Money and Finance
- The Soul Of A Hedge Fund 'machine'
Link to: The Soul of a Hedge Fund 'Machine' The Bridgewater founder talks about how his firm measures employees and economies to steer its $160 billion in investments. How do you build the world's largest hedge fund? Bridgewater...
- Buffett Widens Lead In $1 Million Hedge Fund Bet
Link to: Buffett widens lead in $1 million hedge fund betFORTUNE -- Results are in for the sixth year of the competition sometimes called the $1 million bet, and Warren Buffett -- once a piteous straggler in this 10-year wager on stock market performance...
- Seth Klarman: The Oracle Of Boston
HEDGE-FUND bosses rarely double as cult authors. But an out-of-print book by Seth Klarman, the boss of the Baupost Group, sells for as much as $2,499 on Amazon. A scanned version of “Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful...
- In Punishing Year For Hedge Funds, Biggest One Thrived
Found via ValueWalk. The world’s biggest hedge fund is also one of the best performers. Bridgewater Associates, which manages nearly $120 billion, posted returns of 23 percent in 2011 — a year when the average hedge fund portfolio lost 5 percent....
- The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep The Bubble Going - By Jesse Eisinger And Jake Bernstein
In late 2005, the booming U.S. housing market seemed to be slowing. The Federal Reserve had begun raising interest rates. Subprime mortgage company shares were falling. Investors began to balk at buying complex mortgage securities. The housing bubble,...
Money and Finance
Hedge-Fund World's One-Man Wealth Machine
Link to article: Hedge-Fund World's One-Man Wealth Machine
David Abrams Built His Fortune Effectively Going It Alone
In the Back Bay neighborhood of Boston, one man is building a moneymaking machine that rivals some of the hedge-fund industry's biggest names.
Calls to his office go unreturned even from those eager to fork over eight-figure sums, potential investors say. One industry veteran referred to him as "a unicorn," as few people have ever seen him.
The hedge-fund manager, David Abrams, has personally become a billionaire, and earned billions more for his wealthy investors, over the past five years running what is effectively a one-man shop, according to company and investor documents reviewed by The Wall Street Journal and people who have worked with him. His firm, Abrams Capital Management LP, manages nearly $8 billion across three funds and is discussing raising money for a fourth fund that could help push its assets past $10 billion.
In an era of star investors who appear regularly on television and talk up their ideas at hyped confabs, Mr. Abrams, 53 years old, has never spoken at an event open to the public.
[H/T Corner of Berkshire & Fairfax…..where someone was also kind enough to post THIS transcript from the October 2008 Graham & Dodd Breakfast.]
- The Soul Of A Hedge Fund 'machine'
Link to: The Soul of a Hedge Fund 'Machine' The Bridgewater founder talks about how his firm measures employees and economies to steer its $160 billion in investments. How do you build the world's largest hedge fund? Bridgewater...
- Buffett Widens Lead In $1 Million Hedge Fund Bet
Link to: Buffett widens lead in $1 million hedge fund betFORTUNE -- Results are in for the sixth year of the competition sometimes called the $1 million bet, and Warren Buffett -- once a piteous straggler in this 10-year wager on stock market performance...
- Seth Klarman: The Oracle Of Boston
HEDGE-FUND bosses rarely double as cult authors. But an out-of-print book by Seth Klarman, the boss of the Baupost Group, sells for as much as $2,499 on Amazon. A scanned version of “Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful...
- In Punishing Year For Hedge Funds, Biggest One Thrived
Found via ValueWalk. The world’s biggest hedge fund is also one of the best performers. Bridgewater Associates, which manages nearly $120 billion, posted returns of 23 percent in 2011 — a year when the average hedge fund portfolio lost 5 percent....
- The Magnetar Trade: How One Hedge Fund Helped Keep The Bubble Going - By Jesse Eisinger And Jake Bernstein
In late 2005, the booming U.S. housing market seemed to be slowing. The Federal Reserve had begun raising interest rates. Subprime mortgage company shares were falling. Investors began to balk at buying complex mortgage securities. The housing bubble,...