Firm: Citadel Investment GroupCity: Chicago2008 Age: 402008 Assets Under Management: $20 Billion Self made billionaire Ken Griffin is the managing director and CEO of Citadel Investment Group, one of the largest hedge funds in the world. Griffin was born in Daytona Beach, Florida and lived in Texas and Wisconsin as a child. He returned to
Firm: The Children’s Investment FundCity: London2008 Age: 412008 Assets Under Management: $11 Billion Originally from Addlestone, Surrey, Chris Hohn is the son of car mechanic who emigrated to Britain from Jamaica in 1960. Hohn graduated from Southampton University and went on to get his MBA ar Harvard, graduating in the top 5% of his class.
Firm: Brevan Howard Asset ManagementCity: London2008 Age: 442008 Assets Under Management: $22 Billion Alan Howard was formerly head of proprietary trading at Credit Suisse First Boston. In 2003 Howard founded his fixed-income focused hedge fund, Brevan Howard Asset Management. Howard’s success contradicts the popular idea that bank prop traders struggle going out on their own.
Importance: High.Published by: Bank of Japan.Frequency: Quarterly.Release Time: 8:50 AM Local Time. Results are published in early April, July and October and also in mid-December.Revisions: Rare. Produced by the Japan’s central bank, the Tankan Survey measures business confidence in Japan. The results can provide some insight into upcoming monetary policy and interest rates. The report
The term global macro is used to describe a trading strategy used by various hedge funds. Hedge Funds using the global macro strategy take positions in on the basis of macroeconomic forecasts and analysis in a global context. Global macro analysis covers areas such as interest rates, government policies and inter-government relations. An example of