Falcone Shuts Down Fund Slowly

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Philip Falcone, mired in persistent losses and legal problems, is liquidating

Soft Lock-Up Fees Vary

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Managers’ need for long-term capital and investors’ aversion to

Oil Cool, Precious Metals Hot

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Barclays forecasts high but stable-to-slightly-lower oil prices in the next quarter, assuming the Iran nuclear stand-off does not get worse. The reversal of the rising price trend could mean losses

Man AHL Quants’ Challenge

It has been 25 years since Man Group’s futures trading program, AHL, started operating.

Why Is Blackstone Cheap?

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Blackstone Group is still trading well below its price in 2007, when it went public.

Succession Question as Icahn Raises Capital

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One gets the sense that Carl Icahn, aged 76, is not all that interested in retiring to the golf course.

GMO in Gold Club, Reason Differs

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The institutional manager Grantham Mayo Van Otterloo has a distinctive view on gold. Unlike most observers and gold buyers like John Paulson

Paulson Continues Gold Strategy

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In January John Paulson started to climb out of the deep pool of red ink he got into last year but in February he went the wrong way, in part because gold prices declined. Despite

Citadel Retains Collateral Status

Institutions use their fund investments as collateral for borrowing money. But