A former SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager was convicted Thursday of helping his company earn more than a quarter of a billion dollars illegally through trades based on secrets about the testing of a potential breakthrough Alzheimer’s drug. A federal jury in Manhattan found Mathew Martoma, 39, guilty on all […]
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SAC Shrinks U.S. Stock Holdings by $2 Billion Amid Probe
Billionaire Steven A. Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors LP, the hedge-fund firm facing federal insider-trading charges and client defections, cut its U.S. stock-listed holdings by about $2 billion in the second quarter. SAC held $16.2 billion of U.S.-listed stocks as of June 30, according to a filing yesterday with the U.S. […]
SAC Capital up 4 percent this year as probe continues
Hedge fund titan Steven A. Cohen’s SAC Capital Advisors has gained about 4 percent this year, beating the industry average at a time the $15 billion fund is still very much in federal investigators’ crosshairs. An investor with the Stamford, Connecticut-based fund said the firm’s flagship portfolio had risen about […]
