Greenlight Capital News

Bond Insurer Assured Guaranty Defends Against Attack by Greenlight’s Einhorn

Hedge fund manager David Einhorn said on Monday that his Greenlight Capital was betting Assured Guaranty’s stock will fall, sending shares of the bond insurer down as much as 6 percent in after-hours trading. Einhorn, who is known to move …

UBS Hedge Fund to Manage Money for Bermuda Reinsurer Launched by Enstar

UBS O’Connor LLC, the $6 billion hedge-fund unit within Switzerland’s biggest bank, will manage money for a new Bermuda-based reinsurance company formed by insurer Enstar Group Ltd. Aligned Re Ltd. is expected to be funded by third-party capital along with …

Third Point Re: ‘It’s Tough Out There’ with Ongoing Influx of Capital Market Capacity

Executives at Dan Loeb’s reinsurer, which is headed for its second-straight annual decline in New York trading, told investors not to count on a quick rebound in the industry as competition intensifies. “It’s tough out there,” Robert Bredahl, Third Point …

Einhorn’s Greenlight Re May Gain $30.4M From China’s Currency Devaluation

With U.S. equities declining in the wake of China’s currency devaluation, hedge fund manager David Einhorn may be one of the few stock pickers to get a direct boost from the yuan’s sudden decline. Greenlight Capital Re Ltd., an insurer …