Hedge Fund Managers

John Zwaanstra

Firm: Penta Investment Advisers City: Tokyo 2008 Age: 42 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $5 Billion Zwaanstra founded Penta Investment Advisers in 1998. Prior to that he had spent three years working as a fund manager for George Soros. Zwaanstra divides his time between Tokyo and Hawaii. See als

John Griffin

Firm: Blue Ridge Capital City: New York 2008 Age: 45 2008 Assets Under Management: $7 Billion Griffin’s Blue Ridge Capital produced a return of 65% in 2007. Griffin, a protégé of hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson, is said to have been his right hand man at Tiger Management. See also: To

John Burbank Profile

By Jonathan Yates (May 2011) Like Bruce Kovner, founder of Caxton Associates, LLC, John Burbank III, founder of Passport Capital LLC, financed his initial foray into investing with money borrowed from his credit cards.  Unlike Kovner, Burbank lost almost all of the $50,000 borrowed.  Like Kovner,

Jim Simons

Firm: Renaissance Technologies City: East Setauket, New York 2008 Age: 69 2008 Assets Under Management: 30+ Billion James Harris “Jim” Simons received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in 1958, and his PhD, also in mathematics

Jim Rogers

Jim Rogers is a hedge-fund manager, analyst, and author of Investment Biker: Around the World with Jim Rogers (2003), Adventure Capitalist: The Ultimate Road Trip (2004), Hot Commodities: How Anyone Can Invest Profitably in the World’s Best Market (2007), A Bull in China: Investing Profitab

Jim Pallotta

City: Boston 2008 Age: 50 Jim Pallotta spent 15 years as a money manager for Paul Tudor Jones at the $18 billion Tudor Investment Corp. According to a letter sent to investors, Pallotta is leaving Tudor Investment to start his own firm. He will retain control of his $5 billion Raptor Global Fund al

Jim Chanos

Firm: Kynikos Associates City: New York 2008 Age: 50 2008 Assets Under Management: $4 Billion James Chanos was born in Milwaukee in 1958. He graduated from Yale University in 1980. Chanos is is the president and founder of New York based Kynikos Associates. Kynikos is Greek for cynic. Chanos is famo

Jeffrey Gendell

Firm: Tontine Associates City: Greenwich, Connecticut 2008 Age: 48 2008 Assets Under Management: $10 Billion Jeffrey Gendell, a graduate of Duke University, started out his career in finance at Smith Barney’s. In 1997 he founded Tontine Partners. In 2003 and 2005 the fund generated stellar ret

Andreas Halvorsen

Firm: Viking Global Investors City: Greenwich, Connecticut 2008 Age: 47 2008 Assets Under Management: $10 Billion Halvorsen graduated from the Norwegian Naval Academy and served as a Platoon Commander on the Norwegian Seal team. He graduated from Williams College in 1986 and earned his MBA from St

James Dinan

Firm: York Capital Management City: New York 2008 Age: 48 2008 Assets Under Management: $16 Billion Dinan grew up in Worcester, MA. He graduated with a degree in economics from the University of Pennsylvania and received his MBA from Harvard. He started his career working as an investment banker at