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Only a literal handful of Wall Street hedge funds weren’t caught short by the housing bubble of the 2000s. One of the most notable billionaires who not only sidestepped the sector’s implosion,...
Billionaire Dan Loeb founded his hedge fund, Third Point LLC, in 1995. As of September 30, WhaleWisdom.com reports that it manages $7.4 billion in publicly traded securities.  Investors are always...
If there is one thing investors know about billionaire investor Bill Ackman, he doesn’t do half measures. The hedge fund manager likes to make big bets on companies and his Pershing Square Capital...
Bill Ackman made news recently when Fortune reported that he might play a part in Elon Musk and Vivek Ramaswamy’s Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, the committee tasked with cutting...
Mark Cuban is a world-famous investor known for his time as a Shark Tank personality and many of his entrepreneurial ventures which led to his ownership of the Dallas Mavericks of the NBA. Cuban just...
Bruce Berkowitz is among the most prominent hedge fund managers, known for his focus on concentration at his Fairholme Capital management fund. This concentrated strategy has been influenced by the...
Chamath Palihapitiya is a prominent venture capitalist, engineer, and entrepreneur known for his significant contributions to the tech sector. Venture capitalists were certainly among the top...
Billionaire money manager Mario Gabelli is a noted value investor in the tradition of Graham and Dodd and renowned for his research-driven equity investment style. His Gamco Investors hedge fund has...
John Paulson is among the most well-known billionaires, famous for his long-term investing returns via his hedge fund Paulson & Co. The hedge fund manager has concentrated his portfolio in...
The best investment billionaire John Paulson ever made was a bet against something. He famously predicted the collapse of the U.S. housing market and made a $20 billion profit doing so. Today,...
David Elliot Shaw was known for his elusive investment strategies, rooted in his computer science background. His time as a Columbia University professor likely shaped his quantitative trading...
Although perhaps not as well-known amongst investors as some of his peers, Leon Cooperman is a towering presence on Wall Street. The billionaire investor started from humble beginnings as the son of...
Jim Simons was a mathematician-turned-investor who built Renaissance Technologies into the world’s second-largest hedge fund. Although Simons died earlier this year at age 86, it is still possible...
Since Bridgewater Associates founding in 1975, Ray Dalio has grown the investment firm into the world’s largest hedge fund with over $124 billion in assets under management (AUM). With nearly 900...