As Greenberg Leaves Paulson & Co., Watching Long/Short Strategy Development Most Interesting

After a hectic year of investor defections and humbling losses, hedge fund manager John Paulson lost a valuable market strategist. Last Friday, Samantha Greenberg, a partner at the $16.2 billion hedge fund Paulson & Co., announced she was leaving the firm, Reuters hedge fund journalist Lawrence Delevingne first reported. The move is interesting on several levels: Paulson has struggled with high volatility since his spectacular 2007 bet on the housing bubble. But more than Paulson, Greenberg is herself a story. She is among a statistically rare group of women who have found success in hedge fund money management, and she in forming a new long / short equity hedge fund while entering one...