Firm: BP Capital ManagementCity: Dallas2008 Age: 792008 Assets Under Management: $5 Billion Born in 1928, Thomas Boone Pickens, Jr. is chairman of the hedge fund BP Capital Management (BP standing for Boone Pickens). His father worked as an oil and mineral land man. Pickens attended Texas A&M on a basketball scholarship but transferred to Oklahoma
Firm: Duquesne CapitalCity: New York2008 Age: 552008 Assets Under Management: $10 Billion Druckenmiller graduated from from Bowdoin College in 1975 where he studied English and Economics. He went on to begin a Ph.D. at the University of Michigan but decided leave the program to take a job as a stock analyst for Pittsburgh National Bank.
Firm: Tudor Investment Corp.City: Greenwich, Connecticut2008 Age: 532008 Assets Under Management: $18 Billion Memphis born hedge fund manager Paul Tudor Jones graduated from the University of Virginia with a degree in economics in 1976. Tudor Jones went on to work for Eli Tullis, a successful cotton speculator at the New York Cotton Exchange. In 1980
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.