Goldman's hedge fund trio raise $1.5bn

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-...ise-1-5-billion-to-establish-hedge-funds.html

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Eric Mandelblatt expects to have raised at least $500 million when his Soroban Capital Partners LLC begins trading stocks next month, according to two people with direct knowledge of the New York-based hedge-fund firm