Virtus to acquire Westchester Capital Management

Virtus Investment Partners, a multi-manager asset management business, has announced it plans to acquire Westchester Capital Management, an event-driven management [Read More]
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Tools being developed to monitor stock mentions and trading activity on social media

In order to avoid short squeezes, tools are being developed for fund managers and sophisticated investors that monitor stock mentions [Read More]
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Point72 raises $1.5B in a few days

After losing 10% in January and providing a $750 million cash infusion to Melvin Capital caught up in the GameStop [Read More]
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Sightings…

Robert Kaplan and Christopher Keenan, who had previously been at Permal and EnTrust, have joined Jackson Hole Capital Partners as [Read More]
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Performance Round-Up: Heavy January losses due to frenzied retail buying

Trading frenzy caused by individual retail traders targeting hedge funds’ heavily short stocks led to substantial losses in January for [Read More]
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