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billionaire investor Paul Singer
Paul Elliott Singer (born August 22, 1944) is an American hedge fund manager, investor, philanthropist, and political activist. He is the founder and CEO of hedge fund Elliott Management Corporation, a political activist and activist investor, and (via his Paul E. Singer Foundation) a prominent New York based philanthropist. In 2014, Forbes rated Singer's net worth as $1.9 billion. In 2015, Singer was 327th on the Forbes 400 list of richest Americans, 1006th among the world's billionaires, 350th of American billionaires, and the 16th highest earning hedge fund manager. Singer's business practices have been described by detractors as having the characteristics of a vulture fund, a characterization which Singer rejects. Singer is active in Republican Party politics and is known for his support of gay rights.
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This is Money
April 23, 2018
Feared American vulture hedge fund Elliott has been ramping up its power over UK business after amassing an unrivalled war chest. The firm has been snapping up stakes in the companies behind some of the UK's best-known brands, demanding changes including break-ups, takeovers and restructuring.
MarketWatch
April 2, 2018
CommVault said Elliott, a hedge fund founded by billionaire investor Paul Singer, has nominated four people to join CommVault's board of directors. In a letter to CommVault's board, Elliott said it believes the company's current market value doesn't reflect its leadership in the data management softwareÃâà...
BZ Weekly
April 2, 2018
Commvault Systems Inc stake is new for [reportingPerson]. Date of activity: March 21, 2018. This shows Paul Singer's Elliott Associates's positive view for Commvault Systems Inc. The hedge fund is investor in the Finance sector. In the manager's last 13-F, we saw 25% of Paul Singer's Elliott Associates'sÃâà...
MarketWatch
April 2, 2018
CommVault said Elliott, a hedge fund founded by billionaire investor Paul Singer, has nominated four people to join CommVault's board of directors. In a letter to CommVault's board, Elliott said it believes the company's current market value doesn't reflect its leadership in the data management softwareÃâà...
Kitco News
March 29, 2018
Elliott, founded by Wall Street hedge fund pioneer Paul Singer, wants TIM to partially sell its fixed-line network, possibly through a listing, and has called for Vivendi's ... CHANGING DYNAMICS Activist investor Amber Capital, which looks for opportunities to improve corporate governance, has run 10 activistÃâà...
Dealbreaker
March 29, 2018
After all, what sort of investor doesn't like traveling to AGMs or filling out a new proxy card ever three or four days? Paul Singer's pretty clever, too, though, and he suspects that Telecom Italia shareholders don't want to have to elect a new board three times a month. So he's happy to just cut the company'sÃâà...
Seeking Alpha
March 27, 2018
Provident Financial (OTCPK:FPLPY, OTCPK:FPLPF) could be on the cusp of an activist battle with Paul Singer holding a 4.01% share in the company. Closing down the ... It was part of a succession of blow-ups for famous UK investor Neil Woodford, leaving him under pressure. In late November 2017, theirÃâà...
Travel Weekly
March 26, 2018
Hedge fund Elliott Associates, managed by billionaire Paul Singer, has taken a nearly 12% stake in Travelport, and documents filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission indicate major changes at the company -- including a sale -- could result. Activist investor Singer and his entities are known forÃâà...
Times of India
March 19, 2018
MUMBAI: The world's largest activist investor Elliott Management is circling the scandalhit Fortis Healthcare that is facing takeover bids. Hedge fund giant Paul Singer-led Elliot, which has caused several top management exits and selloffs through activist boardroom interventions, is mopping up FortisÃâà...
Institutional Investor
March 14, 2018
Narrowly behind Getson is Jaime Hobbeheydar — chief marketing officer of Paul Singer's Elliott Management — who's admired for many of the same ... Asked to name the best-connected people in the game, he singles out Getson for not just the volume of his investor relationships, but also their impact.
YourStory.com
March 14, 2018
Singer is known to be an activist investor who forced Cognizant, where he owns four percent, to streamline the board and pay back $3.4 billion to shareholders. Analysts add that this move triggered others in the IT services industry to go ahead with a share buyback. Infosys too announced a share buyback worth Rs 13,000Ãâà...
Hindustan Times
March 13, 2018
Saritha Rai Bloomberg. Employees walk past Wipro Ltd. signage as they enter the company's campus in Bangalore, India.(BVivek Prakash/BLOOMBERG). Billionaire Paul Singer's Elliott Management Corp. has bought a stake in Wipro Ltd., its first ever purchase of an Indian-based software outsourcer.
Romania-Insider.com
March 2, 2018
US hedge fund Elliott, controlled by billionaire investor Paul Singer, has reduced its stake in Romanian investment fund Fondul Proprietatea to under 10% following the fund's recent share buyback offer. Two investment vehicles controlled by Elliott, namely Manchester Securities Corp and Beresford EnergyÃâà...
The Times
March 1, 2018
An activist investor increased its position in Sky, a day after the broadcaster found itself at the centre of a takeover battle between Comcast and 21st Century Fox. ... Elliott is a hedge fund founded by Paul Singer, the billionaire financier, and is renowned for pushing for change at the companies it invests in.
Interesting Engineering
February 22, 2018
The fund, founded by billionaire Paul Singer in 1977, dedicated three pages to describing its negative view of cryptocurrencies in a quarterly letter to clients, the Business Insider reported. In the letter, Elliott Management claimed that people “encountering cryptocurrency have switched from sense of WTHITÃâà...
The Times
February 21, 2018
Elliott Capital Advisors, a subsidiary of the New York-based hedge fund Elliott Management, founded by the billionaire Paul Singer, revealed the stake in a regulatory filing today, but gave no further details. The disclosure coincided with an announcement from Fidessa that it had agreed to a Ãâã1.4 billionÃâà...
Business Insider
February 20, 2018
Elliott Management, a $34 billion hedge fund founded by billionaire Paul Singer, is once again beating the drum about an impending market crash. In a January letter to clients seen by Business Insider, Elliott dedicated a little more than two pages to its thesis, starting the section by saying: "We like the wordÃâà...
GuruFocus.com
February 20, 2018
Elliott Management leader Paul Singer (Trades, Portfolio) released his portfolio for the final quarter of 2017 last week, listing eight new holdings. The well-known activist investor typically takes large stakes in underperforming companies and then pushes management to implement changes that will turnÃâà...
Benzinga
February 20, 2018
Billionaire investor Paul Singer thinks that "FOMO" has now trumped "WTHIT" — two acronyms he's used to describe the cryptocurrency market. What You Need To Know. In a letter obtained by Business Insider, Singer, the founder of the $34-billion hedge fund Elliott Management, told his clients thatÃâà...
Business Insider
February 19, 2018
Elliott Management, a $34 billion hedge fund founded by the billionaire Paul Singer, has an abbreviation to describe the folly surrounding cryptocurrencies: WTHIT. "FOMO (fear of missing out) has solidly trumped WTHIT (what the hell is this??)," Elliott told clients in a January 26 letter seen by BusinessÃâà...
This is Money
February 7, 2018
Billionaire Paul Singer's ruthless hedge fund has increased its stake in Sky as the future of the broadcaster's news channel hangs in the balance. The move by Elliott Capital Advisors comes little over a week after it emerged its 1.1 per cent stake has increased to 1.86 per cent, according to regulatory filings.
Institutional Investor
December 31, 1999
More than 20 years ago, Paul Singer, who ran what was then a little-known New York–based hedge fund, stunned a federal courtroom with his brash admission. Read Part 1 of the ... Multibillion-dollar hedge funds run by billionaires know they do not make for sympathetic plaintiffs. Yet seldom have theirÃâà...
Livemint
December 31, 1999
The world's largest activist investor Elliott Management is circling the scandal hit Fortis Healthcare that is facing takeover bids. Hedge fund giant Paul Singer-led Elliot, which has caused several top management exits and selloffs through activist boardroom interventions, is mopping up Fortis shares in a rareÃâà...
Dothan Eagle
December 31, 1999
A spokesman for New York-based Apollo declined to comment. Representatives for Claire's and the creditors declined to comment or didn't respond to messages. New York-based Monarch specializes in distressed companies, while Elliott Capital is run by Paul Singer, the billionaire and activist investor.
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