I really respect Bill Gross CFA, but I think the story of John Arnold from Centaurus Partners is impressive.. the guy went to a third tier school (Vanderbilt University), worked on the trading desk at Enron and now has a net worth of 3.5B according to wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Arnold
“he is credited with making three quarters of a billion dollars for Enron in 2001 and was rewarded with an $8 million bonus”
“When Enron collapsed in 2002, he founded Centaurus with his previous year’s bonus.”
“During the collapse of Amaranth Advisors, Centaurus is widely credited as being one of the major players on the other side of their position, and returning as much as 150% in 2005.”
PTJ, Jim Simons, and Steve Cohen (in that order).
Jim Chanos and Julian Robertson
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Yeah, Vandy, what a shit hole. Definitely a tier 3 school. I’m surprised that guy isn’t waiting tables or something, musta lucked out big time.
“I lost my wife to a margin call. Wives get mad when you come home and say, ‘Sweetheart, I lost the house today.’” - Dennis Gartman on trading mistakes
OP - you’re a moron re: Vanderbilt
My favorite would be Ray Dalio and Michael Burry (Vandy medical).
Cities teem with evil and decay, let’s give it a good shake and see what falls out!!
David Einhorn on the HF side. Berkowitz and Yacktman on the MF side.
Edit: You guys should lay off OP. He’s Dutch. They have a 27 tier ranking system so third tier is pretty impressive.
Paul Tudor Jones.
Ed Seykota too. But none of the turtles.
I like George Soros, Julian Robertson, Peter Lynch, William Eckhardt, Jeremy Grantham. I respect Bill Gross and John Hussman too. I like Ray Dalio, but am concerned that he runs a cult. Jim Simons impresses me, but I actually don’t know anything about how he does what he does.
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Clearly I am more familiar with mutual fund people. I like reading things from whatever hedge fund managers commentary is public or on Market Folly. Howard Marks is great.
I am also concerned about Dalio’s cult. He reminds me of someone who would be a client of Al Pacino’s firm from Devil’s Advocate.
How about Warren Buffett? I heard he was alright.
Not flashy enough. Success is meaningless without flash.
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“I lost my wife to a margin call. Wives get mad when you come home and say, ‘Sweetheart, I lost the house today.’” - Dennis Gartman on trading mistakes
..also John Merriwether because he is, imo, the representation of all that is finance.
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I love Grantham for market color. Buffet and Munger are obviously all stars but the advantage of a capital stream from insurance gives them a lot of edge.
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Wikipedia:
Observers have been wondering how Renaissance’s in-house Medallion Fund has managed to continue to outperform the stock market handily while funds open to outside investors have performed miserably. The violation could be related to the Nova Fund, a hedge fund that had very high returns which was mysteriously subsumed by the internal Medallion Fund.[16]
The Stony Brook University Foundation, whose chairman emeritus is James Simons, lost $5.4 million in Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme. Stony Brook invested money with Madoff through managed accounts since 1991. Simons encouraged the 24,000-student school to invest with Mr. Madoff while Mr. Simons was chairman of the Stony Brook Foundation. He helped introduce the college to Bernard Madoff.
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Are Bill Ruane and Ken Fisher really legitimately good investors? I heard that Ruane was lucky to hit on a few big picks while Fisher is really capitalizing of dad’s name…
Cities teem with evil and decay, let’s give it a good shake and see what falls out!!
i been reading Fisher’s only 3 questons that count……pretty interesting….
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^ DIs Nigga. Let me know when I can wire you my life savings Frankie!
will do…..though i think getting US investors would require a whole new set of legalities….
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I may have to renounce my citizenship. I heard it’s in.
Surely you aren’t renouncing citizenship in order to substitute US tax rates with Canadian tax rates?
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Taxes are taxes. Where else can I get in on a start alpha fund before it’s inevitably oversubscribed? I have no issue paying a billion a year in taxes on capital gains.
which of the kardashian sisters do you want to date the most? cfa vs. mba?
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