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The 40 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers And Traders
In 2012, prominent hedge fund managers made headlines by successfully trading against JPMorgan Chase & Co., spending lots of money to influence the U.S. presidential election, and proclaiming that a nutritional supplements company was operating a pyramid scheme. While they made plenty of noise, very few of these traders managed to beat the U.S. stock market after charging their investors rich fees.
But in northern New Jersey, David Tepper had another extremely strong year. The founder and head of Appaloosa Management guided his flagship hedge fund to net returns of nearly 30%. Tepper personally made an estimated $2.2 billion in 2012, topping Forbes’ list of the 40 highest-earning hedge fund managers and traders.
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After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls The Levers Of Power
Link to article: After Big Bet, Hedge Fund Pulls the Levers of PowerAt a Midtown Manhattan steakhouse last June, William A. Ackman, the activist hedge fund manager who had bet a billion dollars on the collapse of the nutritional supplement company Herbalife,...
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Hedge Fund Mogul At Risk Of A Short Squeeze On Herbalife
Found via the Corner of Berkshire & Fairfax. Hedge fund titan Bill Ackman had an easy time vanquishing the sclerotic board of Canadian Pacific Railway last year. He’s now in an even more fascinating bare-knuckles fight, this time with Herbalife...
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Street Of Walls Q1 Report On Hedge Fund Positions
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Dalio Tops Hedge Fund Pay List With $3.9bn
Ray Dalio, head of Bridgewater, the world’s largest hedge fund, personally made $3.9bn in a year that his $70bn Pure Alpha fund produced $13.8bn of investment profits for its investors, according to industry rankings. He tops a list published Friday...
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Street Of Walls Q3 Report On Hedge Fund Positions
The Street of Walls Hedge Fund Team has compiled a FREE 60 page report on hedge fund holdings. We have compiled data from 13F SEC filings in order to analyze how the top hedge fund managers have made changes to their portfolios. We analyzed top hedge...
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