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Billionaire investor Ken Griffin's suite of hedge funds at Citadel eked out small gains in what proved a volatile month in August as markets grappled with an emerging growth scare.

Subscribe to enjoy similar stories.American courts are not supposed to be venues for performance art. If counter-parties in a lawsuit do not have adverse interests—say, because they answer to the same person—judges balk. So when Donald Trump sued his own administration seeking $10bn in damages, the judge had questions.

Harvard University terminated a librarian this month who ripped down a poster of Israeli hostages at a pro-Palestine rally, while Yale University’s law school placed a pro-Palestinian research scholar on leave over allegations that she has ties to a group subject to US sanctions. At Cornell University, a group called Students for Justice in Palestine faces suspension after disrupting a “Pathways for Peace” event on campus this week, and the University of California at Los Angeles —- rocked last year by anti-Zionist rallies and accusations of mistreatment of Jewish students — created a new initiative to combat antisemitism. Columbia University, the scene of some of the most dramatic protests against Israel last year, said the school will transform its approach to managing demonstrations.

Billionaire investor Ken Griffin's flagship hedge fund climbed in a volatile January, according to a person familiar with the returns.

Billionaire investor Ken Griffin's handful of hedge funds at Citadel all posted double-digit returns in 2024, led by its tactical trading strategy.

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Citadel CEO Ken Griffin issued a warning against the steep tariffs President-elect Donald Trump vowed to implement, saying crony capitalism could be a consequence.

Republican Party Ken Griffin expects that former US President Donald Trump is likely to win the upcoming US Presidential election on November 5, reported Fortune. In a panel discussion at Future Investment Initiative Summit in Saudi Arabia, he added that Donald Trump has successfully gained momentum in the recent polls and he is certainly leading up the prediction markets up to the US Presidential Election day. Fortune reported that Ken Griffin is positively known as a significant contributor in the committees of Republican political action who donates $100 million approximately during the cycle of every election. But lately he has also been seen to be refrained from directly supporting the campaign of Republican Presidential candidate Donald Trump as he focuses on the candidates who belong to the military and business backgrounds in the primary races. The US Presidential race remains competitive despite the rising popularity of Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump. Several polls coming from the sources like the New York Times/Siena College and Reuters/Ipsos show that there is a narrow lead held by US Vice President Kamala Harris over Donald Trump.

Bettina Anderson, who was seen mingling with the Trump family at a party in Jupiter, Florida. The event, captured in videos and photos shared by Jessica Reed Kraus, highlighted Anderson's close interactions with Don Jr. and his ex-wife, Vanessa. Notably absent from the gathering was Kimberly Guilfoyle, Don Jr.'s fiancée of four years, as per the reports of Daily Mail.

Ken Griffin, founder and CEO of Citadel, said he remains skeptical that artificial intelligence could soon make human jobs obsolete as he sees flaws in machine learning models applied in certain scenarios.

BlackRock Inc., Citadel Securities and other investors are backing an upstart Texas stock market, laying down a challenge to the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Inc. and signaling a potential boost for a state trying to grab more of the financial services industry. 

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Congressional Budget Office director Phillip Swagel analyzes where lawmakers stand to slow down debt growth.

Hedge fund Citadel is going all out on Miami. Having relocated some Citadel Securities staff to the Four Seasons Palm Beach during the pandemic, it's since poached the executive chef of the hotel to be its «global head of culinary» and has commissioned architects Foster + Partners to build a new«iconic tower» office space on a 2.5 acre waterfront plot at Brickell Bay as it moves its head office to Miami from Chicago.

Top hedge funds and private equity firms including Citadel, KKR & Co. and Blackstone Inc. are discussing ways to blunt penalties by the Securities and Exchange Commission stemming from their use of disappearing messaging apps.

Investing.com -- U.S. futures point to a lower start on Monday, with traders looking ahead to key economic data releases later in the week and a slate of corporate earnings. Warren Buffett moves to reassure investors over the resilience of Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE:BRKa) and remembers the conglomerate's late vice chairman Charlie Munger. Elsewhere, Ant Group reportedly offers a higher bid than Ken Griffin's market-making firm Citadel Securities for Credit Suisse's Chinese investment banking division.

Hedge-fund titans Steve Cohen, Izzy Englander and Ken Griffin are killing it. Their imitators are having trouble keeping up. The big three’s advantage comes from having pioneered what has become the hedge-fund industry’s hottest strategy over the past few years: Known as multimanager firms, they divvy up money across as many as hundreds of specialized investment teams with the aim of producing steadier returns that are uncorrelated to broader markets.

Billionaire investor Ken Griffin's flagship hedge fund rose last month as volatility made a return amid the debate about rate cuts, according to a person familiar with the returns.

The world's top hedge funds raked in record profits last year amid a resurgence in stock markets, new analysis showed.

Billionaire money managers Chris Hohn and Ken Griffin led hedge funds to deliver one of the best years for clients in 2023.