from Palm Beach Post Land in Palm Beach may indeed be the ultimate luxury, if the oceanfront house approved by the town last week for billionaire owner Ken Griffin is any indication. On Billionaires Row, the low-profile, one-story residence will stretch 105 feet longer than a football field. But it and several outbuildings will...Read More
By Nathan Reiff–investopedia Palm Beach, Florida is likely to evoke images of beautiful ocean views and warm, sandy beaches. But the south Florida town of about 10,000 year-round citizens also contains a startlingly large percentage of the nation’s billionaires. According to a Forbes list of the wealthiest individuals in the United States released earlier in...Read More
From Politico By Shane Goldmacher Donald Trump added nine new people, including eight women, to his economic council on Thursday — and more than half the additions have either already given Trump money or have pledged to help raise campaign cash for him and the Republican Party. One new addition, hedge fund manager Anthony Scaramucci,...Read More
By Rob Copeland, WJS For his son’s bar mitzvah in 2008, hedge-fund manager Murray Huberfeld chartered a JetBlue plane and invited hundreds to an oceanfront party in Palm Beach, Fla. An Orthodox pop star known as the “Jewish Elvis” entertained the guests, who Mr. Huberfeld says included investors in his fund. Intimate ties and fundraising...Read More
From Bloomberg By Hema Parmar SkyBridge Capital, the fund-of-hedge-funds firm run by Anthony Scaramucci, has opened a London office as it seeks to add business in Europe. The office, which will serve as the firm’s European headquarters, is run by Hesham Alquraini, who formerly worked at the Kuwait Investment Office, Scaramucci said Thursday in an...Read More
From Chicago Business by By LISA BERTAGNOLI Dollars for dinos: The Kenneth C. Griffin Charitable Fund has donated $5.5 million to Field Museum to create a new display on Antarctic dinosaurs. Field Museum announced the gift today. The new Antarctic Dinosaurs exhibit will open at the museum in summer 2018 and run through January 2019. After...Read More
