{"id":7270,"date":"2008-03-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-07T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"heads-of-hedge-funds-among-worlds-richest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/03\/2008\/heads-of-hedge-funds-among-worlds-richest.html","title":{"rendered":"Heads of Hedge Funds Among World&#8217;s Richest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>West Palm Beach (HedgeCo.Net) &#8211; The coveted list is here!  Forbes magazine has named the World&#8217;s Richest, with 1,125 billionaires making the list&#8230; the most ever.  Warren Buffet took the title of World&#8217;s Richest Man, with a fortune of $62 billion.  Bill Gates was dethroned for the first time in 13 years, with assets equaling $58 billion.  <\/p>\n<p>Not surprisingly, hedge fund gurus are intertwined throughout the list, from Quantum Hedge Fund founder George Soros, worth $9 billion, to Clinton contributor Marc Lasry of Avenue Capital, worth $1.5 billion.  <\/p>\n<p>Not quite at Soros status, Steven Cohen of Greenwich, CT, is estimated to be worth $6.8 billion.  He started his fund, SAC Capital in 1992 with $25 million in assets.  Today, his 9 funds manage around $14 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Also based in Greenwich are Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates and Paul Tudor Jones III of Tudor Investment Corp.  Dalio started his hedge fund in 1975, and now manages $150 billion in assets, contributing to his $4 billion personal fortune.  Tudor Jones launched his fund in 1980, and made millions when he predicted the stock market crash in 1987.<\/p>\n<p>James Simons comes in at $5.5 billion, thanks to his hedge fund, Renaissance Technologies.  He believes in high fees and high returns.  His management fee is 5%, while his performance fee is 44%.  This is far above the normal rate of 2\/20, but investors in his fund don&#8217;t seem to mind.  <\/p>\n<p>Daniel Och of the famous Och-Ziff hedge fund is sitting pretty on the list with a net worth of $3.6 billion.  He started his hedge fund with a $100 million initial investment from the 3 Ziff brothers (who also made the list), and now manages $33 billion.  <\/p>\n<p>Tied at $3.5 billion are Bruce Kovner of Caxton Global Investments and Stanley Druckenmiller of Duquesne Captial Management.  Druckenmiller was the right hand man of Soros when they &ldquo;broke&rdquo; the British pound in 1992.  Kovner started his fund in 1983, and has since netted returns of 25% annually. <\/p>\n<p>Also making the cut are David Shaw of D.E. Shaw &amp; Co. and David Tepper of Appaloosa Management.  Both men have amassed fortunes of $2 billion.  Louis Bacon of Moore Capital and Philip Falcone of Harbinger Captial Partners are each worth $1.7 billion. <\/p>\n<p>John Arnold, 34, made the list of this years youngest billionaires.  Arnold formerly traded oil for Enron.  He now runs the hedge fund Centaurus Energy, and is worth an estimated $1.5 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Julie Scuderi<br \/>Senior Editor for HedgeCo.Net<br \/>Email: julie@hedgeco.net] <\/p>\n<p>HedgeCo.Net is a premier hedge fund database and community for qualified and accredited investors only. Membership on <a target=\"_self\" href=\"..\/news\/02\/news\/02\/news\/02\/news\/02\/news\/02\/news\/01\/\">www.hedgeco.net<\/a> is FREE and EASY. 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Warren Buffet took the title of World&#8217;s Richest Man, with a fortune of $62 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7270\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}