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Senior correspondent covering Wall Street @businessinsider. Hunted & reported on billionaires in a past life @Forbes. Alum of @columbiajourn and @UWMadison.

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I’m a reporter on Forbes’ wealth team, where I cover titans of industry from a variety of backgrounds. From lords of finance and casino magnates to proprietors of the fast-food chicken sandwich and the no-whip, non-fat, venti caramel machiatto, I’m keeping tabs on these movers and shakers and what they do with their fortunes. I’m a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, and I’ve worked at an assortment of news outlets, including the As…

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Who Got Rich This Week: Founders Of Global IT Company and 3-D Printing CEO

Who Got Rich This Week: Founders Of Global IT Company and 3-D Printing CEO

Each week at Forbes we scan our database of corporate insiders to see who got richer from the action in the s…

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Pharmaceuticals Developer John Kapoor Is New Billionaire

Pharmaceuticals Developer John Kapoor Is New Billionaire

He came from India to the United States in 1964 with big dreams and an entrepreneurial bug, and now John N. K…

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Carl Icahn's Bet On 'Grand Theft Auto V' Paying Off As Sales Top $1 Billion

Carl Icahn's Bet On 'Grand Theft Auto V' Paying Off As Sales Top $1 Billion

Like many of America's teens and twenty-somethings, legendary activist investor Carl Icahn has been anxiously…

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These hedge funds crushed it in April — and a key Liberation Day lesson helped them Original

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By Bradley Saacks Verified, Alex Morrell
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Claims of historic performance are often exaggerated on Wall Street. But April was one for the record books. The sharp rebound across global markets pushed stocks to all-time highs, with the S&P 500 rising more than 10% in April. Hedge Fund Research called it a "historic gain" for the industry, with the average fund up 4.8% — the second-best monthly return since 2009, behind only November 2020. And still there were funds that stood out for their eye-popping performance.
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Meet Steve Cohen's new executive committee as Point72 hits $50 billion Original

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By Alex Morrell
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Point72 Asset Management is forming a new executive committee to oversee the hedge fund's increasingly sprawling empire. Loading audio narration... Billionaire founder Steve Cohen — the chairman, CEO, and co-CIO of the firm — told staff in an internal memo Thursday that he will lead the new leadership group.
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$1.1 billion Paloma Partners is cutting staff, including its strategy and marketing execs, following a business revamp Original

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By Alex Morrell
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Paloma Partners is cutting nearly a dozen personnel, including its strategy and marketing execs, according to people familiar with the matter. Loading audio narration... The staff reductions follow a broad revamp of the multistrategy hedge fund, founded decades ago by Donald Sussman, which included a leadership overhaul, a technology and operations rebuild, and outsourcing processes to streamline the firm.
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