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Profiles: Kenneth C. Griffin

TradersLog — Mon, 23 May 2011 15:26:09 +0000

Name: Kenneth C. Griffin Born: Daytona Beach, Florida in 1968. Affiliation: Citadel LLC (formerly known as Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C.) Kenneth C. Griffin is one of world’s top ranked hedge fund managers. He is the founder and CEO of Citadel, a Chicago based investment firm. Citadel is ranke

Richard Driehaus Profile

TradersLog — Tue, 03 May 2011 19:20:49 +0000

Born: Chicago, Illinois in 1942 Affiliations: Driehaus Mutual Funds, AGF Investments Inc, VAM Funds Most Famous For: Richard Driehaus is famous as founder of Driehaus Capital Management which produced compounded annual return in excess of 30% net of all fees over 12 years. In the year 2000, Dri

Paul Tudor Jones Profile

TradersLog — Tue, 03 May 2011 13:01:27 +0000

By Jonathan Yates Counterpunching is the key to success for legendary investor Paul Tudor Jones II, founder of the hedge funds group, Tudor Investment Corporation. A former welterweight boxing champion in college at the University of Virginia, like any seasoned master of the sweet science, the inves

David Tepper Profile

TradersLog — Mon, 02 May 2011 17:08:03 +0000

By Alan Dessoff Born: Pittsburgh, Pa., in 1957 Affiliations: Appaloosa Management Most Famous for: David Alan Tepper bets big and wins big on big banks and stocks. Appaloosa Management, the Chatham, N.J. fund he founded and manages, held more than $1.2 billion combined in the four biggest U.S. ban

Alternative ETFs Offer More Ways to Profit

Ron Rowland — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 15:22:04 +0000

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

TradersLog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:57:57 +0000

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

TradersLog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:57:56 +0000

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

TradersLog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:57:46 +0000

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

TradersLog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:56:49 +0000

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

TradersLog — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:55:26 +0000

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