StreetInsider.com - Insiders' Edge |  | John Paulson's Hedge Fund Buys Mortgage Assets | ![]() | John Paulson managing director of successful hedge fund, Paulson & Co. has begun last week buying mortgage assets back by residential real estate, reported the Financial Times. John Paulson is the famous hedge fund manager that made over $3 billion last year by shorting (betting against) mortgage securities.
Paulson began building his long position in US residential mortgage securities after they fell in value last week when Hank Paulson, Treasury secretary, said that the government had decided against buying toxic assets as part of its $700 billion troubled asset relief program (Tarp).
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