Is it a "barbarous relic?" Gold is hotter than ever. You can’t turn on the TV these days without seeing a gold commercial. Several well known hedge fund managers have leveraged up positions in gold while John Paulson even went so far ...
<div><p> New York in the mid-1990s: my long-time investing partner Richard Atkinson and I were in the city seeking out people with whom we might coinvest. We had run our own fund -- reputed to be the first hedge fund in London ...
<div id="subtitle">Despite brutal 2008, top hedge fund managers still bring home billion-dollar paydays</div><div><p>Hedge funds, on average, had their worst year ever in 2008. But not all of them lost money. Some earned billions for their for their managers. Here are the five ...
<div><h1> THE HUNT FOR INDYMAC </h1><p>Hedge fund operator John Paulson made a fortune on his early bet that the market for subprime and other exotic mortgages would collapse. Now he's looking to make another one by reviving one of the biggest underwriters ...
<div><h1> INDYMAC'S NEW OWNERS </h1><p>It's a star-studded lineup: hedge fund heavy-hitters George Soros and John Paulson, plus computer king Michael Dell. They're on the team of investors who agreed on Jan. 2 to buy failed IndyMac bank from the feds. The buyers ...
<div><h1> LAST FINANCIERS STANDING </h1><p>Last year was that rare wrinkle in history when everything that could go wrong did go wrong. Stocks and real estate imploded. Bank failures abounded. Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and AIG became wards of the state, while the ...
<div><p>America's top hedge fund managers staunchly defended the conduct of their secretive, high-risk industry today and warned congressional lawmakers that knee-jerk regulation could push financial jobs across the Atlantic to London.</p><p>In a rare day of public scrutiny, the billionaire bosses of five ...
<div><p>Time is running out for the New York Sun, the bastion of conservatism on the Big Apple's media scene which was co-founded by the crooked peer <a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/conradblack">Conrad Black</a> in 2002.</p><p>In <a ...
<div><p>The billionaire John Paulson was revealed yesterday as one of the hedge fund bosses who has been short-selling UK bank shares - placing a near &pound;1bn bet that their share prices would fall dramatically. </p><p>His New York-based Paulson & Co was last ...
<div><p>Born in the lower middle-class New York borough of Queens, John Paulson is the biggest-earning man in the world's top-earning industry. He took home $3.7bn (about &pound;2bn) last year, putting him top of Alpha magazine's ranking of hedge fund managers. </p><p>He made ...
