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From Bloomberg by Saijel Kishan Margaret Collins   Step inside Table Management, an obscure investment firm in New York, and something strange happens: you’re transported to the rarefied realm ofBill Ackman, the billionaire hedge fund manager. Table, it turns out, is sort of a secret wrapped in mystery. From the same Manhattan skyscraper as Ackman’sPershing...
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    From The Wall Street Journal   By Juliet Chung The recent market rout caught some star Wall Street traders by surprise. But not a hedge-fund firm affiliated with “The Black Swan” author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, which gained more than $1 billion on a strategy that seeks to profit from extreme events in financial...
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By Sujan Patel: Entrepreneur In business — as in real estate — it’s all about location, location, location. Despite the rise in remote-work arrangements, this sentiment holds true even if you don’t have a physical store. Where you put your headquarters can affect your ability to hire, as well as determine the business partners and investors you...
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From PB Post Purpose Built Communities, an Atlanta nonprofit backed by billionaires Buffet, former hedge fund manager Julian Robertson and Atlanta developer/former Atlanta Hawks owner Tom Cousins, spent three days touring the city and meeting with local leaders. It has its eyes on West Palm Beach’s Northwest, Coleman Park and Pleasant City neighborhoods, areas of entrenched, generational...
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From: FCIR.ORG Editor’s note: Puerto Rico is about to default on its $72 billion debt, and its government would like to file bankruptcy — something a commonwealth, unlike a city, is prohibited from doing. Now, there are questions about whether Puerto Rico’s debt crisis might become a national political issue. Puerto Rico Gov. Alejandro García Padilla...
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From South Florida Business Journal A company controlled by Chicago-based hedge fund Citadel bought a Palm Beach mansion for $15.25 million – snaring five properties on the same street of the wealthy island. Tracy Kamenstein Markin, the widow of an automotive executive, sold the 10,873-square-foot house at 70 Blossom Way to CPPB Holdings, an affiliate...
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From Palm Beach Daily News By Shannon Donnelly Daily News Society Editor Yet one more indication that Palm Beach is the money center of the universe: In a new Forbes.com piece on the “20 Richest Families in America,” 11 – yes, 11 – of them have ties to Palm Beach. The names include Koch (live...
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From NYT Jean Pigozzi, the venture capitalist and art collector, was lounging by the pool at his villa in Cap d’Antibes early this month, enjoying a rare break from what he calls “the circuit.” After attending the World Economic Forum in Davos in January, he flew to the TED ideas conference in Vancouver, mingling with...
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 From CTPost.com “Connecticut’s one of the most beautiful states around, but I live in Florida because it’s a better place to do business,” said Scott, a former Greenwich resident and former venture capitalist. Since he was elected governor in 2010, Scott said he has added 879,000 jobs in Florida and reduced unemployment from 11.2 percent...
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From ForwardFlorida.com   With apologies to Horace Greeley and the cause of Manifest Destiny, hedge funds have caught the migratory fever and are loading up their wagons — albeit with office furniture — and pursuing new frontiers such as South Florida, which is viewed as being rife with opportunity (and wealthy residents). New York-based SkyBridge...
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