The Street – Nowadays readers have access to Websites that track the daily changes in billionaires’ wealth. We wanted to track the performance of billionaires’ top stock picks. By looking at our Billionaire Hedge Fund Index , investors may be able to decide whether it makes sense to imitate billionaires’ stock picks without paying them hefty fees.
Warren Buffett , George Soros , John Paulson , Jim Simons , David Einhorn , Ray Dalio , and T. Boone Pickens are among the 39 billionaires we’re tracking. Billionaire fund managers’ top 30 stock picks returned 16.7% in 2012 as of March 16, vs. 12.3% gain in the S&P 500 ETF(SPY_).