructor in managed futures at Northwestern University writes about hedge funds, alternatives investing and Wall...

Editor's note: This piece was originally published on March 27, 2013 This week, the Supreme Court is hearing two landmark cases on the issue of same-sex marriage that may change the current government definition of marriage as we know it. The heavy-hitters who have financed the battle to...