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John Alfred Paulson (born December 14, 1955) is an American hedge fund manager. He is the founder and President of Paulson & Co., a New York-based hedge fund.
Read More at Wikipedia ›Big gun investors John Paulson, Steve Cohen, Anton Schutz and Eddie Lampert all made surprising investment moves this past quarter that investors may want to take note of, according to Wall Street research shop SNL Financial.
While hedge fund manager Paulson ditched financials, we already told you that George Soros is buying them (see Emac's Bottom Line, "Soros Dumps Google and Apple, Buys Banks" )Add Anton Schutz's Mendon Capital to the bulls on the banks, as his shop doubled its JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) stake in the first quarter. SNL has more detail you won't want to miss:PAULSON CUTS BACK ON U.S. FINANCIALSClosely watched John Paulson is the hedge fund manager famous for making smart bets against the U.S. subprime mortgages in 2007. He's hit a rocky patch, with some of his funds dropping by a third to a half, notably due to investments in gold, which have sunk into the red.And now his fund, Paulson & Co., has taken a big scissor to holdings of U.S.-based financial services stocks in the ...Paulson & Co., led by hedge fund manager John Paulson , said Wednesday that while it is pleased with Hartford Financial Services Group taking steps to divest non-cor...
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FBN's Charlie Gasparino on the NYTimes op-ed by former Goldman Sachs employee.
Assets managed by U.S. hedge funds with $1 billion or more rose by 3% last year to $1.34 trillion, in the most tepid asset growth on record, tempered by disappointin...
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Prominent hedge fund manager John Paulson reported no longer holding common shares of Citigroup (C), Bank of America (BAC) and Regions Financial Corp. (RF), apparent...
Hedge fund billionaire John Paulson sold off his shares of Bank of America Corp. and Citigroup Inc. , according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing late T...
Well, one big gun is loving the banks and disliking tech stalwarts like Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) and Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) right now, possibly because on a share-to-book v...
John Paulson, the well-known hedge fund investor, late Wednesday recommended owning the shares of Caesars Entertainment Corp. , AngloGold Ashanti Ltd. ADS and CVR En...
At the end of 2011, gold prices finished almost 20 percent below their all-time nominal highs made in September. European concerns and liquidation actions sent inves...
FBN's Liz MacDonald on whether billionaire investor George Soros is making the right bet on gold.
How concerned is Wall Street about the ongoing insider-trading crackdown?Judging from the attendance last night for an event at the Harvard Club in midtown Manhattan...
Fears of a resurgence in the euro zone debt crisis boosted demand for safe-haven German bonds on Wednesday, while the Bank of England and a European Central Bank off...
TAKING THE PULSE: The mild winter was kind to U.S. property-casualty insurers in the first quarter, giving the sector a respite after a long string of natural catast...
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