At the moment, John Paulson is taking it on the chin in his main Advantage fund.
John Paulson owns 9.31% of International Tower Hill Mines, or 8, 949, 654 shares in total.
In very simple terms the portfolio here was not selected by John Paulson.
Take, for example, John Paulson, the hedge-fund guru who made billions of dollars predicting America's housing crisis.
Hedge fund titans like billionaire John Paulson had a terrible year and lost massive amounts of money.
Smart guys like John Paulson and George Soros figured that out.
Such noted hedge fund barons as George Soros and John Paulson signed onto this playbook to one degree or another.
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Two years ago, Gary put some money with hedge fund superstar John Paulson who shorted the ABX BBB Index.
Among those caught out by the 74% nosedive was John Paulson, whose hedge fund owned 12.5% of the stock.
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Henry Paulson Jr. (no relation to John Paulson) is both former Goldman CEO and George W. Bush's last Treasury Secretary.
These recent accounting problems unveiled by Caterpillar recall the Sino-Forrest scandal that hit billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson.
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In addition, another TALF participant was a bank controlled by investment funds connected to billionaires John Paulson and Michael Dell.
Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson might be feeling that pain in regards to his Bank of America position.
John Paulson raised his stake in SPDR Gold Trust ( GLD) and bought more shares of NovaGold Resources ( NG) last quarter.
For years NovaGold Resources has excited investors, like billionaires George Soros, John Paulson and Thomas Kaplan, who were bullish on gold.
George Soros, John Paulson and Julian Robertson have either opened new offices or gained licenses to operate in Hong Kong.
More recently hedge fund manager John Paulson has been an opportunistic buyer of home lots in depressed Arizona, Colorado and Nevada.
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Finally, I think there is one way to beat the market but it only works occasionally as John Paulson found out.
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However, should John Paulson be found to be selling his vast gold position, there could be a considerable rush to the exits.
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Billionaire John Paulson made a fortune betting against subprime mortgages and the financial firms peddling them leading up to the financial crisis.
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Now the key here is that on the other side of that bet were highly sophisticated investors with much larger funds than John Paulson's.
After all, hedge-fund investor John Paulson, now legendary for shorting the subprime-mortgage market and for betting on gold, remains a big gold bull.
The oft-mentioned Abacus trade structured by Goldman Sachs for John Paulson and IKB was highly illiquid, and narrowly assembled for the clients in question.
John Paulson, the hedge fund manager who pulled off the greatest trade ever by betting against subprime mortgage securities, has experienced two difficult years.
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He was on the cusp of entering the pantheon of world-class, John Paulson-esque hedge-fund managers in the summer of 2008, and he just missed it.
Reports overnight said major investors George Soros and John Paulson have significantly increased their holdings in the largest gold-backed exchange traded fund, SPDR Gold Trust.
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John Paulson figured out a way to bet against subprime mortgages.
The most notorious case involved hedge fund manager John Paulson, who was allowed by Goldman to hand-pick toxic waste for CDOs Goldman sold to unsuspecting clients.
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That includes a huge stake in the fund managed by John Paulson, famous for his successful bets against subprime mortgage debt during the financial crisis.
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