Firm: TPG-Axon CapitalCity: New York2008 Age: 392008 Assets Under Management: $13 Billion Dinakar Singh founded TPG- Axon Capital in late 2004, in partnership with private equity firm Texas Pacific Group – launching with $5 billion in capital. TPG-Axon currently has some 75 researchers spread across the globe analyzing international markets. The fund participates in both
Firm: Appaloosa ManagementCity: Chatham, New Jersey2008 Age: 502008 Assets Under Management (AUM): $4 Billion David Tepper founded Appaloosa Management in 1993. Tepper graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a BA in economics and earned an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University’s Business School. Tepper worked for eight years on the high-yield desk at Goldman Sachs
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
The Chicago Board of Trade (CBOT) is a leading futures and options on futures exchange. Established in 1848, it is the world’s oldest derivatives exchange. The CBOT initially traded only agricultural commodities such as corn, wheat, oats and soybeans. Futures contracts at the exchange evolved over the years to include non-storable agricultural commodities and non-agricultural