Farallon Capital

Farallon Capital Management, L.L.C. is an American investment firm that manages capital on behalf of institutions and individuals. The firm was founded by Tom Steyer in 1986. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, the firm employs approximate...

Marshall Wace

Marshall Wace LLP is a hedge fund in London that was founded by Paul Marshall and Ian Wace in 1997. Marshall is chairman and chief investment officer, and Wace is chief executive officer & chief risk officer.

D. E. Shaw & Co.

D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. is a multinational investment management firm founded in 1988 by David E. Shaw and based in New York City. The company is known for developing complicated mathematical models and sophisticated computer programs to exploi...

Baupost Group

The Baupost Group is a long-only hedge fund founded in 1982 by Harvard Professor William Poorvu and partners Howard Stevenson, Jordan Baruch and Isaac Auerbach. Seth Klarman, who was asked by Poorvu to help run the fund, remains at its head today....

Viking Global Investors

Viking Global Investors is an American-based hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut.It was established in October 1999 by its CEO and risk manager, Ole Andreas Halvorsen. In July 2014, they had $28.8 billion under management.

Davidson Kempner Capital Management

Davidson Kempner Capital Management LP (“Davidson Kempner”) is a global institutional investment management firm with over $30 billion in assets under management. Davidson Kempner is headquartered in New York City, with additional offices in Londo...

Citadel LLC

Citadel LLC (formerly known as Citadel Investment Group, LLC) is an American global financial institution. Founded in 1990 by Kenneth C. Griffin, the company operates two primary businesses: Citadel, one of the world's largest alternative asset ma...

BlackRock

BlackRock, Inc. is an American global investment management corporation based in New York City. Founded in 1988, initially as a risk management and fixed income institutional asset manager, BlackRock is one of the world's largest asset managers wi...

Elliott Management Corporation

Elliott Management Corporation is an American investment management firm. It is also one of the largest activist funds in the world. It is the management affiliate of American hedge funds flagship Elliott Associates L.P. and Elliott International ...

Millennium Management

Millennium Management is a hedge fund and a multistrategy investment management firm, providing related services such as portfolio management, market research and trading. Israel A. Englander and Ronald Shear an acquaintance from the American Stoc...

Two Sigma Investments

Two Sigma Investments LP is a New York City-based international hedge fund that uses a variety of technological methods, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and distributed computing, for its trading strategies. The firm is run by...

AQR Capital Management

AQR Capital Management (Applied Quantitative Research) is a global investment management firm based in Greenwich, Connecticut, United States. The firm, which was founded in 1998 by Cliff Asness, David Kabiller, John Liew and Robert Krail, offers a...

Man Group

Man Group plc is an active management business initially founded as a sugar cooperage and brokerage by James Man in 1783. It provides a range of funds for institutional and private investors globally and is the world's largest publicly traded hedg...

Renaissance Technologies

Renaissance Technologies LLC is an American hedge fund firm based in East Setauket, New York, on Long Island, which specializes in systematic trading using quantitative models derived from mathematical and statistical analyses. The company was fou...

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 gl...