Paulson and Co

If you’re an insecure Paulson and Co investor, you’ve probably spent at least several hours if not days or weeks at a time wondering how John felt about you. Would he like you as much if you weren’t a paying client? Does he prefer older investors? Does he play favorites with the gold fund? Well wonder no longer. His feelings have been made clear by this year’s investor conferences. All but one strategy have already had their events in Manhattan. Nice, but not the same as spending a whole weekend with him that potentially includes waking up with Mike Tyson’s tiger in your hotel suite after marrying a stripper named Jade. That opportunity goes to investors in Paulson Advantage, the flagship fund, which will have its meeting in Vegas next week. Continue reading »

Better than losing things like your life, family, house, possessions, etc, though it’s unclear if the LPs have made it to the the ‘perspective’ stage just yet. Continue reading »

HOW DO YOU LIKE ME NOW?

Remember John Paulson’s big trade a few years ago? This subprime business something or other? It ended up pretty well for him, netting a bunch of billions and the respect of his peers but at the time, most people who JP told about it it had a good laugh at his expense and thought to themselves, “who is this fuckin’ guy,” Paulson recounts. Continue reading »

In a piece today on John Paulson’s 2010 performance, the Journal notes that while it was pretty good, the hedge fund manager shouldn’t exactly be doing any victory dances in the end zone. Sure, 30+ percent returns, when you’re managing more than $30 billion, are “very rare” in the business. But, they’re just saying, JoPau probably shouldn’t be doing any bragging and may in fact want to think about where he went wrong, considering in 2007 he returned 590 percent. They don’t want to be critical! They’re merely pointing out: no one’s written a book about Paulson’s 2010 trades. Perhaps feeling a bit bad, or as though they’d gone too far, they do charitably note that the $5 billion Paulson earned is a lot more than some people. Continue reading »

The investment in the former has made Paulson and Co over $1 billion since mid-2009 and the latter is on the up and up. Continue reading »

He’s does it all the time around the office but never in public, in front of other people.

To: NYU Stern Community

Subject: Interview with Dr. Allan Greenspan, Former Chairman of the Federal Reserve, by John A. Paulson, President of Paulson & Co. Inc

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