Maneet Ahuja is an American author, journalist, television news producer, and

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 ...

specialist. She is a producer of

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's morning business news program, ''

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''. Her 2012 book, ''The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds'', was published by

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and nominated for an FT / Goldman Sachs Book of the Year Award. ''

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'' named her to their "30 Under 30" list of media figures for 2012. Ahuja has also produced a number of business events including CNBC's Delivering Alpha conference, a hedge fund summit that she created and co-developed. Ahuja serves on the Council of Advocates for Mt. Sinai Hospital and is on the

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. Her next book is

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Career

Finance and journalism

Ahuja began her finance career at the age of 17 when she interned at

Citigroup Citigroup Inc. or Citi (Style (visual arts), stylized as citi) is an American multinational investment banking, investment bank and financial services company based in New York City. The company was formed in 1998 by the merger of Citicorp, t ...

in 2002 as a

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analyst. After ten months, Ahuja became a full-time employee. She remained at Citigroup for nearly four years before moving to

Merrill Lynch Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, doing business as Merrill, and previously branded Merrill Lynch, is an American investment management and wealth management division of Bank of America. Along with BofA Securities, the investm ...

as a global economics and equity research intern. She later became one of ''

The Wall Street Journal ''The Wall Street Journal'' (''WSJ''), also referred to simply as the ''Journal,'' is an American newspaper based in New York City. The newspaper provides extensive coverage of news, especially business and finance. It operates on a subscriptio ...

s youngest reporters, working on their Money & Investing team. Ahuja joined

in 2008, and the following year she was awarded the network's Enterprise Award for her coverage of the hedge fund industry. Ahuja's work on CNBC's ''

'' includes the first on-air appearance made by

Ray Dalio Raymond Thomas Dalio (born August 8, 1949) is an American billionaire and hedge-fund manager, who has been co-chief investment officer of Bridgewater Associates since 1985. He founded Bridgewater in 1975 in New York. Dalio was born in New York ...

, Founder and CIO of the world's largest hedge fund Bridgewater Associates and

David Tepper David Alan Tepper (born September 11, 1957) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager. He is the owner of the Carolina Panthers of the National Football League (NFL) and Charlotte FC of Major League Soccer (MLS). Tepper is the founder and ...

—hedge fund manager and the founder of

Appaloosa Management Appaloosa Management L.P. 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 ...

, coverage of David Einhorn's warning call before the collapse of

Lehman Brothers Lehman Brothers Inc. ( ) was an American global financial services firm founded in 1850. Before filing for bankruptcy in 2008, Lehman was the fourth-largest investment bank in the United States (behind Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, and Merril ...

, and

John Paulson John Alfred Paulson (born December 14, 1955) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager. He leads Paulson & Co., a New York–based investment management firm he founded in 1994. He has been called "one of the most prominent names in high f ...

's communication to investors following an SEC investigation into the

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"Abacus" deals. She has also covered the

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Davos, Switzerland Davos (, ; or ; ; Old ) is an Alpine resort town and municipality in the Prättigau/Davos Region in the canton of Graubünden, Switzerland. It has a permanent population of (). Davos is located on the river Landwasser, in the Rhaetian Al ...

. In December 2012, Ahuja and CNBC colleague, Kate Kelly, made the first report that

Bill Ackman William Albert Ackman (born May 11, 1966) is an American billionaire hedge fund manager who is the founder and chief executive officer of Pershing Square Capital Management, a hedge fund management company. His investment approach has made him ...

, manager of

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, had a short position on

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, a

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company that sells health care products, and considered their business model to be a

pyramid scheme A pyramid scheme is a business model which, rather than earning money (or providing Return on investment, returns on investments) by sale of legitimate product (business), products to an end consumer, mainly earns money by recruiting new members ...

Events

Ahuja co-founded and created CNBC's Delivering Alpha conference, a hedge fund summit launched in conjunction with ''

Institutional Investor An institutional investor is an entity that pools money to purchase securities, real property, and other investment assets or originate loans. Institutional investors include commercial banks, central banks, credit unions, government-linked ...

''. She produces events for

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate school, graduate business school of Harvard University, a Private university, private Ivy League research university. Located in Allston, Massachusetts, HBS owns Harvard Business Publishing, which p ...

's U.S. Competitiveness Project and quarterly shows at the

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with

Alan Greenspan Alan Greenspan (born March 6, 1926) is an American economist who served as the 13th chairman of the Federal Reserve from 1987 to 2006. He worked as a private adviser and provided consulting for firms through his company, Greenspan Associates L ...

, former

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. Ahuja served as the master of ceremonies at the Wharton Economic Summit held at

Lincoln Center Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (also simply known as Lincoln Center) is a complex of buildings in the Lincoln Square neighborhood on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. It has thirty indoor and outdoor facilities and is host to 5 ...

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March 2013. Ahuja also co-founded CNBC's popular "Disruptors" series initiative focusing on tech startups in the Valley and beyond. She interviewed tech legend

Marc Andreessen Marc Lowell Andreessen ( ; born July 9, 1971) is an American businessman and former software engineer. He is the co-author of Mosaic, the first widely used web browser with a graphical user interface; co-founder of Netscape; and co-founder and ...

for Andreessen Horowitz's inaugural Capital Summit at Cavallo Point September 2015.

Awards

In October 2012 the

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awarded Ahuja and Devin Banerjee of

Bloomberg News Bloomberg News (originally Bloomberg Business News) is an international news agency headquartered in New York City and a division of Bloomberg L.P. Content produced by Bloomberg News is disseminated through Bloomberg Terminals, Bloomberg T ...

grants to attend seminars for business journalists at the

Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania The Wharton School ( ) is the business school of the University of Pennsylvania, a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia. Established in 1881 through a donation from Joseph Wharton, a co-founder of Bethlehem Steel, the Wharton ...

''The Alpha Masters''

Ahuja's book, ''The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds'' was published by

in May 2012. The nine-chapter book features profiles of 11 executives in the hedge fund industry:

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 ...

Pierre Lagrange Pierre Philippe Alexandre Lagrange (born 15 March 1962) is a Belgian economist, hedge fund manager, financier, and a co-founder of GLG Partners. His net worth is estimated at £500 million according to ''The Sunday Times''. Early life and educatio ...

and Tim Wong of

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 ...

of Paulson & Co.,

Marc Lasry Marc Lasry (born September 23, 1959) is a Moroccan American billionaire businessman and private equity manager. He is the co-founder and chief executive officer (CEO) of Avenue Capital Group. He was a co-owner of the NBA's Milwaukee Bucks bask ...

and Sonia Gardner of

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 equit ...

Daniel S. Loeb Daniel Seth Loeb (born December 18, 1961) is an American investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist. He is the founder and chief executive of Third Point, a New York-based hedge fund focused on event-driven, value-oriented investing with ...

of Third Point LLC,

James Chanos James Steven Chanos (born December 24, 1957) is a Greek-American investment manager. He is president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City registered investment advisor focused on short selling. An art collector, he appeared on the ...

of Kynikos Associates LP, and

Boaz Weinstein Boaz Ronald Weinstein (born 1973) is an American hedge fund manager and founder of Saba Capital Management. He rose to prominence at Deutsche Bank in the early and mid 2000s with his credit default swap and capital structure arbitrage trading ...

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 ...

. The book's foreword was written by

Mohamed A. El-Erian Mohamed Abdullah El-Erian (; born August 19, 1958) is an Egyptian-American economist and businessman. He is List of Presidents of Queens' College, Cambridge, President of Queens' College, Cambridge, and chief economic adviser at Allianz, the cor ...

, CEO of

PIMCO Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO) is an American investment management firm. While it has a specific focus on active fixed income management worldwide, it manages investments in many asset classes, including fixed income, share ca ...

, and its afterword by economist

Myron Scholes Myron Samuel Scholes ( ; born July 1, 1941) is a Canadian– American financial economist. Scholes is the Frank E. Buck Professor of Finance, Emeritus, at the Stanford Graduate School of Business, Nobel Laureate in Economic Sciences, and co-ori ...

, 1997 winner of the

Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, officially the Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel (), commonly referred to as the Nobel Prize in Economics(), is an award in the field of economic sciences adminis ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Ahuja, Maneet 1984 births Living people American business and financial journalists Television producers from New York City Citigroup employees Merrill (company) people The Wall Street Journal people