Anthony Scaramucci, Hedge Fund Showman, Finds Himself in Limbo -<br />By ALEXANDRA STEVENSONMAY 18, 2017<br />LAS VEGAS — Hedge fund managers know him as one of their own — the wealthy, backslapping<br />host of their industry’s splashiest conference each year in Las Vegas.<br />“He professionalized the industry, and SALT is the highlight of the industry.”<br />Mr. Cooperman, who has addressed SALT panels in previous years but was not at the conference this year, said Mr. Scaramucci “would have been a good addition to the administration” but added<br />that Mr. Trump “has already appointed many intelligent people.”<br />Mr. Scaramucci, 53, did not reply to requests for comment.<br />Along the way, he accused Mr. Trump of being a “hack politician” who had a “big mouth.”<br />Mr. Trump had equally tart words for hedge fund managers, who he said were “paper pushers” who were “getting away with murder.”<br />But as Mr. Trump’s unlikely candidacy gained steam, Mr. Scaramucci began to defend him.<br />Instead, Mr. Scaramucci was back in Las Vegas for his ninth SALT event, a conference he started as a way to market his hedge fund firm.<br />Mr. Scaramucci sold his stake in SkyBridge Capital, his hedge fund of funds business,<br />early this year, leaving him without a financial institution to his name.
