Monday, February 24, 2014

John Paulson owns the following in his US portfolio

Extended Stay America (STAY): According to public filings STAY is Paulson's largest position at almost 10 percent of his US long portfolio.

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMHC): HMHC is 3.38% of Paulson's long US equities portfolio.

Caesars Acquisition Company (CACQ): CACQ is a 0.96% of the US long portfolio stake established this quarter.

Others:
Santarus Inc. (SNTS)
American Airlines Group (AAL)
Compuware Corporation (CPWR)
Digital Realty (DLR)

Monday, February 17, 2014

John Paulson is bullish stocks

Hedgefund genius John Paulson in an interview early 2014 says, 

The U.S. economy hasn’t taken off. It’s doing OK. I’m hopeful that growth will pick up -- we are somewhere in the middle of the cycle.


Paulson, who runs the $20 billion Paulson & Co., said one reason to be optimistic about equities is that the economy is just in the middle of its current growth cycle. His Recovery Fund, which buys stakes in companies that he expects to profit from an improving economy, climbed 63 percent last year. His Recovery Fund was No. 3 in Bloomberg’s ranking.


via http://www.sfgate.com/business/bloomberg/article/Altman-Leads-Hedge-Fund-Managers-Betting-Stock-5161405.php

Monday, February 10, 2014

John Paulson European unit increased profits

John Paulson Europe, a Jermyn Street-based subsidiary of Wall Street firm Paulson & Co, increased turnover by 14 per cent from £13.3m to £15.2m for the year ending March 2013, reversing a 32 per cent decline in 2012.

While still lower than the £26.5m profit in 2011-12, Paulson’s European comeback comes amid a better performance across its suite of funds.

The accounts, filed at Companies House, show two Paulson partners left the company last year, with both Nikolai Petchenikov and Mina Herrmann exiting the business in December and May 2012 respectively.

The highest paid member of the partnership for 2013 was paid nearly £2m

- Via  http://www.cityam.com/article/1389313783/paulson-heals-european-trades-post-return-form

Monday, February 3, 2014

John Paulson backed OneWest seeking buyer

OneWest Bank FSB, the lender backed by John Paulson and George Soros, is working with Goldman Sachs Group Inc. to find a buyer as it also prepares for an initial public offering, people with knowledge of the matter said.

OneWest, which was known as IndyMac Bancorp Inc. before its 2008 failure, has begun reaching out to potential buyers and plans to solicit bids in the next two months, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the matter is not public. If it cannot find a buyer it will file for an IPO, possibly in the second quarter, the people said.

The lender had $3.8 billion in tangible equity at the end of September, filings show. At that size, its acquisition would be the largest of a U.S. Bank since Capital One Financial Corp. acquired ING Groep NV’s online lender for $9.1 billion in 2011, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. With U.S. regulators wary of letting lenders grow too large, takeovers by banks in the country have stalled since the credit crisis.