Jabre Bought Japanese Shares After Quake, but Bailed Too Soon, Missing Rebound By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Few investors have made as many mistakes navigating markets over the past two weeks as Philippe Jabre. Mr. Jabre, one of Europe’s best-known hedge-fund managers, bought Japanese stocks on news of the earthquake, and then suffered when the Nikkei Stock [...]
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Trader Racks Up a Second Epic Gain
$5 Billion Profit for John Paulson By GREGORY ZUCKERMAN Hedge-fund manager John Paulson personally netted more than $5 billion in profits in 2010—likely the largest one-year haul in investing history, trumping the nearly $4 billion he made with his “short” bets against subprime mortgages in 2007. Mr. Paulson’s take, described by investors and people close [...]
Paulson Hits Hurdles in Gold Fund
The Wall Street Journal FEBRUARY 18, 2010 by Gregory Zuckerman It took John Paulson months to convince investors that housing would crumble. Now it’s taking him awhile to get them excited about gold, his latest passion. When Mr. Paulson’s Paulson & Co. late last year announced it was starting a hedge fund to make a [...]
