Ray Dalio has overtaken George Soros as the world’s most successful hedge fund manager after his Bridgewater Pure Alpha fund made $13.8bn for investors last year. The profits made by the Connecticut-based Pure Alpha – already the world’s biggest hedge fund, with $72bn under management using its trading strategy – beat its own record [...]
Sonia Jones, lithe blonde wife of hedge-fund billionaire Paul Tudor Jones, has partnered with the family of the late Ashtanga-yoga master Krishna Pattabhi Jois to launch a chain of yoga studios and boutiques. That’s got many of Jois’s devotees in a distinctly un-yogic twist. ight off Greenwich Avenue in Greenwich, Connecticut, there’s an old, dilapidated [...]
Rumors of a sex tape featuring the 40-year-old wife of California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer and the man alleged to have beaten her in a Newark, Calif. hotel on Feb. 3 have been made public. Nadia Lockyer first made headlines this month when she admitted to an affair with Stephan Chikhani, a 35-year-old San Jose [...]
Joe Francis has scored a victory against the likes of Madonna without ever having to set foot in a courtroom … because she has changed the title of her new song “Girls Gone Wild” … as well as its lyrics. You may recall … just before the Super Bowl, Joe and his lawyer David Houston [...]
The best place to cheat on your spouse is nation’s capital. Notorious adultery dating website Ashley Madison recently released information on the U.S. cities with the most members per capita, and Washington D.C. tops the list. The website says it has around 13 million members in 17 countries around the world; and that membership spiked [...]
A mood of fear and nervousness hung over Japan’s hedge fund industry on Monday as regulators widened an investigation into the suspected disappearance of more than $2 billion in corporate pension funds managed by Tokyo-based AIJ Investment Advisors Co. Hedge fund industry sources said they feared the scandal could drive Japan’s pension funds away from [...]
An Independent designer named Frederico Ciccarese has put together some beautiful iPhone 5 concept drawings. The Launch of I Phone 5 will likely take place June 10th-15th. Apple’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference, held in June each year. It’s an event where Apple showcases the latest and greatest of its technology for developer use.
That got us wondering who would do such a thing, so we’ve compiled a list of 20 ex-Wall Streeters who left the high-flying world of finance for high-tech startups. AP Wall Street Job(s): Bankers Trust (vice president), D.E. Shaw (computer science) Tech Job: Founder, president and CEO of online retail giant Amazon.com, which he [...]
The plot would have been too exotic for The West Wing, the relations in the Prime Minister’s inner circle more fractious than those portrayed in Borgen. But the real-life drama that has unfolded in Benjamin Netanyahu’s office in the last fortnight would certainly make a riveting television series, even if some of its twists and [...]
The Love Gov is climbing back into bed — with lawmakers. For the first time since a tawdry hooker scandal trashed his political career, Eliot Spitzer is holding a fund-raiser for a politician looking to make a national splash. The former governor is hosting the event at his Fifth Avenue home for Washington state gubernatorial [...]
Ponzi schemer Scott Rothstein lured supposedly smart money out of New York hedge funds. Why did they continue doing business with him? Scott Rothstein was a special kind of Ponzi schemer. Unlike Bernie Madoff or Allen Stanford, who mostly hurt individual investors, the 49-year-old Rothstein sucked in a billion dollars from sophisticated investors—including New York [...]
Sexpresso: Wives ban their husbands from visiting Italian cafe where busty barmaid serves up drinks in skimpy outfits Bagnolo’s mayor has banned her husband from going to the bar ‘I have upset the women but that’s not my problem,’ says Laura Maggi Attracted so many customers that the mayor is now considering an emergency bylaw [...]
Rielle Hunter, The videotape that purports to show former North Carolina Sen. And presidential candidate John Edwards and his mistress, Rielle Hunter, engaging in sexual behavior is going to be destroyed. Hunter and Andrew and Cheri Young reached a settlement Thursday afternoon in the lawsuit that Hunter filed against the Youngs just over two years [...]
Users of a chat service linked to the heavily-trafficked YouPorn website have had their personal information compromised after a third-party service provider failed to secure its data, YouPorn’s owners said Wednesday. Luxembourg-based Manwin Holding SARL said the chat site had been disabled and would remain offline until an investigation was carried out. Manwin spokeswoman Kate [...]
Ireland is perhaps best known for her supermodel status, landing a feature for 13 consecutive years in Sports Illustrated annual Swimsuit Issue, on newsstands today. To this day, it remains the most profitable single edition of any magazine in the world, transforming bikini-clad models into sexy cash cows for Sports Illustrated. So maybe it’s not [...]
Here’s a fact omitted from the four-hour “documentary” (I put quotation marks around the word because normally that word is used when there is accuracy, but that is not the case here): Over the eight years of the Clinton presidency, and eight independent counsels, who collectively spent more than $116 million investigating President and Mrs. [...]
A former District of Columbia police commander whose unit escorted actor Charlie Sheen has said he plans to file a lawsuit, alleging he was demoted because he said such escorts were common. You can read more about that from Reuters meanwhile check out some of Sheenious’s best quotes here : • “It’s a war. [...]
The youngest son of Princess Caroline of Monaco is said to have partied with friends including Stavros Niarchos III, the shipping heir and ex-boyfriend of celebrity Paris Hilton, and the model Jessica Hart before the melee broke out. Prince Pierre Casiraghi suffered cuts to his face in the late-night bust-up in the Double Seven bar [...]
The former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Dominique Strauss Kahn spend the night in a cell of Lille , in northern France, where he was asked Wednesday for his alleged relationship with a network of pandering and one count of misappropriation of funds. It will be the second time that Strauss-Kahn, 62, asleep [...]
Moore Capital Management LLC, the New York firm founded by Louis Moore Bacon, invested $800 million in a hedge fund begun last year by two of its former traders, according to two people with knowledge of the matter. Investment allowed Stone Milliner Asset Management AG founders Jens-Peter Stein and Kornelius Klobucar to start trading last [...]
