Ray Dalio is the founder of Bridgewater Associates which manages over $150 billion in assets. Bridgewater Associates runs one of the largest hedge funds in the world, and their Pure Alpha fund has over $45 billion assets under management
By Jim Wyckoff, JimWyckoff.com “My work has gotten better due to simplifying my approach,” John J. Murphy, the veteran technical analyst, author and CNBC resident technical analyst, told a group of equities and futures traders attending the Technical Analysis Group (TAG) XVIII trading conference sponsored by Dow Jones Telerate in New Orleans. Murphy said he
Firm: BP Capital ManagementCity: Dallas2008 Age: 792008 Assets Under Management: $5 Billion Born in 1928, Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. is chairman of the hedge fund BP Capital Management (BP standing for Boone Pickens). His father worked as an oil and mineral land man. Pickens attended Texas A&M on a basketball scholarship but transferred to Oklahoma
Firm: Duquesne CapitalCity: New York2008 Age: 552008 Assets Under Management: $10 Billion Druckenmiller graduated from from Bowdoin College in 1975 where he studied English and Economics. He went on to begin a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan but decided leave the program to take a job as a stock analyst for Pittsburgh National Bank.
Firm: Tudor Investment Corp.City: Greenwich, Connecticut2008 Age: 532008 Assets Under Management: $18 Billion Memphis born hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in economics in 1976. Tudor Jones went on to work for Eli Tullis, a successful cotton speculator at the New York Cotton Exchange. In 1980