DealBook Column: Leon Cooperman Lashes Out in Letter to President Obama

By Ed Liston: As seen on Seeking Alpha:

Insider Monkey submits: Leon Cooperman worked at Goldman Sachs (GS) for twenty five years and he was formerly Chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Currently Leon Cooperman is the chairman of Omega Advisors where he is managing 6 billion dollars.

By Insider Monkey: Leon Cooperman has one of the older hedge funds around. He founded his Omega Advisors in 1991, after spending 25 years at Goldman Sachs. Cooperman's career at Goldman Sachs was impressive. He worked his way up the corporate ladder from conducting investment research in the company's asset management arm to becoming the general partner, chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs Asset Management.

By Insider Monkey: By Marshall Hargrave

By Insider Monkey: By: Jake Mann We track more than 400 hedge fund managers, though just a small fraction (around 10%) have a net worth in excess of $1 billion. One of the most notable billionaires of our time is Leon Cooperman. Cooperman's fund, Omega Advisors, has amassed an equity portfolio of more than $5 billion.

Billionaire hedge fund manager Leon Cooperman, who runs Omega Advisors, just filed his 13F for the fourth-quarter ended 12/31/2012. 

By Insider Monkey: Leon Cooperman, the billionaire behind Omega Advisors, really shook things up in the third quarter. Cooperman is “staying away from most banking stocks,” looking for stocks with a “decent story” and focusing on undervalued stocks. The broad strategy led Cooperman to make some interesting moves in the third quarter.

By Insider Monkey: Omega Advisors was founded in 1991 and Leon Cooperman is the billionaire Chairman and CEO. Omega Advisors invests in value stocks with a top down approach to select the sectors with a long/short fundamental analysis, and with a bottom up approach to create portfolios. Cooperman has more than $5 billion in assets under management.