Ken Griffin - Citadel

Citadel Funds Lose 13% in November, 47% This Year

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December 4, 2008 10:45 pm

Citadel Investment Group LLC, the Chicago-based hedge-fund firm run by Kenneth Griffin, lost 13 percent in November, bringing the decline for the year to 47 percent, according to two people ... Read more »

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S.&P. Cuts Its Ratings on 2 Citadel Hedge Funds

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November 18, 2008 9:34 pm

There’s more bad news for Kenneth C. Griffin’s Citadel Investment Group: The counterparty credit ratings for two of its hedge funds were cut Tuesday by Standard & Poor’s because of ... Read more »

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Soros, Falcone Defend Hedge Funds at House Hearing

Filed under Hedge funds, Ken Griffin - Citadel, George Soros - Soros Fund Management, John Paulson - Paulson & Co., Philip Falcone - Harbinger Capital Partners
November 13, 2008 9:45 pm

Hedge-fund managers including George Soros and Philip Falcone, in an unprecedented appearance before Congress, defended their practices and profits while splitting over whether the U.S. should impose stricter regulations.“This is ... Read more »

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Citadel Hedge Fund Falls 30% on Bond, Stock Losses

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October 16, 2008 9:15 pm

Citadel Investment Group Inc.’s biggest hedge fund fell as much as 30 percent this year because of losses on convertible bonds, stocks and corporate debt, said two people familiar with ... Read more »

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Citadel’s Griffin Finds Himself on the Defense

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October 7, 2008 8:56 pm

Kenneth C. Griffin was one of those Wall Street whiz kids. As a teenager, he traded out of his dorm room at Harvard. In his 20s, he opened his own ... Read more »

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Citadel Investment Seeks $1 Billion for Global Macro Hedge Fund

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August 25, 2008 8:18 pm

Citadel Investment Group LLC, the Chicago-based asset-management firm founded by Kenneth Griffin, is seeking about $1 billion for a new global macro hedge fund, according to a person with knowledge ... Read more »

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Citadel paves way for possible IPO

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February 5, 2008 1:40 pm

Citadel, the hedge fund group run by billionaire Kenneth Griffin, has separated its hedge-fund business from an options marketmaking unit, raising prospects of a stock market flotation. Citadel Derivatives Group, ... Read more »

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Citadel gains in ‘07 put at 30%

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January 5, 2008 7:01 pm

Ending the year on a strong note, Citadel Investment Group LLC gained 30 percent in a volatile market in 2007, and the Chicago-based hedge fund has reached $20 billion in ... Read more »

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Citadel may go public in 2008

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January 4, 2008 1:12 pm

For hedge fund magnate Kenneth C. Griffin, 2007 was the best year ever. His Citadel Investment Group emerged as one of Wall Street’s top opportunists, picking up the pieces of ... Read more »

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Highest paid hedge-fund managers

Filed under Lists and Statistics, James Simons - Renaissance Technologies, Hedge funds, Ken Griffin - Citadel, John Paulson - Paulson & Co., Philip Falcone - Harbinger Capital Partners
December 13, 2007 9:15 am

  Paulson & Co.’s John Paulson earned $2.7 billion in incentive fees in the first nine months of 2007, putting him at the top of our list of best-paid hedge ... Read more »

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Citadel in $2.55bn E-Trade injection

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November 30, 2007 7:02 pm

Citadel, the hedge fund company run by billionaire Ken Griffin, swooped to take advantage of another distressed company in the battered financial sector, pumping $2.55bn into troubled online brokerage E-Trade. ... Read more »

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Paulson Housing Bets Make $2.7 Billion, Beat Citadel

Filed under Hedge funds, Ken Griffin - Citadel, John Paulson - Paulson & Co.
November 29, 2007 3:56 pm

The subprime crisis that’s caused so much trauma for hedge funds and investment banks has brought only good news for John Paulson. He’s the manager of more than $7 billion ... Read more »

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Citadel takes a step toward going public

Filed under Hedge funds, Ken Griffin - Citadel
September 18, 2007 12:44 pm

Citadel Investment Group, the closely-watched hedge fund company that aims to evolve into a financial firm that can take on Wall Street’s biggest brokerages, has poached a senior executive from ... Read more »

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Sowood founder offers investors emotional apology for losses

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August 6, 2007 3:30 pm

Jeffrey Larson, managing partner and founder of collapsed hedge fund Sowood Capital Management, yesterday apologised to investors in an emotional conference call during which he frequently seemed to be on ... Read more »

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Citadel scoops up Sowood Capital

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July 30, 2007 3:08 pm

Citadel Investments, the Chicago-based hedge fund run by billionaire Kenneth Griffin, has stepped in to take over the credit portfolio of Sowood Capital, a smaller fund, which has recently run ... Read more »

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Profile of Ken Griffin of Citadel

Filed under Profiles, Hedge funds, Ken Griffin - Citadel
May 8, 2007 5:03 am

  Hedge fund wunderkind Ken Griffin has $13.5 billion at his disposal—and he definitely knows how to use it.Griffin has kept the internal workings of Citadel closed to all but a tiny inner circle, a feat made possible by the fact that the company is based in Chicago, away from the glare of the New York media http://www.portfolio.com/executives/features/2007/03/29/Opening-Up-the-Citadel

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