Below is a list of notable hedge funds.

Largest hedge fund firms

Below are the 20 largest

hedge fund A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as s ...

s in the world ranked by discretionary assets under management (AUM) as of mid-2022. Only assets in private funds following hedge fund strategies are counted. Some of these managers also manage public funds and offer non-hedge fund strategies. The data for this table comes from ''Pensions & Investments'' with data compiled in the second quarter of 2022.

Notable hedge fund firms

Americas

Acadian Asset Management Acadian Asset Management (Acadian) is an American investment management firm headquartered in Boston with additional offices in London, Singapore and Sydney. The firm is noted for its usage of Quantitative analysis and strategies when making in ...

* Adage Capital Management *

AlphaSimplex Group AlphaSimplex Group (AlphaSimplex) is an American investment management firm based in Boston. The firm relies on quantitative analysis for its approach to investing. On October 20, 2022, it was announced that Natixis Investment Managers would ...

Altimeter Capital Altimeter Capital is an American investment firm based in Boston, Massachusetts and Menlo Park, California. The firm focuses on technology investments in both public and private markets globally. Background In 2008, Brad Gerstner founded Alt ...

* Angelo Gordon *

Appaloosa Management Appaloosa Management is an American hedge fund founded in 1993 by David Tepper and Jack Walton specializing in distressed debt. Appaloosa Management invests in public equity and fixed income markets around the world. History In 1993, David Teppe ...

Archegos Capital Management Archegos Capital Management was a limited partnership family office that managed the personal assets of Bill Hwang, at one time managing over $36 billion in assests. On April 27, 2022 Hwang was indicted and arrested on federal charges of fraud a ...

Assured Investment Management Assured Investment Management previously BlueMountain Capital Management and Assured Guaranty, is a diversified alternative asset manager founded in 2003 based in the United States'. Company BlueMountain was formed in 2003 with offices in New Yor ...

* Atlantic Investment Management * Aurelius Capital Management *

Avenue Capital Group Avenue Capital Group is an American multinational investment firm focusing on distressed securities and private equity with regional teams focusing on opportunities in the United States, Europe and Asia. The firm operates as both a private equ ...

* Balyasny Asset Management * Bracebridge Capital *

Bridgewater Associates Bridgewater Associates is an American investment management firm founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. The firm serves institutional clients including pension funds, endowments, foundations, foreign governments, and central banks. It utilizes a glob ...

* Canyon Capital Advisors *

Citadel LLC Citadel LLC (formerly known as Citadel Investment Group, LLC) is an American multinational hedge fund and financial services company. Founded in 1990 by Kenneth C. Griffin, it has more than $50 billion in assets under management . The company ...

* Clarium Capital *

Coatue Management Coatue is an American technology-focused investment manager led by founder and portfolio manager Philippe Laffont. Coatue invests in public and private markets with a focus on technology, media, telecommunications. the consumer and healthcare se ...

* D. E. Shaw & Co. * D1 Capital Partners *

Davidson Kempner Capital Management Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP (“Davidson Kempner”) is a global institutional alternative investment management firm with over $38 billion in assets under management. Davidson Kempner is headquartered in New York City, with additional ...

Discovery Capital Management Discovery Capital Management is an American hedge fund, with a focus on emerging markets. It was co-founded in 1999 by Robert Citrone Robert K. Citrone (born 1964) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager, the co-founder of Discovery Ca ...

* Dragoneer Investment Group * Ellington Management Group * Elliott Investment Management *

ESL Investments ESL Investments is a privately owned hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut. History ESL Investments is managed by Edward Lampert, who founded it in April 1988 and named it after his initials. The firm invests in the American public equit ...

Farallon Capital Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. is an American multi-strategy hedge fund headquartered in San Francisco, California. Founded by Tom Steyer in 1986, the firm employs approximately 230 professionals in eight countries around the world. Farall ...

Fortress Investment Group Fortress Investment Group is an American investment management firm based in New York City. Fortress was founded as a private equity firm in 1998 by Wes Edens, Rob Kauffman, and Randal Nardone. When Fortress launched on the NYSE in February 200 ...

* GCM Grosvenor *

Glenview Capital Management Glenview Capital Management is a hedge fund founded in 2000 with approximately $7.7 billion of capital under management as of March 2019. Glenview manages capital for investors through a series of private investment funds. The firm was founded by L ...

GoldenTree Asset Management GoldenTree Asset Management is an American asset management firm that was founded in 2000. The firm has its headquarters in New York City and offices in Charlotte, North Carolina, Dublin, London, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, and West Palm Beach. ...

* Gramercy Funds Management * Greenlight Capital * Harbinger Capital * HBK Investments * Highbridge Capital Management *

Highfields Capital Management Highfields Capital Management LP is a hedge fund founded in 1998 which had assets of $12.1 billion in 2018. The annualized net returns during the firm's first 20 years were more than 10%. Business Richard Grubman and Jonathon Jacobson met at an i ...

* Indus Capital Partners *

JANA Partners LLC JANA Partners LLC ("JANA" or "JANA Partners") is an investment manager specializing in event-driven investing. It was founded in 2001 by Barry Rosenstein. JANA engages in traditional shareholder activism and socially responsible investing. Hi ...

* King Street Capital Management * Lone Pine Capital * Magnetar Capital * Marathon Asset Management * Maverick Capital *

Millennium Management, LLC Millennium Management is an investment management firm with a multistrategy hedge fund offering. It is one of the world's largest alternative asset management firms with over $50 billion assets under management. The firm operates in America, Euro ...

* Moore Capital Management * OrbiMed * Ospraie Management, LLC * PanAgora Asset Management *

Pantera Capital Pantera Capital is an American hedge fund that specializes in cryptocurrencies. It is the largest crypto hedge fund in the world by AUM. The firm was founded in 2003 by Dan Morehead (ex Tiger Management) and is co-managed by Co-CIO Joey Kru ...

* Paulson & Co. *

PDT Partners PDT Partners (Process Driven Trading Partners) is a hedge fund company, led by quantitative trader Peter Muller, that was founded in 1993 as part of Morgan Stanley's trading division and spun out as an independent business in 2012. It has offices ...

Permian Investment Partners Permian Investment Partners is a hedge fund founded in 2007 by Cara Goldenberg, and joined by co-partners Alex Duran and Scott Hendrickson in 2008 prior to the firm's launch. Its name is derived from the Permian geological period. Its offices a ...

Pershing Square Capital Management Pershing Square Capital Management is an American hedge fund management company founded and run by Bill Ackman, headquartered in New York City. Company history In 2004, with $54 million in funding from his personal funds and former business par ...

Renaissance Technologies Renaissance Technologies LLC, also known as RenTech or RenTec, is an American hedge fund based in East Setauket, New York, on Long Island, which specializes in systematic trading using quantitative models derived from mathematical and statisti ...

* Revere Capital Advisors *

Sculptor Capital Management Sculptor Capital Management (formerly Och-Ziff Capital Management Group) is an American global diversified alternative asset management firm. They are one of the largest institutional alternative asset managers in the world. The firm operates m ...

Silver Point Capital Silver Point Capital is a Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund that focuses on credit and special situations investments. It was founded in 2002 by former Goldman Sachs partners, Edward A. Mulé and Robert J. O’Shea. Together, they created a ...

SkyBridge Capital SkyBridge Capital is a global investment firm based in New York City, United States. It is run by founder Anthony Scaramucci, Brett S. Messing, Raymond Nolte and Troy Gaveski. SkyBridge produces the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference, or "SALT" ...

* Third Point Management *

Tiger Global Management Tiger Global Management, LLC (often referred to as Tiger Global and formerly known as Tiger Technology) is an American investment firm. It mainly focuses on Internet, software, consumer, and financial technology industries. Background and histo ...

* Touradji Capital Management * Tudor Investment Corporation * Tsai Capital * Two Sigma * ValueAct Capital * Viking Global Investors * Wellington Management Company *

WorldQuant WorldQuant, LLC is an international hedge fund and quantitative investment financial management, management firm headquartered in Old Greenwich, Connecticut. Founded in 2007, the firm is currently assets under management, managing approximately ...

* Wynnefield Capital * York Capital Management

Asia

* * Hillhouse Capital Group * Dymon Asia *

Maso Capital Maso Capital Partners Limited is a Hong Kong-based Hedge fund, hedge fund that was founded and is run by Manoj Jain and Sohit Khurana. The fund is registered in the Cayman Islands under Cayman Islands company law and headquartered in Central, Hong ...

* Platinum Asset Management * Quantedge *

SPARX Group SPARX Group is a group of companies led by SPARX Group Co., Ltd as a holding company and is active in the investment and real estate business. Background SPARX Asset Management Co., Ltd was established on July 1, 1989. On December 1, 2001, it ...

* Value Partners

EMEA

Aspect Capital Aspect Capital is a London-based investment manager that applies a systematic and quantitative approach to investment management. According to the Financial Times, Aspect uses "technology and complex mathematical models to power computers that ...

BlueCrest Capital Management BlueCrest Capital Management is a British-American hedge fund which was founded by British billionaire Michael Platt and American William Reeves in 2000. The New York City-based company has registered offices in Geneva, Singapore, Boston, Con ...

Brevan Howard Brevan Howard (Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP) is a European hedge fund management company based in Jersey with its funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands. Brevan Howard was founded in 2002 by Alan Howard, alongside four other co-founders in ...

* Capital Fund Management *

Capula Investment Management Capula Investment Management LLP is a British hedge fund, the fourth largest in Europe, with assets under management (AUM) of about $23 billion as of H2 2020. Location It is headquartered at 7 Clarges Street, in Mayfair, London with affilia ...

* Caxton Associates * Cheyne Capital * CQS * Egerton Capital * Fusion Asset Management * GLG Partners *

Man Group Man Group plc is an active investment management business listed on the London Stock Exchange. It provides a range of funds across liquid and private markets for institutional and private investors globally and is the world's largest publicly t ...

* Marshall Wace *

Montreux Healthcare Fund The Montreux Healthcare Fund is one of the top European hedge funds. Its headquarters is near Hampton Court Palace. It was founded in 2010 and focuses on private specialist healthcare for people living with learning difficulties, mental health issu ...

* Pharo Management * Quality Capital Management * Rokos Capital Management * Ruffer * Scipion Capital *

The Children's Investment Fund Management The Children’s Investment Fund Management (UK) LLP (TCI) is a London‐based hedge fund management firm founded by Chris Hohn in 2003 which manages The Children’s Investment Master Fund. TCI makes long‐term investments in companies globally ...

Toscafund Asset Management Toscafund Asset Management is a London-based specialist investment firm which is a major investor in Circle Health Ltd. It has assets of £4 billion. The Chief Executive is ex Tiger Management employee, Martin Hughes, nicknamed, according to ''Th ...

Winton Group Winton Group, Ltd (which includes Winton Capital Management) is a British investment management firm founded by David Harding. In the United States, Winton is registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission as an investment advisor and with ...

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