Firm: Glenview CapitalCity: New York2008 Age: 382008 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. Robbins achieved a return of over 30% for 2007.
Julian Hart Robinson, Jr. was born in Salisbury, North Carolina in 1932. He graduated from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1955 with a degree in business administration. Robertson served as an officer in the Navy and went on to become a stockbroker at Kidder Peabody. He later became the head of the
Bill Lipschutz is a celebrated foreign exchange trader and co-founder and Director of Portfolio Management at Hathersage Capital Management. Lipschutz received a BFA in Architectural Design from Cornell University and a MBA in Finance from the Johnson School of Management at Cornell University. Lipschutz joined Salomon Brothers in May 1982 as one of the original
Firm: Pershing Square Capital ManagementCity: New York2008 Age: 412008 Assets Under Management: $6 Billion William ‘Bill’ Ackman graduated from Harvard University in 1988 and received his MBA from Harvard Business School in 1992. Ackman co-founded Gotham Partners in 1992 with David Berkowitz. He went on to founded Pershing Square in 2003. Pershing Square is an
Firm: Cheyne CapitalCity: London2008 Age: 462008 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 Stuart Fiertz, Lourie founded London based Cheyne Capital in