Hedge funds
US hedge fund billionaire sells Netflix stake at huge loss
Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square fund dumps 7% stake for $400m loss after streaming service’s value plunges
Kalyeena Makortoff
21, Apr, 2022 @8:14 AM
Sir Chris Hohn urges shareholders to vote against ‘greenwashing’ bank directors
Call comes as thinktank says the world’s 30 largest financial institutions are undermining their net zero targets
Helena Horton Environment reporter
25, Mar, 2022 @6:00 AM
‘Milestone year’: in its 150th year, the Co-op Bank can see a brighter future
Back in profit for the first time in a decade and its scandals behind it, its eyes are turning to a merger or flotation
Kalyeena Makortoff Banking correspondent
24, Feb, 2022 @7:20 PM
Extinction Rebellion donor leads world’s top-performing hedge fund
Chris Hohn’s TCI fund, known as one of the most aggressive activist investors, made a 23% gain in 2021
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent
17, Jan, 2022 @1:58 PM
Billionaire Tory donor receives £56m from hedge fund, accounts suggest
Filings for Brevan Howard Asset Management show allocation to highest-paid member – likely to be fund’s co-founder Alan Howard
Rob Davies and Jasper Jolly
11, Jan, 2022 @7:00 PM
Taylor Wimpey shores up defences against US activist investor
Third-largest British housebuilder targeted as Elliott Advisors salivates over the UK homes sector
Julia Kollewe
08, Jan, 2022 @4:00 PM
Billionaire Tory donor knighted in new year honours list
Boris Johnson accused of ‘wrong priorities’ after David Winton Harding given award for services to philanthropy
Rowena Mason Deputy political editor
31, Dec, 2021 @10:30 PM
Activist hedge fund furious after ‘juvenile’ attack by activist investors
Fund pushing for breakup of Shell scathing about ‘underhand’ methods that led to resignation of its London-based chair
Jasper Jolly
23, Dec, 2021 @4:33 PM
This tax loophole costs $180bn a decade. Why won’t Democrats close it? | Robert Reich
The sole reason the ‘carried interest’ loophole survives is fierce lobbying by the private equity industry
Robert Reich
14, Dec, 2021 @11:10 AM
New York billionaire seeks permission for ‘temple for a titan’
Investor Bill Ackman is trying to win approval for a controversial penthouse overlooking Central Park
Rupert Neate Wealth correspondent
15, Nov, 2021 @5:20 PM
Walmsley needs a fast-acting remedy for GSK’s malaise
With just a few years to turn the group around, the boss could do without a bellicose hedge fund breathing down her neck
Julia Kollewe
23, Oct, 2021 @11:05 PM
Second hedge fund pushes for change in leadership of GSK
Bluebell Capital takes stake in pharma giant and puts pressure on Emma Walmsley
Julia Kollewe
22, Sep, 2021 @5:52 PM
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