A Hedge Fund is an investment fund that pools capital from a limited number of sophisticated individual or institutional investors and invests in a variety of assets, often with complex portfolio construction and risk management techniques.

The name "Hedge Fund" is originated from the paired long and short positions that the first of these funds used to hedge market risk.

Hedge funds do not recruit many MBAs, with only a small percentage of graduates from any school making it into a role in the sector.

MBA Hedge Fund




Top Hedge Funds Managers 2015

In June 2015 Forbes listed:

George Soros of Quantum Group of Funds, Ray Dalio of Bridgewater Associates - the world's largest hedge fund firm in 2015 with US$155 billion assets under management compared to US$122 billion under assets in 2011.

Steven A. Cohen of Point72 Asset Management - formerly known as S.A.C. Capital Advisors, John Paulson of Paulson & Co. whose hedge funds as of December 2015 had $19 billion assets under management, compared to $18 billion in September 2013 and $36 billion in early 2011.

David Tepper of Appaloosa Management, Paul Tudor Jones II of Tudor Investment Corporation, Daniel Och of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group with more than $40 billion in assets under management in 2013.

Israel Englander of Millennium Management, Leon G. Cooperman of Omega Advisors, Michael Platt of Blue Crest Capital Management (UK) Europe’s third-biggest hedge-fund firm, Stanley Druckenmiller, Daniel Loeb of Third Point LLC with a portfolio worth $14 billion

James Dinan of York Capital Management, Stephen Mandel Jr. of Lone Pine Capital with $26.7 billion under management at end June 2015,Larry Robbins of Glenview Capital Management with approximately $9.2 billion of assets under management as of July 2014.

Glenn Dubin of Highbridge Capital Management, Paul Singer of Elliott Management Corporation, an activist hedge fund with more than US$23 billion in assets under management in 2013, and a portfolio worth $8,124,567,000 as of the first quarter of 2015.

Michael Hintze of CQS with $14.4 billion of assets under management as of June 2015, and David Einhorn of Greenlight Capital, as the top twenty billionaire hedge fund managers.