... David Einhorn was 18th in 2006. The annual "Wall Street Poker Night," benefiting Math for America , was started by billionaire James Simons , the founder of hedge-fund firm Renaissance Technologies. This April, the $5,000 buy-in...

In this article: Wall Street, Poker, Harvard University, and PokerStars.com

...Public Citizen, Rogers bundled more than $200,000 for Obama and contributed $28,500 to Democrat committees. Rogers ' ex-husband, John W. Rogers, Jr. , chief executive of multi-billion-dollar Ariel Capital Management , played basketball with...

In this article: Barack Obama, Hunter Biden, Delaware, Defendant, and Beau Biden

Last Updated: 12:35 AM, November 20, 2009 Posted: 12:35 AM, November 20, 2009 Eddie Lampert may care about sales figures, after all. The prickly hedge-fund tycoon -- who has cast himself as a retail maverick ever since he merged the...

In this article: Sears, Eddie Lampert, Kmart, Credit Suisse, and Wall Street

...as the retailer offered a series of early holiday season promotions to bring them back to its brands. The company led by hedge fund financier Edward Lampert has launched a major campaign to win over holiday shoppers - with measures like its...

In this article: Sears, Kmart, Sears Holdings Corp, Thomson Reuters, Revenue, Edward Lampert, Bankruptcy, Sears Canada, and Sears, Roebuck and Co

To leverage such clues, the source IP address would need to be mapped back to Kerviel as the owner. * Bridging user identities. As an IT manager Nick Leeson had direct access to backend servers. As a trader he had application accounts.

In this article: Jerome Kerviel, Nick Leeson, IP Address, Barings Bank, Derivative, Linux, IDC, and Societe Generale

...as its sales sagged further, despite efforts to drum up new business during the quarter, which ended Oct. 31. Led by financier Edward Lampert , the company has launched a major campaign to win over holiday shoppers - with measures like its...

In this article: Sears Holdings Corp., Sears, Kmart, Revenue, Edward Lampert, Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Fiscal year, Bankruptcy, Thomson Reuters, and Aylwin Lewis

* Lampert trims Citi while other fund managers stock up * Dissolves stakes in Home Depot , Fannie Mae , Hartford Hedge fund manager Edward Lampert cut his stakes in housing and financial stocks during the third quarter, possibly...

In this article: Edward Lampert, Citi, Financial crisis, Home Depot Inc, Fannie Mae, Sears, Capital One Financial Corp, Renaissance Technologies, and Genworth Financial Inc

...T-shirts with phrases like "I am Jerome 's girlfriend." These may see a surge in popularity now that Kerviel's fraud trial is set to resume next year in Paris after he lost an appeal Tuesday. If Musulin 's remaining $3.8 million does get him...

In this article: Jerome Kerviel, France, Asterix, Facebook, Lyon, Paris, Marianne, and Julius Caesar

...seeking educational and networking opportunities. The Conference agenda included a high profile line-up of keynote speakers including Nick Leeson , the rogue trader whose unchecked risk-taking caused the biggest financial scandal of the 20th...

In this article: London, Europe, Trademark, Serious Organised Crime Agency, FBI, Nick Leeson, Cloud computing, Security Division, and Barings Bank

...and clients, as well as $2 billion for himself. the moves put Paulson and his remarkable trade alongside Warren Buffet , George Soros , Bernard Baruch , and Jesse Livermore in Wall Street 's pantheon of traders. They also made him one of the...

In this article: John Paulson, Wall Street, Wart, Jesse Livermore, David Rockefeller Sr, George Soros, Tiger Woods, Warren Buffet, and Bernard Baruch

...Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an 'Iron Curtain' has descended across the Continent." [1947] 16 April White House confidante Bernard Baruch coins the term "Cold War". 5 June US Secretary of State George Marshall plans major...

In this article: Mikhail Gorbachev, US, Moscow, Soviet Union, and East Berlin

...resulting in losses of 4.9 billion euros. Jan 25 - French police carry out searches of the home of Kerviel and of SocGen's headquarters. Kerviel is taken into police custody the next day. Jan 30 - SocGen Chief Executive Daniel Bouton...

In this article: Jerome Kerviel, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole, and Nicolas Sarkozy

Never mind the bonuses - listen to the Leeson lesson Posted in Crime, 26th October 2009 09:02 GMT RSA Europe 2009 Nick Leeson , the rogue trader who bankrupted a bank before it became fashionable, said that unless the quality of...

In this article: Nick Leeson, Barings, Risk management, Derivative, Jerome Kerviel, Singapore, Cancer, Merrill Lynch, and Europe

...and steel. More than 90 per cent of tin stockpiles tracked by the bourse are now owned by one company. In 1998 a Japanese trader, Yasuo Hamanaka , was jailed after losing $US2.6 billion for Sumitomo Corporation after he hoarded copper.

In this article: Copper, London, Tin, Zinc, and Europe

Edward Arthur Seykota (born August 7, 1946) is a commodities trader , who earned BSc degrees in both Electrical Engineering and Management from MIT , both in 1969. In 1970 he pioneered Systems trading by using early punch card computers to...

In this article: Ed Seykota, Richard Donchian, Michael Marcus, Physics, MIT, Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, and IBM

...to get some insights, by way of verbatim interviews, into the thought processes and trading rules. Among thosed profiled in this book are Ed Seykota , Bruce Kovner , Paul Tudor Jones , Michael Steinhardt , Van K. Tharp and James B. Rogers.

In this article: Jack D. Schwager, Market Wizards, Ed Seykota, Van K. Tharp, Michael Steinhardt, Bruce Kovner, and The New Market Wizards

...commodities trader who, in less than 20 years, is reputed to have turned his initial $30,000 into $80 million. Marcus met his mentor Ed Seykota while working as an analyst and learned money management from him. Later while working. at...

In this article: Michael Marcus, Commodities Corporation, Bruce Kovner, Ed Seykota, Psychology, Surgery, Cancer, Prolotherapy, Low back pain, and Clark University

... GCI ), McClatchy ( NYSE : MNI ) and other newspaper publishers will be short lived, Ariel Investments CEO John Rogers Jr. is far more bullish. In fact, Rogers tells Bloomberg that he expects the newspapers to defy analysts' dour projections...

In this article: John Rogers Jr., Gannett, McClatchy, NYSE, Ripple6, Revenue, and Lee Enterprises