Below is a list of notable
hedge funds.
Largest hedge fund firms
Below are the 20 largest
hedge fund
A hedge fund is a Pooling (resource management), pooled investment fund that holds Market liquidity, liquid assets and that makes use of complex trader (finance), trading and risk management techniques to aim to improve investment performance and ...
s in the world ranked by discretionary
assets under management
In finance, assets under management (AUM), sometimes called fund under management, refers to the total market value of all financial assets that a financial institution—such as a mutual fund, venture capital firm, or depository institutio ...
(AUM) as of mid-2024. 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 as of June 2024.
Notable hedge fund firms
Americas
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Acadian Asset Management
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Adage Capital Management
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Alphadyne Asset Management
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AlphaSimplex Group
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Altimeter Capital
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Angelo Gordon
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Appaloosa Management
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AQR Capital Management
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Archegos Capital Management
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Assured Investment Management
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Atlantic Investment Management
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Aurelius Capital Management
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Avenue Capital Group
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Baker Brothers Advisors
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Balyasny Asset Management
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Beach Point Capital Management
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Bracebridge Capital
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Bridgewater Associates
Bridgewater Associates, LP (informally known as "Bridgewater") is an American investment management firm founded by Ray Dalio in 1975. The firm serves institutional clients including pension funds, Financial endowment, endowments, Foundation (no ...
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Canyon Capital Advisors
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Capstone Investment Advisors
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Citadel LLC
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Coatue Management
Coatue is an American technology-focused investment management firm led by founder and portfolio manager Philippe Laffont.
Coatue invests in both public and private markets, with a focus on technology, media, telecommunications, as well as the c ...
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D1 Capital Partners
D1 Capital Partners is an American investment firm based in New York City. The firm invests in public and private markets globally.
History and background
D1 Capital Partners was founded in July 2018 by Daniel Sundheim, who is a minority own ...
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Davidson Kempner Capital Management
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Deerfield Management
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D. E. Shaw & Co.
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Discovery Capital Management
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Dragoneer Investment Group
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Ellington Management Group
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Elliott Investment Management
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Engineers Gate
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ESL Investments
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ExodusPoint Capital Management
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Farallon Capital
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Fortress Investment Group
Fortress Investment Group, LLC is an American investment management firm based in New York City. It was founded as a private equity firm in 1998 by Wes Edens, Rob Kauffman, Pete Briger, Michael Novogratz, and Randal Nardone.
Overview
When ...
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Garda Capital Partners
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GCM Grosvenor
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Glenview Capital Management
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GoldenTree Asset Management
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Graham Capital Management
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Gramercy Funds Management
Gramercy Funds Management is an investment manager dedicated to emerging markets. The company’s strategies include multi-asset, private credit, public credit, and special situations.
History
Gramercy was founded in 1998 by Robert Koenigsberger, ...
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Greenlight Capital
Greenlight Capital is an American hedge fund founded in 1996 by David Einhorn. Greenlight invests primarily in publicly traded North American corporate debt offerings and equities. Greenlight is most notable for its short selling of Lehman stoc ...
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Harbinger Capital
Harbinger Capital Partners is a private hedge fund based in New York City, New York (state), New York, founded by Philip Falcone. Harbinger is a highly diversified multi-strategy hedge fund. Notable investments have included sub-prime mortgages i ...
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HBK Investments
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Highbridge Capital Management
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Highfields Capital Management
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Himalaya Capital
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Hudson Bay Capital Management
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Jain Global
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JANA Partners LLC
JANA Partners LLC (JANA or JANA Partners) is an Asset management, investment manager specializing in event-driven investing. It was founded in 2001 by Barry Rosenstein. JANA engages in traditional shareholder activism and socially responsible inv ...
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K2 Advisors
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King Street Capital Management
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Lighthouse Investment Partners
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Lone Pine Capital
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Magnetar Capital
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Marathon Asset Management
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Maverick Capital
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Millennium Management, LLC
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Moore Capital Management
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OrbiMed
OrbiMed (OrbiMed Advisors) is an American investment firm based in New York City, United States. It is focused on making public and private investments in the Healthcare and Biotechnology industries. OrbiMed is considered one of the world's large ...
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Ospraie Management, LLC
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PanAgora Asset Management
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Pantera Capital
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Paulson & Co.
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PDT Partners
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Perceptive Advisors
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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, Ackman started Pershing Square Capital Management with $54 million in fundi ...
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Quantum Fund
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RA Capital Management
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Renaissance Technologies
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Revere Capital Advisors
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Saba Capital Management
Saba Capital Management (Saba) is a credit relative value focused hedge fund firm established in 2009. It also has strategies in tail hedge, closed-end funds and SPACs.
History
Launch
Boaz Weinstein was head of a credit proprietary tradi ...
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Schonfeld Strategic Advisors
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Scion Asset Management
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Sculptor Capital Management
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Silver Point Capital
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SkyBridge Capital
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SPX Capital
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Squarepoint Capital
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Statar Capital
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TGS Management
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Third Point Management
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Tiger Global Management
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Touradji Capital Management
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Trian Partners
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Tudor Investment Corporation
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Tsai Capital
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Two Sigma
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Universa Investments
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ValueAct Capital
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Verition Fund Management
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Viking Global Investors
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Voloridge Investment Management
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Walleye Capital
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Waterfall Asset Management
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Wellington Management Company
Wellington Management Company is a private, independent investment management firm with client assets under management totaling over US$1 trillion based in Boston, Massachusetts, United States.
The firm serves as an investment advisor
A fi ...
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WorldQuant
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Wynnefield Capital
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Voleon Group
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York Capital Management
Asia-Pacific
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BFAM Partners
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Dymon Asia
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Greenwoods Asset Management
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High-Flyer
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Hillhouse Capital Group
Hillhouse Investment Management Ltd. is a global private equity firm with an East Asian heritage. Hillhouse was founded by Lei Zhang in 2005 with initial seed capital from the Yale University endowment and invests across East Asia, Southeast A ...
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Lingjun Investment
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Maso Capital
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Minghong Investment
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Navigator Global Investments
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Oasis Management
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Perseverance Asset Management
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Pinpoint Asset Management
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Platinum Asset Management
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Quantedge
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Segantii Capital Management
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SPARX Group
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Tybourne Capital Management
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Ubiquant
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Value Partners
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Yanfu Investments
EMEA
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AKO Capital
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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 ...
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BlueCrest Capital Management
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Brevan Howard
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Capital Fund Management
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Capula Investment Management
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Caxton Associates
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Cheyne Capital
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CQS
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Egerton Capital
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Eisler Capital
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G-Research
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GLG Partners
''Man GLG'' (formerly GLG Partners) is a discretionary investment manager and a wholly owned subsidiary of British alternative investment manager Man Group plc. It is a diversified and multi-strategy fund manager that operates strategies includ ...
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GSA Capital
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Lansdowne Partners
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LMR Partners
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Man Group
Man Group plc is an active investment management business listed on the London Stock Exchange. It provides investment funds in liquid and private markets for institutional and private investors. It is the world's largest publicly traded hedge f ...
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Marshall Wace
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Pharo Management
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Quality Capital Management
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Qube Research & Technologies
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Rokos Capital Management
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Ruffer Investment Company
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Scipion Capital
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Systematica Investments
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The Children's Investment Fund Management
The Children's Investment Fund Management (TCI) is a British 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.
It is the 2nd l ...
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Toscafund Asset Management
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Winton Group
See also
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List of private-equity firms
Below is a list of notable private equity firms.
Largest private equity firms by PE capital raised
Each year Private Equity International publishes the PEI 300, a ranking of the largest private-equity firms by how much capital they have raised fo ...
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Boutique investment bank
A boutique investment bank is an investment bank that specializes in at least one aspect of investment banking, generally corporate finance, although some banks' strengths are retail in nature, such as Charles Schwab. Of those involved in corpor ...
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List of venture capital firms
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Sovereign wealth fund
A sovereign wealth fund (SWF), or sovereign investment fund, is a state-owned investment fund that invests in real and financial assets such as stocks, Bond (finance), bonds, real estate, precious metals, or in alternative investments such as ...
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List of exchange-traded funds
The exchange-traded funds available on exchanges vary from country to country. Many of the ETFs listed below are available exclusively on that nation's primary stock exchange and cannot be purchased on a foreign stock exchange.
* List of American ...
References
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Hedge funds
A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that holds liquid assets and that makes use of complex trading and risk management techniques to aim to improve investment performance and insulate returns from market risk. Among these portfolio techniq ...