List of hedge funds

The following are several lists of notable hedge funds and hedge funds firms based on criteria laid out in each list.

LHC Top Ten Hedge Funds Ranking

Ray Dalio has overtaken George Soros as the world’s most profitable hedge fund manager. Dalio’s Pure Alpha hedge fund made $13.8 billion last year. While Paulson & Co. lost $9.6 billion last year, more than was lost in the collapse of Long Term Capital Management in 1998.^[1]

Soros’ return has been frozen as he no longer manages investor funds. LHC Ranking exclude computer-driven funds such as Renaissance Technologies, or those with no central investment manager, such as DE Shaw. LCH Investments, part of the Edmund de Rothschild group, assesses hedge funds by how much they have made over their lifetimes for investors in dollars.^[1]

Rank	Hedge Fund	Net Gains (after fees) since inception to Dec. 31 2011 (billions of USD)	Year Founded
1.	Bridgewater Pure Alpha	$35.8	1975
2.	Quantum Endowment Fund	$31.2	1973
3.	Paulson & Co.	$22.6	1994
4.	Baupost	$16.0	1983
5.	Brevan Howard	$15.7	2003
6.	Appaloosa	$13.7	1993
7.	Caxton Global	$13.1	1983
8.	Moore Capital	$12.7	1990
9.	Farallon	$12.2	1987
10.	S.A.C.	$12.2	1992

Largest hedge fund firms

The following is a ranking of the largest hedge fund firms in the world by assets under management (AUM). The data is provided by Bloomberg Markets Magazine.^[2]

Rank	Firm	Headquarters	AUM as of Oct. 31 2011 (billions of USD)
1	Bridgewater Associates	Westport, CT	$77.6
2	Man Group	London	$64.5
3	J.P. Morgan Asset Management	New York	$46.6
4	Brevan Howard Asset Management	London	$36.6
5	Och-Ziff Capital Management Group	New York	$28.5
6	Paulson & Co.	New York	$28.0
7	BlackRock Advisors	New York	$27.7
8	Winton Capital Management	London	$27.0
9	Highbridge Capital Management	New York	$26.1
10	BlueCrest Capital Management	London	$25.0
11	Baupost Group	Boston	$23.0
12	Cerberus Capital Management	New York	$23.0
13	D.E. Shaw & Co.	New York	$23.0
14	Angelo Gordon Co.	New York	$22.0
15	AQR Capital Management	Greenwich, CT	$20.5
16	Two Sigma Investments	New York	$20.0
16	Farallon Capital Management	San Francisco	$20.0
17	Goldman Sachs Assets Management	New York	$19.5
18	Elliott Management	New York	$19.0
19	King Street Capital Management	New York	$18.5
20	Canyon Partners	Los Angeles	$18.1

Other notable hedge fund companies

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