Hedge fund up-and-comers that want to give back—but not as much as the industry titans—will have their chance tonight at the fifth annual London gala for Hedge Funds Care. For years, there was only one hedge fund charity event in the city: the annual Ark fundraiser held every spring that drew the industry glitterati. Spearheaded [...]
The professional association 100 Women in Hedge Funds raised $1.6 million at its annual New York gala on Wednesday night for Big Brothers Big Sisters of America, the youth mentoring organization. The event, at Cipriani 42d Street in Manhattan, also honored the Texas billionaire T. Boone Pickens and Dorothy Collins Weaver, chairwoman and chief executive [...]
CyclingforSinai.com Steven Koch, Credit Suisse’s co-chairman of mergers and acquisitions. It’s fair to say that as Credit Suisse’s co-chairman of mergers and acquisitions, Steven Koch is well traveled. But his latest journey isn’t exactly a typical business trip. For the past two months, Mr. Koch and his son, Jacob, have been biking across the southern [...]
The Decathlon.org Justin Nunez of Goldman Sachs, who won third place in the Decathlon. People in finance are usually more accustomed to competing for corporate clients and underwriting contracts. But this time, they fought it out for the title of Wall Street’s best athlete. More than 25 representatives of financial firms gathered at the Mitchel [...]
The New Yorker’s Jane Mayer recently wrote a profile of billionaires Charles and David Koch of Koch Industries called “Covert Operations,” in which she details how the brothers are “waging war against Obama.” The piece also raises concerns about their business practices. As Mayer writes, “The Kochs are longtime libertarians who believe in drastically lower [...]
Goldman Sachs’s recent drive to help improve its image may have gotten a boost this weekend when the bank’s chief executive, Lloyd C. Blankfein, used a flip-turn to winning results in a charity swim event at the Southampton Bath & Tennis Club. According to The New York Observer, Mr. Blankfein “swam a pool-conquering 134 laps [...]
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