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Bradley Saacks @SaacksAttack

Hedge fund reporter at @businessinsider. Alum of @Semafor, @Ignites, @business, @statesman and @dailytarheel. Just one of the Saacks boys.

Joined October 2010
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CAROLINA HURRICANES. 2026 STANLEY CUP CHAMPIONS. PLAY. THE. DAMN. SONG.

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THE CUP IS COMING BACK TO RALEIGH!!!
Graphic promoting the Carolina Hurricanes as the 2025-26 Stanley Cup Champions

ALT Graphic promoting the Carolina Hurricanes as the 2025-26 Stanley Cup Champions

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Mets owner Steve Cohen got a $3.4 billion payday from his hedge fund last year. Here are the top earners in 2025: bloomberg.com/news/features/…
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'A long, slow bleed': Quant hedge funds are scrambling for answers after a mystifying string of losses via @businessinsider
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Death, taxes, and UNC hiring Skadden (great story @zeanes) theassemblync.com/education/…

UNC’s Risky Belichick Math 

An Assembly analysis finds UNC football has already set aside millions of dollars to bolster incoming head coach Bill Belichick and the team.

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Qube’s buildout continues apace
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When computer-run hedge funds need the humans. via @SaacksAttack businessinsider.com/quant-he…
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Muddy Waters has a new short: businessinsider.com/carson-b…

Why Carson Block is shorting cosmetics company ELF Beauty

At the Sohn Conference in London, the short-seller Muddy Waters revealed its latest target: ELF Beauty.

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Jeffrey Cane@Jeffrey_Cane
4 Nov 2024
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is killing it this year. @SaacksAttack has the October numbers for the giant hedge funds here: businessinsider.com/october-…

Schonfeld is leading its peers a year after the $11.6 billion firm ended tie-up talks with Millen...

Schonfeld had another strong month in October, outpacing its rivals Citadel and Millennium.

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Who Dat, I guess
Pope Francis – ARCHIVE
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The #Saints are formed by the Beatitudes: poor, meek, merciful, hungering and thirsting for justice, seeking peace. They are “filled with God” and incapable of remaining indifferent to the needs of their neighbour. They bear witness to paths of light that we too can trod.
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Jeffrey Cane@Jeffrey_Cane
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"More than 200 people who work at the $64 billion firm Citadel have a title on LinkedIn that deems them the 'head' of some part of the business". @SaacksAttack on title inflation at hedge funds. businessinsider.com/an-insid…

What's in a title? How hedge funds and their employees use the industry's lack of consistency to...

Hedge fund titles have become a part of the industry's talent war. "It's extremely tough to know who's real and who isn't," one recruiter said.

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Kendall Roy level pratfalls in this one: on.ft.com/4845OjR
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Head of macro wants $5 million, minimum, from Einhorn businessinsider.com/greenlig…

Greenlight's alleged former head of macro is hoping to get at least $5 million from David Einhorn,...

James Fishback and his former employer Greenlight Capital have been in a legal battle since last October.

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Wrote something quick about a topic I’ve covered since I started on the hedge fund beat many moons ago: alt data businessinsider.com/hedge-fu…

Hedge funds are planning a 'budget boom' in 2025 for the datasets that cost them millions a year

A new report from a data consultancy finds that a 95% of asset managers are either increasing their budgets next year or keeping the same data spend.

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Jeffrey Cane@Jeffrey_Cane
28 Aug 2024
"It's what we wanted to see," one Two Sigma investor told Business Insider. via @SaacksAttack businessinsider.com/two-sigm…

Inside $60 billion Two Sigma's leadership change: The big winners and a hint at its future

The $60 billion quant hedge fund's feuding founders John Overdeck and David Siegel are stepping back as co-CEOs.

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15 Aug 2024
"It used to be like a bunch of mercenaries." How activist hedge fund Elliott Management has changed. via @SaacksAttack businessinsider.com/why-elli…

How $70 billion Elliott has evolved to be a more 'rigid' hedge-fund behemoth, spawning a class of...

Elliott Management, the $69.7 billion activist investor, has become more institutional, frustrating some who are nostalgic for its more freewheeling days.

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Jeffrey Cane@Jeffrey_Cane
24 Jun 2024
A $5B hedge fund is about to make its debut. Jain Global's No. 2 tells @SaacksAttack of @BusinessInsider how this mega money manager will be different than the rest. businessinsider.com/bobby-ja…

Jain Global, the most anticipated new hedge fund in years, is about to make its debut. An architect...

Bobby Jain set out to build a different type of hedge fund. His second in command, Jonathan Barton, takes us behind the biggest launch in years.

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Alex Morrell@alexmorrell
13 Jun 2024
Coatue rising star Aaron Weiner's hedge fund launch will get multi-billion dollar check from Millennium in exclusive deal businessinsider.com/coatue-s… via @businessinsider

Millennium is committing a multibillion-dollar check to Coatue rising star's hedge-fund launch

Aaron Weiner, 31, is the latest non-Millennium trading talent to get financial backing from Izzy Englander's hedge-fund giant.

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I know there’s only 37 people left who still use GroupMe, but the latest AI-ified update is awful. I cannot stress enough how I don’t need an AI copilot to text my old college roommates about UNC basketball and memes.
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Get your RenTech numbers, get your DE Shaw numbers, get your Two Sigma numbers (and more!) businessinsider.com/quant-he…

Here's how big-name quants like Renaissance Technologies and D.E. Shaw performed in April despite...

Renaissance Technologies withstood April's market volatility. Its legendary founder, Jim Simons, died last week.

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Wrote about everyone’s favorite hedge fund/journalism outlet: businessinsider.com/hunterbr…

This news-driven hedge fund has made headlines for its unique approach. Here's how it actually...

The hybrid news organization/hedge fund Hunterbrook has an unusual model, but ultimately it is a small macro fund in a competitive field.

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