| Bridgewater Associates | 1 |
| JPMorgan | 2 |
| Paulson & Co. | 3 |
| D. E. Shaw | 4 |
| Brevan Howard | 5 |
| Och-Ziff Capital Management | 6 |
| Man AHL | 7 |
| Soros Fund Management | 8 |
| Goldman Sachs | 9 |
| Renaissance Technologies | 10 |
Showing posts with label hedge funds. Show all posts
Showing posts with label hedge funds. Show all posts
May 10, 2009
Top 10 Hedge fund management firms by assets under management
Hedge Fund Industry size falls sharply in last one year
From a peak of 1.93 trillion dollars in mid of 2008, the hedge fund industry size is reduced to merely 1.33 trillion dollars owing to the credit crunch and macro-economic situation.
The 'Funds of funds' industry has also come down sharply from 825 billion dollars in mid 2008 to 525 billion dollars at the end of first quarter of 2009.
The fall in assets size is partly due to trading losses and partly due to investors pulling out money from these funds.
These are the data from Hedge Fund Research (HFR) as available on in the publicly available news articles across the internet. Due to the ambiguity of the breadth of the hedge fund and the voluntary nature of data disclosure these may be different from those published by other research firms.
The fall in assets size is partly due to trading losses and partly due to investors pulling out money from these funds.
These are the data from Hedge Fund Research (HFR) as available on in the publicly available news articles across the internet. Due to the ambiguity of the breadth of the hedge fund and the voluntary nature of data disclosure these may be different from those published by other research firms.
Dec 20, 2007
Top Fund of Fund company 2007
The top five fund of funds in June 2007, along with the firm's capital (million USD) as per the Alpha Magazine's ranking are:
| Rank | Financial Institution | Assets |
| 1 | UBS | 54749 |
| 2 | Man Investments | 50310 |
| 3 | Union Bancaire Privée | 45775 |
| 4 | Permal Asset Management | 35040 |
| 5 | HSBC | 33572 |
Source: Alpha
Top Hedge funds 2007 [Alpha Magazine]
The following ranking of the hedge funds by Alpha Magazine was published on May 2007. JP Morgan Asset Management leads the list with Goldman Sachs Asset Management a close second.
Source: Alpha
Nov 21, 2007
What are hedge funds?
Hedging means reducing risk of adverse price movements in a security generally by taking an offsetting position in a related security. So, essentially hedging leads to lower risks.
The term "hedge" was coined by the agriculture industry and farmers were the first "hedgers". They hedged the risk of losing their agricultural produce. Insurance is also a type of hedging method.
A Hedge Fund is fund which can take advantages of any of the hedging strategies, trade in any financial instrument, but produce above average gains at reduced risks. A hedge fund is genrally expected to have positive returns under all market conditions.
Timeline of Hedge Funds
In 1949: Alfred Jones started first hedge fund in the US
In 2005: USD 1 trillion industry with 9,000 Hedge Funds
Oct 2007: Hedge Funds: 2.5 trillion USD
By some estimates the size of Hedge Funds industry has crossed 3 trillion dollars. This is huge when we consider the fact that the total domestic market capitalization of all the stock markets of the world is less than 60 trillion dollars and that of NASDAQ is 4 trillion dollars.
The term "hedge" was coined by the agriculture industry and farmers were the first "hedgers". They hedged the risk of losing their agricultural produce. Insurance is also a type of hedging method.
A Hedge Fund is fund which can take advantages of any of the hedging strategies, trade in any financial instrument, but produce above average gains at reduced risks. A hedge fund is genrally expected to have positive returns under all market conditions.
Timeline of Hedge Funds
In 1949: Alfred Jones started first hedge fund in the US
In 2005: USD 1 trillion industry with 9,000 Hedge Funds
Oct 2007: Hedge Funds: 2.5 trillion USD
By some estimates the size of Hedge Funds industry has crossed 3 trillion dollars. This is huge when we consider the fact that the total domestic market capitalization of all the stock markets of the world is less than 60 trillion dollars and that of NASDAQ is 4 trillion dollars.
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