{"id":40958,"date":"2014-03-04T07:41:46","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T12:41:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=40958"},"modified":"2014-03-04T08:07:43","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:07:43","slug":"new-hedge-fund-managers-join-forbes-billionaire-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2014\/new-hedge-fund-managers-join-forbes-billionaire-list.html","title":{"rendered":"New Hedge Fund Managers Join Forbes’ Billionaire List"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The new Forbes billionaire list<\/a> reports that there are now 46 hedge fund billionaires on the list, with 6 of them newcomers.<\/p>\n

Michael Platt of BlueCrest Capital\u00a0Management\u00a0joins the ranks of new hedge fund billionaires; as well as\u00a0Francis Biondi and Brian Higgins, co-founders of King Street Capital Management;\u00a0Christopher Hohn of the Children\u2019s Investment Fund;\u00a0Larry Robbins, founder of Glenview Capital Management; and Robert Citrone, manager at Discovery Capital Management.<\/p>\n

A record number of women also made it into the Forbes 28th annual billionaires’ list, making up 10% of the global super-rich. 172 women, 25% more than in 2013, are now in the club of billionaires.<\/p>\n

\"George<\/a>The top 5 hedge fund managers are:<\/strong><\/p>\n

1. George Soros
\nNet worth: $23 billion.
\n2. Ray Dalio
\nNet worth: $14.4 billion.
\n3. John Paulson
\nNet worth: $13.5 billion.
\n4. James Simons
\nNet worth: $12.5 billion.
\n5. Steve Cohen
\nNet worth: $11 billion.<\/p>\n

Full list<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The ranks of the world\u2019s billionaires have swelled to a record 1,645 including 268 newcomers. While wealth spreads to new corners of the world, including for the first time places like Tanzania and Lithuania, the U.S. still dominates with Bill Gates back on top after a four-year hiatus and Facebook\u2019s Mark Zuckerberg the year\u2019s biggest gainer.\"Screenshot<\/a>Gates\u00a0reclaimed his crown as the world’s richest man, after a surge in the value of\u00a0Microsoft\u00a0shares increased his wealth by $9bn to $76bn. Mexican telecoms mogul Carlos Slim, who held the title for the previous four years, was nudged into second place with a fortune of $72bn. The Spanish clothing tycoon Amancio Ortega, behind fast fashion chainZara, stayed in third place, extending his lead over investor Warren Buffett at four.<\/p>\n

Alex Akesson
\nEditor for\u00a0HedgeCo.net<\/a>
\nalex@hedgeco.net<\/a>
\nHedgeCo.Net<\/a>\u00a0is a premier\u00a0hedge fund database<\/a>\u00a0and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership in\u00a0HedgeCo.net<\/a>\u00a0is FREE and EASY. We also offer FREE LISTINGS for\u00a0Hedge Funds<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New York (HedgeCo.Net) – The new Forbes billionaire list reports that there are now 46 hedge fund billionaires on the list, with 6 of them newcomers. Michael Platt of BlueCrest Capital\u00a0Management\u00a0joins the ranks of new hedge fund billionaires; as well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16020],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedgeco-news","category-people-moves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40958"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40973,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40958\/revisions\/40973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}