The hedge fund is a type of pooled investment and it uses different kinds of investment strategies. These funds help you to generate large profits and its manager dictates on buying and selling.
Also, it may include stocks, derivatives, bonds, currencies, commodities, or other assets controlled under this fund. In any case, the fun could be shorter or longer or it may be a combination of both short and long strategies.
But, an alternative investment fund management company charges more fees for this fund than other traditional funds. The explanation for the additional fees is that this fund can bring investors large profits, even if the market is down.
If you’re a manager of this type of fund, you can earn millions to billions of dollars every year. Well, let’s know about the largest hedge funds at this time.
Bridgewater Associates
It’s a Connecticut based hedge fund that remains the biggest fund in words of an asset in the world so far. The company founded in 1975 and earned above $160 billion as its whole assets under its management up to February 2020.
It has some different types of clients including institutional investors, university endowments, pension funds, and charitable foundations. Currently, more than 1700 staff members are working in this company.
The company has proved that the biggest funds are also might be extremely profitable. Besides, Forbes reported that Dalio owns approximately $18.7 billion up to this March. So, this is not surprising that a manager of a hedge fund can earn about $1 billion as compensation.
Renaissance Techs
The co-founder of the company is James Simons. He has boosted his finance to second place on this list. It’s one of the most popular and oldest companies. The company works with a better plan and has paid off a lot.
This is a New York-based company that holds assets of roughly $68 billion. It serves different ways to manage funds of individual investors, corporations, financial institutions, and trusts.
Currently, Peter Brown is operating the company and Simons is remaining as a member of the board. He earned the highest amount, $1.6 billion as the remuneration while working as the manager of a hedge fund. Forbes reported that Simons is worth $21.6 billion by March 2020.
Man Group
The headquarters of the company is located in London. The Man Group is the 3rd biggest hedge fund managing company for alternative investment services that has $62 billion assets under their management.
It offers a large range of different types of funds to private as well as institutional investors. Also, it has offices all around the world including New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong, and Sydney.
The company established by the James Man in 1783. It was a sugar cooperative as well as a brokerage firm at the beginning. It has shares listed on one of the largest stock exchanges, London Stock Exchange, LSE. Moreover, this is the largest hedge fund that trades publicly in today’s world.
Besides, more hedge fund companies are out there. These include AQR Capital Management and Two Sigma.
