Falcone Forced to Sell Harbinger Cheap
Chidem Kurdas In the past week or two the holder of an option to buy shares of Harbinger Group Inc., the NYSE-listed holding company largely owned by funds managed by Philip Falcone, made a quick...
View ArticleFalcone Harbinger Deal Below Market Price
Chidem Kurdas Funds controlled by Philip Falcone sold some seven million shares of NYSE-listed holding company Harbinger Group at $11 a share on Monday. This is below the current market quote around...
View ArticleEuropean Bank Distress Requires Investor Patience
Chidem Kurdas Much touted for several years, the trade on European distressed finance looked like a rare opportunity. Buy the drastically under-priced debt of troubled yet inherently valuable European...
View ArticleFalcone Retains Harbinger Group Stake
Chidem Kurdas After agreeing to step down as chief officer and chairman of New York Stock Exchange-listed Harbinger Group (HRG), Philip Falcone and hedge funds he manages still own nearly 38 million...
View ArticleMass Affluent PE: Will It Succeed?
Chidem Kurdas Our retirement investing is still a new world. Our grandparents received defined benefit pensions, which were paid out of big pools allocated in large chunks to diverse categories of...
View ArticleTrends Come Back to Surprise Investors
Chidem Kurdas It’s a common pattern. No sooner than a view solidifies into conventional wisdom, it turns out to be wrong. So it was with 2014’s top hedge fund strategy. This is a strategy where the...
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