Hedge Fund Management Industry Competitors

ABC arbitrage knows the alphabet when it comes to arbitrage strategies in both the European and American financial sectors. It is the holding company for ABC arbitrage Asset Management, its principal subsidiary, which manages the company's trading practices and portfolio management activities....

Alternative Investment Strategies is a closed-end investment firm that manages hedge funds. The company, founded in 1996, provides services to both private and institutional investors. About a third of its funds are US-based; approximately 50% are allocated to long and short equity funds....

For Angelo, Gordon, bucking tradition goes hand-in-hand with making money. The hedge fund firm specializes in so-called "non-traditional" investments, such as distressed assets (bankrupt and other troubled companies), merger arbitrage (mergers, reorganizations, or liquidations), and convertible arbitrage (trading strategies-based convertible securities)....

Asset Alliance peers over the hedge, then invests in the sightings that suit it best. Founded in 1996, the company owns interests (up to a two-third's stake) in about 10 investment management firms that specialize in hedge funds and related alternative investment strategies, such as funds of funds, multi-manager funds, and structured products....

This Citadel aspires not to turn boys into men, but to turn cash into, well, more cash. Citadel Investment Group, whose seeds were planted in super-trader Ken Griffin's Harvard dorm room in 1987, has become one of the world's largest hedge funds, accounting for as much as 2% of trading activity in at the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq every day....

This group doesn't feature space-suit wearing funkmeisters or former presidents. But hedge fund manager Clinton Group does administer more than $1 billion in assets for banks, insurance firms, pension funds, and wealthy individuals in the US and abroad. It also manages $6 billion in collateralized debt obligations....

Red means stop, and green means ... more capital? Greenlight Capital is a hedge fund firm that invests primarily in publicly traded North American corporate debt offerings and equities. Founded in 1996, Greenlight Capital also manages a fund of funds and a private equity fund through its affiliates, Greenlight Masters and Greenlight Private Equity Partners....

Knightsbridge Advisers is fund of funds manager that invests in early-stage venture capital funds and other specialist-managed portfolios. Customers include endowments, foundations, pension funds, and insurance companies. Its most recent fund (Knightsbridge Venture Capital VI) has approximately $475 million in capital under management....

You don't have to guzzle beer and watch football to be part of this group. The Man Group provides alternative investment products and brokerage services across the globe. Through asset management division Man Investments, the company administers more than $70 billion of assets in funds, making it one of the largest hedge fund managers in the world....

RAB Capital is a fund management and investment firm with a primary focus on absolute return funds (i.e. hedge funds). The company manages about 30 investment products that each utilize a different investment strategy (for instance, some invest only in certain countries such as the UK, Japan, or China, while others focus on commodities and emerging markets or utilize a blend of styles)....

Complex mathematical theories are reborn as investment strategies at Renaissance Technologies. The quantitative hedge fund, which has some $26 billion in assets under management, focuses on using computer technical models to predict the movement of markets; many of the firm's analysts hold Ph.Ds in math or science disciplines (including astrophysics)....

George Soros makes headlines, but not nearly as well as he makes money. His Soros Fund Management's perennially successful funds, including its flagship Quantum Endowment Fund, historically have had investment strategies based on macroeconomic trends, such as monitoring a nation's economic health to bet against its currency....

vCap Investments is an asset management firm that specializes in four areas: asset management for clients who need investment and financial planning; the private client group, through which is focuses on high-net-worth clients; alternative investments, such as hedge funds; and capital introductions, best described as introducing hedge fund managers to investors....

If you work at Andor Capital Management, does that make you an Andorean? Sci-fi alien or not, Andor Capital Management was launched when famed tech investor Dan Benton and former partner Art Samberg (the two had co-founded Pequot Capital Management ) amicably split....

Ardsley Partners is hardly shouting from the rooftops. The $1 billion equity-focused hedge fund company keeps a low profile. Through various funds (including Ardsley Offshore Fund, Ardsley Partners Fund II, Ardsley Partners Institutional Fund, and Augusta Partners), the company invests globally in rapidly growing companies....

If there's a bustle in Coast Asset Management's hedge fund, don't be alarmed now. The hedge fund administrator uses market-neutral investment strategies to try to make money for institutional clients and high-net-worth individuals (and itself) in any economic climate....

Elliott means action: Hedge fund firm Elliott Management takes an activist approach to investing, frequently amassing significant but minority stakes in distressed or underperforming companies and attempting to foment change. It manages hedge funds Elliott Associates and Elliott International, which together manage some $10 billion of capital for large institutional investors and wealthy individuals and families....

Hanseatic Group's past success may give the company a swelled hedge. One of the top performers over the last half of the 1990s and into the new millennium, its Hanseatic Management Services hedge fund manager employs a nonlinear investment philosophy, using algorithms similar to those applied to ecology and quantum mechanics to detect patterns in market activity....

John W. Meriwether (the JWM in JWM Partners) hopes his latest venture is more long-term than his last. A pioneer in quantitative and model-based investing, the former Salomon Brothers vice chairman founded hedge fund JWM Partners barely a year after his previous co-managed fund, the heavily leveraged Long-Term Capital Management, crashed spectacularly in 1998 and received a $3.6 billion bailout organized by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York....

Those who invest serious dough through Pequot know that Pequot is serious about making dough grow. Hedge fund Pequot Capital manages about $7 billion in assets on behalf of institutional investors and wealthy individuals. Affiliated company FirstMark Capital, formerly Pequot's private equity and venture capital arm called Pequot Ventures, has nearly $2 billion in committed capital in such sectors as business services, software, information technology, health care, telecommunications, and media....