Profiles

David Kyte

David Kyte began his career on the trading floor as a blue button on the London Stock Exchange. He then became a Stock Exchange dealer. The news of the opening of the LIFFE exchange caught Kyte’s interest and he landed a job on the trading floor. Kyte began his career on the floor of LIFFE act

Dan Och

Firm: Och-Ziff Capital City: New York 2008 Age: 47 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $33 Billion Och graduated with a B.S. in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Like fellow hedge fund managers Eddie Lampert and Richard Perry – Och worked in the Risk Arbitrage

Nicola Horlick

Firm: Bramdean Asset Management City: London 2008 Age: 47 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): £7 Billion Nicola Horlick established her reputation in the early 1990′s at Morgan Grenfell Investment Management. In 1997 she teamed up with Keith Percy and assumed the role of Chief Executive of SG

Nassim Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Talebis an options trader, philosopher and author of The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007) and Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (2008).

Munehisa Homma

Munehisa Homma (1724-1803), also referred to as Sokyu Homma or Sokyu Honma, was a wealthy rice merchant from Sakata, Japan who lived during during the Tokugawa Shogonate. The Dojima Rice Exchange of Osaka, established in 1697 was the worlds first futures exchange. Initially, only physical rice was t

Chris Shumway

Firm: Shumway Capital Partners City: Greenwich, Connecticut 2008 Age: 42 2008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $6 Billion+ Chris Shumway, a protégé of hedge fund pioneer Julian Robertson at Tiger Managment, founded Shumway Capital Partners in 2002. See also: Top Hedge Fund Managers, Interviews w

Martin Zweig

Martin Zweig was born in 1942 in Cleveland, Ohio.

Chase Coleman

Firm: Tiger Global Management City: New York 2008 Age: 33 2008 Assets Under Management: $5 Billion A direct descendant of Peter Stuyvesant, Charles Payson ‘Chase’ Coleman III graduated from Williams College. Coleman is the founder and managing partner of New York based Tiger Global Manag

Martin Pring

Martin Pring is a notable technical analyst and trading educator. He is the author of Technical Analysis Explained : The Successful Investor’s Guide to Spotting Investment Trends and Turning Points (2002) Pring on Price Patterns : The Definitive Guide to Price Pattern Analysis and Intrepretati

Charles DiFrancesca

Charlie D  (Charles DiFrancesca) was a legendary trader in the Treasury Bond Pit at the Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT). In addition to being one of the greatest traders of his generation, Charlie D was known as being larger than life and a true philanthropist. Tragically, Charlie D was afflicted wit