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.
Larry Williams, a trading veteran of over 40 years, is the author of How I Made A Million Trading Commodities published in 1973. In 1987 he took $10,000 to $1.1 million in a highly publicized real time trading championship. Williams’ contributions to the world of technical analysis include his Williams %R, Williams’ Accumulation/Distribution and Ultimate
George Soros, born György Schwartz on August 12, 1930, in Budapest, Hungary, has become one of the most influential investors and philanthropists in modern history. His remarkable journey from Holocaust survivor to billionaire financier has made him both a financial legend and a polarizing figure in global politics. Early Life and Education Soros grew up
Sir John Marks Templeton was born in the small farming town of Winchester, Tennessee in 1912. The first person from his hometown to attend college, Templeton worked his way through Yale University along with the help of scholarships and graduated at the top of his class with a degree in economics. He then attended Oxford
Blair Hull received a BA in Mathematics from the University of California, Santa Barbara, went on to receive an MBA from Santa Clara University. He also graduated from the Harvard OPM Program. After graduating University, Hull spent 6 years in the military. Having read Edward O. Thorp’s Beat the Dealer, Hull headed for Las Vegas and