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
Firm: Och-Ziff CapitalCity: New York2008 Age: 472008 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 Unit of Goldman Sachs under Robert Rubin. He spent
Firm: Bramdean Asset ManagementCity: London2008 Age: 472008 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 Asset Management (SGAM). Horlick is currently Chief Executive Officer of Bramdean
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 traded, but beginning in 1710 a futures market
Firm: Shumway Capital PartnersCity: Greenwich, Connecticut2008 Age: 422008 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.