#Israel Englander’s hedge fund earned .8 billion last year

#Israel Englander’s hedge fund earned $3.8 billion last year

“#Israel Englander’s hedge fund earned $3.8 billion last year” Millennium Management’s Israel Englander earned $3.8 billion last year, landing him the biggest payday of any hedge fund manager in 2020, according to Institutional Investor. Englander more than doubled his $1.5 billion payday in 2019 and made $2 billion more than the previous year’s rich-list leaders…

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#Ken Griffin blasts ‘insane conspiracy theory’ that he helped tank ‘Reddit Rally’

#Ken Griffin blasts ‘insane conspiracy theory’ that he helped tank ‘Reddit Rally’

“#Ken Griffin blasts ‘insane conspiracy theory’ that he helped tank ‘Reddit Rally’” Ken Griffin brushed off accusations that his massive hedge fund Citadel Investments had a hand in spoiling the “Reddit Rally,” calling it an “insane conspiracy theory.” Fresh off his Thursday testimony on Capitol Hill on last month’s surprise surge in shares of GameStop…

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#Melvin Capital’s Gabe Plotkin was target of anti-Semitism

#Melvin Capital’s Gabe Plotkin was target of anti-Semitism

“#Melvin Capital’s Gabe Plotkin was target of anti-Semitism” The head of the hedge fund at the center of last month’s GameStop frenzy says Redditors targeted him with anti-Semitic insults and text messages. Melvin Capital founder Gabe Plotkin made the disturbing claim in prepared testimony he plans to deliver at Thursday’s House Financial Services Committee hearing…

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#The top 15 hedge fund managers made B in 2020

#The top 15 hedge fund managers made $23B in 2020

“#The top 15 hedge fund managers made $23B in 2020” The year 2020 was one to forget, unless you were a billionaire hedge fund manager. In the midst of record unemployment, spiraling coronavirus deaths and widespread social and political unrest, the top 15 hedge fund managers added a whopping $23.2 billion to their already extensive…

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#New Robinhood regulations would stiff ‘little guy’

#New Robinhood regulations would stiff ‘little guy’

“#New Robinhood regulations would stiff ‘little guy’” The GameStop-Robinhood stock-trading frenzy could take another bizarre turn thanks largely to some legislative “solutions” being weighed, allegedly to protect small investors.  But if any of this stuff makes it into law, it will be the “little guy” who gets screwed, and this time for real. The end…

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#Alex Rodriguez-backed SPAC looks to raise about 0M in IPO

#Alex Rodriguez-backed SPAC looks to raise about $500M in IPO

“#Alex Rodriguez-backed SPAC looks to raise about $500M in IPO” A blank-check firm backed by former New York Yankees slugger Alex Rodriguez and hedge fund Antara Capital is aiming to raise about $500 million in its initial public offering, a regulatory filing showed Thursday. Slam Corp., a special purpose acquisition company, said it would sell…

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