Hedge Fund Managers

Raj Rajaratnam Profile

By Jonathan Yates When the defense of The Galleon Group founder Raj Rajaratnam rested on April 18, 2011, it was deploying the same strategy that Dennis Levine, the Drexel Burnham managing director, utilized in his trial for insider trading back in the mid 1980s: all the large sized profits were from

Dinakar Singh

Firm: TPG-Axon Capital City: New York 2008 Age: 39 2008 Assets Under Management: $13 Billion Dinakar Singh founded TPG- Axon Capital in late 2004, in partnership with private equity firm Texas Pacific Group – launching with $5 billion in capital. TPG-Axon currently has some 75 researchers sp

David Tepper

Firm: Appaloosa Management City: Chatham, New Jersey 2008 Age: 50 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $4 Billion David Tepper founded Appaloosa Management in 1993. Tepper graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in economics and earned an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University’s Busine

Dan Och

Firm: Och-Ziff Capital City: New York 2008 Age: 47 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $33 Billion Och graduated with a B.S. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Like fellow hedge fund managers Eddie Lampert and Richard Perry – Och worked in the Risk Arbitrage

Nicola Horlick

Firm: Bramdean Asset Management City: London 2008 Age: 47 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): £7 Billion Nicola Horlick established her reputation in the early 1990′s at Morgan Grenfell Investment Management. In 1997 she teamed up with Keith Percy and assumed the role of Chief Executive of SG

Chris Shumway

Firm: Shumway Capital Partners City: Greenwich, Connecticut 2008 Age: 42 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $6 Billion+ Chris Shumway, a protégé of hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson at Tiger Managment, founded Shumway Capital Partners in 2002. See also: Top Hedge Fund Managers, Interviews w

Chase Coleman

Firm: Tiger Global Management City: New York 2008 Age: 33 2008 Assets Under Management: $5 Billion A direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, Charles Payson ‘Chase’ Coleman III graduated from Williams College. Coleman is the founder and managing partner of New York based Tiger Global Manag

Louis Bacon

Firm: Moore Capital Management City: London 2008 Age: 51 2008 Assets Under Management: $15 Billion Louis Bacon is the manager of a leading New York City based hedge fund, Moore Capital Management (after his mother’s maiden name). Moore Capital is headquartered in New York City but has other o

Larry Robbins

Firm: Glenview Capital City: New York 2008 Age: 38 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $7 Billion Prior to founding Glenview Capital Larry Robbins was a trader at Leon Cooperman’s Omega Advisors. Focused on concentrated positions in large cap stocks, Glenview Capital is an activist hedge fund

Jonathan Lourie

Firm: Cheyne Capital City: London 2008 Age: 46 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $11 Billion Jonathan Lourie graduated from Dartmouth College Phi Beta Kappa and Summa Cum Laude in 1983. He went on to work for Morgan Stanley where he focused on the management of convertible bonds. Along with Stu