Hedge Fund

Alternative ETFs Offer More Ways to Profit

Whether you’re investing in stock exchange traded funds (ETFs), bond ETFs, commodity ETFs, currency ETFs, international ETFs, or even inverse ETFs, you’re stuck with one big problem: Any way you look at it, you are making a one-sided bet on the future direction of a specific market segme

Phil Falcone

The youngest of nine siblings, Phil Falcone was an avid and formidable hockey player as a youth in his hometown of Chisholm, Minnesota. He went on to play hockey for Harvard University, where he graduated with a BA in economics in 1984. Falcone began his career in 1985, trading high yield and distre

Noam Gottesman

Firm: GLG Partners City: London 2008 Age: 46 2008 Assets Under Management: $30 Billion Noam Gottesman is one of the three founders of GLG Partners, a London based hedge fund. The fund was founded by Noam Gottesman, Pierre Lagrange and Jonathan Green. The three, whose last names make up the name G

Top Hedge Fund Managers

John Paulson- Paulson and Co. Inc. Jim Simons – Renaissance Technologies Ken Griffin – Citadel Investment Group Dan Loeb – Third Point Management T. Boone Pickens – BP Capital Management Paul Tudor Jones – Tudor Investment Corp. Chris Hohn – The Children’s I

Daniel Loeb

Firm: Third Point Management City: New York 2008 Age: 46 Loeb grew up in Santa Monica Canyon in California. One of three children, his father was an attorney and his mother a historian. An astute trader from a young age, Loeb was already trading stocks in high school. After spending two years at the

Tim Barakett

Firm: Atticus Capital City: New York 2008 Age: 42 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $17.5 Billion Atticus Capital was founded in 1995 by Timothy Barakett and Nathaniel Rothschild. Barakett played hockey for Harvard University and was a first round pick in the 1986 NHL draft – but turned down

Eddie Lampert

Firm: ESL Investments City: Greenwich, Connecticut 2008 Age: 46 Edward S. “Eddie” Lampert is the founder of ESL Investments. Lampert graduated from Yale University in 1984 with a degree in economics. While at Yale he worked as a research assistant for Professor James Tobin, a Nobel Prize

Richard Perry

Firm: Perry Capital City: New York 2008 Age: 53 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $15 Billion Richard Perry received a BS from the University of University of Pennsylvania, and earned an MBA from New York University’s Stern School of Business. Like Dan Och and Eddie Lampert, Richard Perry wo

Ray Dalio

Firm: Bridgewater Associates City: Westport, Connecticut 2008 Age: 58 2008 Assets Under Management: $160 Billion Ray Dalio is rumoured to have started trading at the age of 12. Having gained experience in futures and commodities at firms including Merrill Lynch, Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates

Load

Load refers to a fee charged for buying into or selling out of a fund. See also: Exchange Traded Fund, Hedge Fund