PBHFA’s Director Dr. Anna Pomeranet’s research on financial transaction taxes was featured in a Wall Street Journal article focused on Bernie Sander’s tax plan. What would Bernie Sanders’ Wall St. tax look like? By John Carney Published: Feb 14, 2016 6:36 p.m. ET Bernie Sanders wants to raise a lot of money from Wall Street. Mr. Sanders’s plan isn’t to ask Wall Street...Read More
Hedge funds rejoice! A massive data center may soon make its home in Palm Beach County. Data is what runs the modern financial markets. Hedge funds, in particular, tend to cluster around data centers for speed and order transmitting efficiency. The following article from the Sun Sentinel explains….. By Skylar Swisher republished from the Sun Sentinel Data centers house rows of computer systems...Read More
Our first friendship forging & dealmaking event of 2016 was another huge success! Despite one of the largest rainfalls in history, the event was well attended with South Florida’s hedge fund and alternative finance elite. Here are a few photos of the evening: Read More
From Reuters Hedge funds are starting the year off negative. Professional money managers gathered at an elite Morgan Stanley investment conference in Palm Beach, Florida this week expressed a range of pessimistic market views, including so-called bearish takes on the energy sector, China, and stocks such as Valeant Pharmaceuticals and SolarCity. Paul Tudor Jones, the billionaire head of hedge fund firm Tudor Investment Corp, said...Read More
From CNBC We welcome billionaire hedge fund manager David Tepper’s Appaloosa Management to South Florida! The latest large financial firm to establish itself in the Sunshine State is Appaloosa, the $18.6 billion hedge fund manager led by David Tepper. Appaloosa recently opened a small office on Washington Avenue in the heart of South Beach, the Miami area’s flagship vacation destination, according to public securities filings...Read More
