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“Take me out,” he told Bridgewater executives at the time, according to people present at the meetings and documents reviewed by The New York Times, “and get what you deserve,” a threat that implied the firm would fall apart without him.The…

But not everything went to plan.The pilots placed a sell order with their brokers, but they were unable to execute the trade in the window before the AACo board made a stock exchange announcement with a financial update.Afterwards, the…

Lewis, who has a net worth of $US6.6 billion according to the Bloomberg Billionaires Index, is the latest figure to be swept up in an insider-trading crackdown led by federal prosecutors in Manhattan. Last month, prosecutors announced…

Receive free US Department of Justice updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US Department of Justicenews every morning. Joe Lewis, the billionaire real estate investor and owner of Tottenham Hotspur…

With the drought in IPOs on Wall Street, and perhaps because of it, it seems that investors have an appetite for flotations of profitable growth companies. An example is Israeli company Oddity Tech (Nasdaq: ODD), the…

Receive free US presidential election 2024 updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest US presidential election 2024news every morning. Powerful Republican donors and billionaires Ken Griffin and Nelson…

Receive free Oleg Tinkov updatesWe’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Oleg Tinkovnews every morning. The first Russian billionaire to have western sanctions against him removed has said he hopes the decision…

Maybe it’s crossed your mind at some point that it must be rather nice to be ridiculously rich. You’ve possibly even thought about what car you’d buy or want to splash out on for a loved one. But beyond purchasing the odd lotto ticket or…

Los Angeles-based Creative Artists Agency (CAA), one of the biggest entertainment and sports agencies in the world, is reportedly in talks to sell a majority stake in its business.That’s according to Bloomberg, which reports that the entity…

Ong Beng Seng, the managing director of Hotel Properties Limited (HPL), has been issued a notice of arrest by the Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau (CPIB) in relation to his interactions with Singapore’s Transport Minister, S Iswaran.…