John Paulson is the president of New York based hedge fund Paulson and Co. Inc. He graduated from NYU and received his MBA from Harvard business school. Paulson gained experience at the hedge fund Odyssey Partners and he is also a former Bear Stearns investment banker. The merger-arbitrage hedge fund Paulson and Co. was launched
By Jonathan Yates 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, by far the greatest return earned from the first plunge into
Graham came to New York from England with his parents in 1895 and grew up in Manhattan and Brooklyn. He was the youngest of three boys. His father died when he was nine leaving the family economically challenged. Graham graduated from Columbia University in 1914 and then went to work as a messenger for the
Jimmy Cayne is the former CEO of Bear Stearns and world class bridge player. The son of a patent attorney, Cayne grew up in Evanston, IL and attended Purdue University. He left one semester shy of graduating to join the army.Cayne left an unsuccessful marriage in Chicago to move to New York in 1964. While
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, from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 at the age of 23. While at MIT he studied under renowned mathematicians Warren Ambrose and I.M. Singer. From 1961 to 1964,