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BEVERLY HILLS, CALIFORNIA – MAY 6: Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of the hedge fund Citadel LLC, speaks at the Milken Institute’s Global Conference at the Beverly Hilton Hotel, on May 6, 2024 in Beverly Hills, California. The 27th annual global conference explores various topics, from the rise of generative AI to electric vehicle trends, and features participants Elon Musk, retired soccer star David Beckham and actor Ashton Kutcher. (Photo by Apu Gomes/Getty Images)

Ken Griffin says he’s ‘very anxious’ about Trump’s tariff policy

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Steve Cohen, who owns the Mets, is seen at an opening game decked out in gear including a baseball cap and vest. He is looking toward the camera wearing glasses.

Steve Cohen steps away from trading floor after more than 3 decades

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Crispin Odey, founding partner of Odey Asset Management LLP, outside Hendon Magistrates’ Court during a break in proceedings in London, U.K., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Famously bearish hedge fund manager and prominent Brexit supporter Odey will fight a criminal charge of indecent assault stemming from an incident during the summer of 1998. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Behind hedge fund giant Crispin Odey’s stunning one-week downfall from sexual abuse allegations

By Nishant Kumar, Shelley Robinson, and others

Crispin Odey, founding partner of Odey Asset Management LLP, outside Hendon Magistrates’ Court during a break in proceedings in London, U.K., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Famously bearish hedge fund manager and prominent Brexit supporter Odey will fight a criminal charge of indecent assault stemming from an incident during the summer of 1998. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Hedge fund giant Crispin Odey kicked out of his own firm after bombshell allegations of decades of sexual assault

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Crispin Odey, founding partner of Odey Asset Management LLP, outside Hendon Magistrates’ Court during a break in proceedings in London, U.K., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Famously bearish hedge fund manager and prominent Brexit supporter Odey will fight a criminal charge of indecent assault stemming from an incident during the summer of 1998. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Morgan Stanley is cutting ties with hedge fund manager Crispin Odey after a bombshell reports full of new sexual assault allegations

By Nishant Kumar and Bloomberg

Ken Griffin, chief executive officer and founder of Citadel

How Ken Griffin’s Citadel beat the rest of the hedge fund industry and soared to a $16 billion return in 2022

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Crispin Odey, founding partner of Odey Asset Management LLP, gestures outside Hendon Magistrates’ Court during a break in proceedings in London, U.K., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Famously bearish hedge fund manager and prominent Brexit supporter Odey will fight a criminal charge of indecent assault stemming from an incident during the summer of 1998. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Brexiteer hedge funder whose main fund is up 193% on bets against the U.K. economy is closing it to new investors because it has too much money

By Loukia Gyftopoulou, Nishant Kumar, and others

Crispin Odey, founding partner of Odey Asset Management LLP, gestures outside Hendon Magistrates’ Court during a break in proceedings in London, U.K., on Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. Famously bearish hedge fund manager and prominent Brexit supporter Odey will fight a criminal charge of indecent assault stemming from an incident during the summer of 1998. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The pound is ‘vulnerable’ and has further to fall, says Brexiteer hedge fund titan who’s up 140% this year shorting U.K. bonds

By Nishant Kumar and Bloomberg

Toronto , Canada – 23 June 2022; Anthony Scaramucci, Skybridge on Q&A Stage during day three of Collision 2022 at Enercare Centre in Toronto, Canada. (Photo By Eóin Noonan/Sportsfile for Collision via Getty Images)

Crypto winter comes for Scaramucci as Skybridge Capital suspends redemptions in one of its funds

By Katherine Burton, Nishant Kumar, and others

Dawn Fitzpatrick, chief investment officer of Soros Fund Management LLC, speaks during the Milken Institute Global Conference in Beverly Hills, California, U.S., on Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The conference brings together leaders in business, government, technology, philanthropy, academia, and the media to discuss actionable and collaborative solutions to some of the most important questions of our time. Photographer: Patrick T. Fallon/Bloomberg via Getty Images

Beijing’s crackdown is scaring major funds away from putting ‘money into China right now’

By Nishant Kumar, Hema Parmar, and others

LONDON, ENGLAND – MAY 11: Taylor Swift poses backstage with the award for Global Icon during The BRIT Awards 2021 at The O2 Arena on May 11, 2021 in London, England. (Photo by Dave J Hogan/Getty Images)

Arts & Entertainment

With regulators swirling and investors rebelling, Bill Ackman rethinks plans for Universal Music

By Thomas Seal, Nishant Kumar, and others

CNBC EVENTS — Delivering Alpha 2014 — Pictured: CNBC’s Kelly Evans moderates the Global Stage panel with Paul Marshall, Chief Investment Officer and Chairman, Marshall Wace LLP at the CNBC Institutional Investor Delivering Alpha Conference in New York — (Photo by: Heidi Gutman/CNBC/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Images)

The SPAC frenzy ‘leave many casualties,’ hedge fund giant warns

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A medical worker stands at the entrance to the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE)in late May, 2020 in New York City. The wild market swings this Spring have sunk some big name investment pros, including storied hedge funds. Wire photography: Spencer Platt—Getty Images

Wild stock markets swings have exposed a fatal flaw in this classic hedge fund strategy

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Investors are confident the stock market will keep rising this year

Hedge Funds On Pace to Badly Underperform the Markets in 2019

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