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John Paulson buying Citigroup shares: report

Reuters – Hedge fund manager John Paulson, who bet against financial companies after foreseeing the credit crisis, has been buying Citigroup Inc <C.N> shares over the past few weeks, the New York...

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Goldman Sachs’s Hedge Fund Report

Seeking Alpha – Here’s an excellent in-depth read from Goldman Sachs that ties directly into our tracking of hedge fund movements. And we say this because the majority of their data was taken from SEC...

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Hedge Funds Tough To Mimic on Financials

TheStreet.com – Hedge funds that drove financial shares into the ground a year ago are piling back into the stocks, but average investors ought to be careful about mimicking their moves. The first...

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CIT’s future in question ahead of lender meeting

Lexington Herald – CIT Group Inc.’s shares soared Tuesday on a report that hedge fund manager John Paulson is considering merging the troubled finance company with failed mortgage lender IndyMac...

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Hedge Fund Billionaire John Paulson puts his money on Citigroup

New York (HedgeCo.net) – According to a regulatory filing, Hedge Fund manager John Paulson’s of the $12.5 billion Paulson & Co. bought 300 million shares of Citigroup worth $1.45 billion. This move...

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UBS said to close feeder fund

(Reuters) – UBS shut down a feeder fund that provided wealthy clients access to billionaire investor John Paulson‘sAdvantage fund due to the high cost of operating that portfolio, two sources said last...

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Hedge Funds in Talks to Purchase Failed Mortgage Lender IndyMac

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Several hedge fund firms led by J.C. Flowers & Co., are closing in on a deal to purchase the assets of IndyMac, the failed mortgage lender, as of Sunday. The group of...

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Paulson Not on Board with Redemption Restrictions

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – John Paulson, head of hedge fund firm Paulson & Co., recently spoke his mind on the wave of redemption freezes that many managers have chosen to impose.  “We think it’s a...

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Pellegrini quits Paulson & Co to start fund

Interactive Investor – Paolo Pellegrini, who played a crucial role in helping to implement bets against subprime mortgages that netted Paulson & Co about $15 billion in 2007, resigned from the...

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Paulson’s Pellegrini Said to Resign to Start Own Hedge Fund

Bloomberg – Paolo Pellegrini, the hedge-fund manager who helped Paulson & Co. make more than $3 billion in 2007 on bets the U.S. housing bubble would burst, resigned to start his own fund, a person...

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HK Fund to team up with Paulson Hedge Fund in Offshore Launch

West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.net) – One of Hong Kong’s largest independent financial institutions, Sun Hung Kai Financial, is teaming up with hedge fund Paulson & Co, launching a distressed asset...

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Paulson nets £100m from RBS slide

Guardian Unlimited – Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson has made a £100m profit by betting that the Royal Bank of Scotland’s share price would fall dramatically, according to calculations by...

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Paulson Pockets Big Bucks on Short Sale

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Billionaire and hedge fund manager extraordinaire John Paulson has reportedly pocketed $139 million by betting against the Royal Bank of Scotland, further fueling cynicism that...

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John Paulson Defies Market and Posts Huge Gains

New York Times – While his counterparts at other big hedge funds are trying to figure out whether they can stay in business, the fund manager John Paulson continues to rack up enormous profits....

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Paulson Hedge Fund Asks Dow to Close Rohm & Haas Deal

Bloomberg – Paulson & Co., the hedge fund run by billionaire John Paulson, urged Dow Chemical Co. to slash its dividend, sell new stock and issue bonds to pay for the stalled $15.4 billion takeover...

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Paulson Likes Distressed Assets Amid Global Recession

Bloomberg – Distressed assets offer the best investment opportunities this year as the global recession deepens, billionaire hedge-fund manager John Paulson said. “The decline in the market has created...

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Hedge Fund Assets Plunged to $1.8 Trillion in 2008

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – Hedge fund assets, which were once estimated to reach almost $3 trillion, finished the year at around $1.8 trillion, according to research conducted by London-based HedgeFund...

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Hedge Fund, Private Equity Titans Crowd Billionaire List

FINalternatives – The richest hedge fund manager in the world, clocking in as the 29th richest person in the world, is George Soros, whose $11 billion fortune actually increased during the difficult...

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Paulson & Co Hedge Fund Files 13G on anglogold Ashanti

Seeking Alpha – While John Paulson’s position in AngloGold Ashanti (AU) is no secret, his hedge fund has just filed a 13G with the SEC with regard to the position. Paulson & Co has disclosed a...

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Hedge Fund Trends: Icahn Buys Casino, Paulson Likes Distressed Debt

We recently learned of two major hedge fund transactions that we thought were worth highlighting here on the blog. Firstly, John Paulson is at it yet again. The prominent hedge fund manager has been in...

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