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Here’s is a list of largest hedge funds in the world. The largest hedge funds in the world are ranked according to the amount of capital they have in management.

List of Top 10 Largest hedge Funds in The World

1. Ray Dalios Bridgewater Associates. Under $94 billion in management. World’s biggest hedge fund.
2. J.P. Morgan Asset Management. $54.2 billion under management.
3. Man Investments. $40.6 billion.
4. Paulson & Co. $35.8 billion. Controlled by the famous John Paulson!
5. Breven Howard. $32 billion. a British-based hedge fund manager that is the largest in Europe. The fund, co-founded by Alan Howard and Jean-Philippe
6. Soros Fund Management. $27.9 billion. George Soros is no longer at the controls of the day to day operations.
7. Och-Ziff Capital Management. $27.6 billion. This hedge fund is listed in NYSE.
8. Black Rock. $25 billion under management
9. BlueCrest Capital Management – $24.5 billion.
10. Angelo, Gordon, & Co – $23.6 billion.

Note . Hedge funds move up and down. A Hedge fund may be on the list now but may drop tomorrow due to bad performance.

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George Soros is retiring from hedge funding business. The billionaire hedge fund manager is returning money to outside investors in his $25.5 billion firm, ending a career as hedge-fund manager that spanned more than four decades.

Soros, will hand back the money, less than $1 billion, by the end of the year. His firm will focus on managing assets solely for Soros and his family, according to a letter to investors.

George Soros Reason for Retiring

George Soros’s sons said they took the decision because new financial regulations would have made it necessary for the firm to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission by March 2012 if it continued to manage money for outsiders.

George Soros legacy

Soro’s will forever be remembered a speculator, who in 1992 made $1 billion betting that the Bank of England would be forced to devalue the pound.

In the last 30 years, he’s given away more than $8 billion to promote democracy, foster free speech, improve education and fight poverty around the world.

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The surprise news of the week was Hedge  Fund manager, David Einhorn is purchasing a non-controlling stake in the Mets for $200 million. The decision has some investors wondering whether he sees an angle no one else discovered.

Some smart people on Wall Street have already looked at the Mets’ books and walked away. Even The Mets, principal owners have said the mets as a business are lousy, snakebitten and bleeding cash, having lost $50 million last year alone.

Yet Mr. Einhorn is forking out $200m! This is not the first time Einhorn has thought outside the box. He Famously made money when he bet against Lehman Brothers’ stock several months before the famed brokerage collapsed.

His he right? Only time will tell.

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An interesting list for 2011 is the ranking of top ten hedge funds manager. It is a list of largest generator of profits for investors among hedge funds. The ranking calculates how much profits a hedge fund manager has generated since he opened for business.

This is the list of top ten hedge fund managers as December 2010.

1. George Soros – $35.2 billion

2. John Paulson – $32.2 billion

3. Ray Dalio’s of Bridgewater Pure Alpha -$22 billion

4. Seth Klarman of Baupost Group’s – $15.6 billion

5. David Tepper of Appaloosa – $14.5 billion

6. Bruce Kovner’s of Caxton – $13.1 billion.

7. Moore Capital Management Partners – $13 billion

8. Brevan Howard Fund – $12.5 billion

9. Farallon Capital – $12.2 billion.

10. Ed Lampert’s ESL Partners – $12 billion

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When Soros said Gold was a bubble, we thought the hedge fund manager was going to start shorting Gold but the money manager seems to have done the opposite. According to Soros Fund Management’s 13F filing for Quarter ending Dec 2010 it reveals that the money management firm continues to bet on gold.

George Soro Top Five Holdings

SPDR Gold Shares – 13% of portfolio

InterOil – 6% of portfolio

Monsanto – 5% of portfolio

Delta Airlines – 4% of Portfolio

Nova Gold Resources – 4% of portfolio

In George Soros complete filing it shows the man holds over 800 stocks. Diversified across technology stocks, financial stocks, ETF stocks, health care stocks, telecommunication stocks, & industrial stocks. See a complete list at Guru Stocks.

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Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson will forever be remembered for $4 billions he made in 2007. When the housing market was burning the money manager was making billions.

The latest news is John Paulson did it again by earning an estimated $5 billion in 2010 thanks mainly to bets the economy would recover. This is better than the $4 billion haul made off the subprime bet.

How John Paulson Makes Money

John Paulson runs his own hedge fund investment firm, Paulson & Co. Inc. (PCI). It is an employee owned hedge fund sponsor, primarily providing services to pooled investment vehicles. He is earns money through commissions on funds under management plus a share of profits.

John Paulson Investing Strategy

The firm manages separate client-focused portfolios, employing merger arbitrage, long/short, and event-driven strategy to make its investments. Paulson & Co. Inc. utilizes fundamental analysis to make its investments, benchmarking the performance of its investments against the S&P 500 Index.

John Paulson Investment Philosophy

In a Wallstreet Journal interview this is how he summarizes his investment philosophy: “The flexibility of having long and short exposure across the capital structure allows us to optimize performance across market cycles. Our goals are capital preservation, above average returns over the long term, and low correlation to the markets.” As the market recovers from its shortfalls of the past years, Paulson is betting on strong economic growth in the recovery: “it is time to be in the stock market,” he says, and that now is not the time “to be under-invested”.

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Paul Tudor Jones is a billionaire hedge fund manager. According to Forbes rich list his wealth is estimated at $6.5 billion. He is the founder of Tudor Investment Corporation, based in Greenwich, Connecticut

Jones is best known for foreseeing and predicting the Black Monday stock market crash in 1987. During this event he reportedly made between $80 million and $100 million.

Paul Tudor Jones Bets

Jones invests mainly via ETF and he is currently betting long on emerging markets, China, Russia.

He has position in iShares MSCI Emerging Markets Index ETF, iShares FTSE/Xinhua China 25 Index ETF and Market Vectors Russia ETF Trust.

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Jim Simon is a hedge fund manager with Renaissance Technologies. A.K.A as “Quants”  Traders with PHds and rely on complex mathematics in making money.

When they came to the scene with their mathematical models for investing it seemed they had found the answer to the age old question “Is there a perfect formula to make money in the stock market?”

From a NYT article:-

Mr. Simons was celebrated as the King of the Quants after his in-house fund, Medallion, posted an average return of nearly 39 percent a year, after fees, from 2000 to 2007. It was an astonishing run rivaling some of the greatest feats in investing history.

With those kind of results it was easy for investors to get carried away with the idea that Jim Simon and the rest of Quants family were the messiahs.

Past results is not an indicator of future performance.

After the collapse of Bear Sterns and Credit crises most Quant funds are fighting for their own survival. The NYT article further reported : -

The combined assets of quantitative funds specializing in United States stocks have plunged to $467 billion, from $1.2 trillion in 2007, a 61 percent decline. And One in four quant hedge funds has closed since 2007

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The latest news on Cocoa prices is Cocoa prices on London market are at 30 year high, and cocoa has already jumped 150 percent since 2008.

So what is driving this upward trend in cocoa prices?

According to an interesting piece in NYT.

In a stroke, a hedge fund manager here named Anthony Ward has all but cornered the market in cocoa. By one estimate, he has bought enough to make more than five billion chocolate bars.

Mr. Ward purchases have created a shortage of cocoa in the market and rival traders are crying foul, saying Mr. Ward is stockpiling cocoa in a bid to drive up already high prices so he can sell later at a big profit.

If the next cocoa harvest falls below expectation we should expect the prices of cocoa to shoot even higher.

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Another word for financial crisis is making money. Because during financial crisis clever investors roam like vultures looking for opportunity to make money.

History of Making Money In a Financial Crisis

Back in the early 1990? George Soros pounced on British financial crisis, shorting the British pound and walking away with a cool US$ 1 Billion in the process. In the late 90′s he rode the Asian crisis all the way to the bank. The then malaysian Prime Minister referred Soros as “A Criminal”

When the US housing market crashed back in 2007 many sub prime moergage borrowers were crying but one hedge fund manager was having a laugh. John Paulson a hedge fund manager in New York had bet against the sub prime market and made billions.

The two above investors made money by shorting the market. Talk to your financial advisor and see how you to can profit from fianancial crisis.

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