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    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      US capitalism is ‘breaking down before our eyes’, says Ken Griffin

      Citadel founder argues that refusing to bail out SVB depositors in full would be ‘great lesson in moral hazard’

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      News in-depthCitadel LLC
      How Citadel harnessed the weather to claim hedge fund crown

      Bold bet on commodities plays large part in lifting Ken Griffin’s firm to record $16bn profit

    • Tuesday, 24 January, 2023
      Due Diligence
      Ken Griffin’s $16bn profit-palooza Premium content

      Plus, activist investors circle Salesforce and Bill Ackman gets in on the watch game

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Hedge funds
      RIP the cult of the Tiger cub

      Et tu, Lone Pine?

    • Monday, 23 January, 2023
      Hedge funds
      Citadel breaks records with $16bn profit

      Ken Griffin’s hedge fund charged investors $12bn in fees and expenses in 2022

    • Friday, 6 January, 2023
      Hedge funds
      It’s Kenny G’s world

      We just live in it

    • Tuesday, 13 December, 2022
      Citadel founder Ken Griffin sues US tax agency over leak of records

      ‘IRS employees deliberately stole’ returns, hedge fund tycoon alleges in complaint

    • Wednesday, 28 September, 2022
      ‘Just a question of when’: Citadel’s Griffin predicts US recession

      Billionaire investor joins chorus of voices anticipating pain for American economy

    • Thursday, 18 August, 2022
      Citadel LLC
      Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities borrows $600mn as trading revenues surge

      Lenders line up to provide financing after volatility spurs profit gains for US equities trading house

    • Monday, 1 August, 2022
      News in-depthUS economy
      Wave of corporate exits sends chill through Chicago

      Departures of Boeing, Caterpillar and Citadel headquarters come as leaders fret over crime

    • Thursday, 23 June, 2022
      Ken Griffin’s Citadel ditches Chicago for Miami following crime complaints

      Hedge fund is latest US company to depart Illinois in less than two months

    • Tuesday, 21 June, 2022
      News in-depthUS midterm elections
      Illinois governor’s race shapes up to be a battle of the billionaires

      Citadel’s Ken Griffin faces off against a Republican megadonor and an heir to the Hyatt hotel fortune

    • Tuesday, 25 January, 2022
      The Big Read
      Citadel Securities: how the Wall Street outsider became ‘the Amazon of financial markets’

      Involved in more than 25 per cent of all US stock trades, and tipped to float, the company is the focus of SEC scrutiny

    • Friday, 14 January, 2022
      Person in the NewsRobin Wigglesworth
      Ken Griffin, financial prodigy turned industry giant

      Citadel Securities deal is latest in string of successes for controversial hedge funder

    • Wednesday, 12 January, 2022
      Due Diligence
      Meme stocks -> crypto -> IPO: Citadel Securities’ new playbook Premium content

      Plus, Google steps up its Brussels lobbying and companies embark on a borrowing binge

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      Hedge funds
      Ken Griffin’s Citadel Securities sells $1.2bn stake to Sequoia and Paradigm

      Deal values trading firm at $22bn and paves way for initial public offering

    • Friday, 19 November, 2021
      Citadel LLC
      Griffin buys copy of US constitution after bidding war with crypto traders

      Citadel founder pays $43.2m for document and will display it in Walmart heir’s museum

    • Monday, 4 October, 2021
      Retail trading
      Citadel Securities founder ‘quite fine’ with ending payment for order flow

      Kenneth Griffin says a ban on the controversial practice would cut costs for the market maker

    • Friday, 1 October, 2021
      Retail trading
      Citadel Securities uses social media to battle online trolls

      US group seeks to swat away ‘conspiracy theories’ regarding restricted trading in meme stocks

    • Wednesday, 7 April, 2021
      News in-depthCitadel LLC
      How Ken Griffin rebuilt Citadel’s ramparts

      The Chicago-based hedge fund manager has rebounded from the brink of collapse during the last financial crisis

    • Sunday, 28 March, 2021
      Citadel’s Griffin warns of inflation risk to markets enjoying retail trading boom

      Stimulus could jolt inflationary pressures back to life, top hedge fund manager warns

    • Thursday, 18 February, 2021
      Retail trading
      Robinhood chief apologises over GameStop affair

      Vlad Tenev admits a liquidity crisis led to trading curbs that outraged users

    • Tuesday, 2 February, 2021
      Due Diligence
      Robinhood, GameStop and a last-minute dealmaking dash Premium content

      The trading platform’s regulatory woes spurred a flurry of venture capital deals

    • Thursday, 28 January, 2021
      Mergers & Acquisitions
      The hedge fund that got wrecked by day traders Premium content

      Melvin Capital, which tends to run a fairly aggressive short book, had bet that GameStop shares would fall

    • Monday, 25 January, 2021
      Hedge funds
      Steve Cohen provides funds for hedge fund protégé Gabe Plotkin

      Point72 and Ken Griffin’s Citadel invest $2.75bn with Melvin Capital

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