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Amaranth Advisors LLC was an American multi-strategy hedge fund founded by Nicholas M. Maounis and headquartered in Greenwich, Connecticut. At its peak, the firm had up to $9.2 billion in assets under management before collapsing in September 2006, after losing in excess of $6 billion on natural gas futures.
Omidyar Network is a self-styled "philanthropic investment firm," composed of a foundation and an impact investment firm. Established in 2004 by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife Pam, Omidyar Network has committed over US$1.5 billion to nonprofit organizations and for-profit companies across multiple investment areas.
Number of employees. 260 [1] Website. www .magnetar .com. Magnetar Capital is a hedge fund based in Evanston, Illinois. The firm was founded in 2005 and invests in fixed-income, energy, quantitative, and event-driven strategies. [1] The firm was actively involved in the collateralized debt obligation (CDO) market during the 2006–2007 period.
Third Point is a New York-based hedge fund founded by Daniel S. Loeb in 1995. The firm operates as an employee-owned and SEC-registered investment advisor. Third Point primarily invests in public equity, fixed income, and ADR markets globally and deploys an investment strategy that capitalizes on companies “undergoing events such as spinoffs or bankruptcies and pushes for corporate change".
Fortress Investment Group LLC was founded as a private equity firm in 1998 by Wesley R. Edens, a former partner at BlackRock; Rob Kauffman, a managing director at UBS; and Randal A. Nardone, also a managing director at UBS. [4] Based in New York City, [5] Fortress quickly expanded into hedge funds, real estate-related investments and debt ...
JANA Partners LLC (JANA or JANA Partners) is an investment manager specializing in event-driven investing. It was founded in 2001 by Barry Rosenstein . [2] JANA engages in traditional shareholder activism and socially responsible investing .
Acumen (formerly known as Acumen Fund, legally Acumen Fund, Inc.) [1] is a nonprofit impact investment fund based in the U.S. that focuses on investing in social enterprises that serve low-income individuals. [2] [3] Acumen was founded in April 2001 by Jacqueline Novogratz. It aims to demonstrate that small amounts of philanthropic capital ...
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