Tuesday, September 8, 2009

Largest Hedge Funds Revealed: Bridgewater, Highbridge Capital, Paulson & Co, D.E. Shaw and Soros

AR Magazine recently released its list of largest hedge fund managers as well as its “Hedge Fund Report Cards.” The top five hedge funds by assets under management were Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates ($37bn), JPMorgan/Highbridge Capital Management ($36bn), John Paulson’s Paulson & Co ($27bn), David Shaw’s D.E. Shaw & Co. ($26 bn) and George Soros’ Soros Fund Management
($24bn).

Some other notables on the list were:
- Jim Simons’s Renaissance Technologies Corporation
($17bn)
- Daniel Och’s Och-Ziff Capital Management ($20.7bn)
- Seth A. Klarman’s Baupost Group ($19bn)
- Farallon Capital Management ($18bn)


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