List of hedge funds

The following are several lists of notable hedge funds and hedge funds firms based on criteria laid out in each list.

LHC Top Ten Hedge Funds Ranking

Ray Dalio has overtaken George Soros as the world’s most profitable hedge fund manager. Dalio’s Pure Alpha hedge fund made $13.8 billion last year, while Paulson & Co. lost $9.6 billion last year, more than was lost in the collapse of Long Term Capital Management in 1998.^[1]

Soros’ return has been frozen as he no longer manages investor funds. LHC Ranking exclude computer-driven funds such as Renaissance Technologies, or those with no central investment manager, such as DE Shaw. LCH Investments, part of the Edmund de Rothschild group, assesses hedge funds by how much they have made over their lifetimes for investors in dollars.^[1]

Rank	Hedge Fund	Net Gains (after fees) since inception to Dec. 31 2011 (billions of USD)	Year Founded
1.	Bridgewater Pure Alpha	$35.8	1975
2.	Quantum Endowment Fund	$31.2	1973
3.	Paulson & Co.	$22.6	1994
4.	Baupost	$16.0	1983
5.	Brevan Howard	$15.7	2003
6.	Appaloosa	$13.7	1993
7.	Caxton Global	$13.1	1983
8.	Moore Capital	$12.7	1990
9.	Farallon	$12.2	1987
10.	Point72 Asset Management	$12.2	1992

Largest hedge fund firms

The following is a ranking of the largest hedge fund firms in the world by assets under management (AUM). The data is provided by Bloomberg Markets Magazine.^[2]

Rank Firm Headquarters AUM as of Oct. 31 2011 (billions of USD) 1 Bridgewater Associates Westport, CT $77.6 2 Man Group London $64.5 3 J.P. Morgan Asset Management New York $46.6 4 Brevan Howard Asset Management London $36.6 5 Och-Ziff Capital Management Group New York $28.5 6 Paulson & Co. New York $28.0 7 BlackRock Advisors New York $27.7 8 Winton Capital Management London $27.0 9 Highbridge Capital Management New York $26.1 10 BlueCrest Capital Management London $25.0 11 Baupost Group Boston $23.0 12 Cerberus Capital Management New York $23.0 13 D.E. Shaw & Co. New York $23.0 14 Angelo Gordon Co. New York $22.0 15 AQR Capital Management Greenwich, CT $20.5 16 Two Sigma Investments New York $20.0 16 Farallon Capital Management San Francisco $20.0 17 Goldman Sachs Assets Management New York $19.5 18 Elliott Management New York $19.0 19 King Street Capital Management New York $18.5 20 Canyon Partners Los Angeles $18.1 21 Pershing Square Capital Management New York $14.5 22 Shangari Holdings LLC Washington D.C. $11.2

See also

• List of private equity firms

References

1. Dalio takes hedge crown from Soros, Financial Times, February 28, 2012.
2. The World's 100 richest Hedge Funds, Bloomberg Markets, January 10, 2012.