Brokerage firms, via the WSJ, get service-y today, dividing a bunch of so-called marquee hedge funds into two groups. The first is the A-team, and those listed have the lucky distinction of, besides receiving “perks such as stock research, trading data and introductions to executives of companies in which they might invest,” being branded as firms which will probably not go under. So, high-five on that endorsement. They are:
* Brevan Howard Asset Management
* Bridgewater Associates
* Caxton Associates
* D.E. Shaw & Co.
* Duquesne Capital
* Elliott Management Corp.
* Eton Park Capital
* Galleon Group
* Highbridge Capital Management
* King Street Capital Management
* Kingdon Capital Management
* Marshall Wace Asset Management
* Millennium Partners
* Moore Capital Management
* Och-Ziff Capital Management
* Paulson & Co.
* Pequot Capital Management
* Renaissance Technologies
* SAC Capital Advisors
* Soros Fund Management
* Stark Investments
* Tudor Investment Corp.
* UBS-O’Connor
And then there’s the B-team, whose participants are getting less leverage lovin,’ and who have the unique opportunity to shock everyone by beating the prognostication that they won’t be profitable enough for the banks’ liking and/or “will fold.” Among the two hundred names, a handful you might recognize:
*Citadel
*JWM Partners
*Glenview Capital
*Farallon Capital
*Perry Capital
*HBK Investments
where is Sir Timothy Sykes money making machine listed?
any word on FIG?
Is JWM even in existence? They were bleeding money before the problems started.
@3- they’re starting a NEW fund, if you can believe that.
i say forget these terrible, fascist lists. we gather all the hedge fund heads, pair them up with professional ballroom dancers and then on a weekly basis, let judges and the public decide who should stay or go.
Full list is where?
Millennium Partners? Really?
Farallon? No way.
@6- first time on the internet? it’s in the link through to the WSJ article.
@9 first time reading full articles? i think 6 was referring to the complete A-list and 200-plus fund B-list the article mentions but does not include.
Get someone in prime services at CS to send you the CS 400. It will help their manager make a tough decision a month early. Also ask them for a High Touch…or Dirty Touch.
@4 No way that is happening. I heard rumors that they were trying but not that it was done. I don’t even think he made money with the second fund during the bull market. He was long mortgage crap.
Second time is shame on me, what is third time?
What about Campbell & Company, the quant fund based out of Towson, MD?
@12-
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123363133775242425.html
JWM Partners Considers New Fund
LONDON — John Meriwether and the other partners in JWM Partners LLC, his hedge-fund company, are considering launching a new fund, according to a senior official at the company.
This comes after a year in which Connecticut-based JWM Partners has seen the performance of its flagship fund plummet amid highly volatile trading conditions.
The new fund could be set up within JWM Partners or in a new company, said the person, who is familiar with the preparations.
The fund’s launch remains some way off and could still fall apart. The person said it was too early to say what investment strategy it would use.
Mr. Meriwether set up JWM Partners in 1999 after his previous fund, Long-Term Capital Management, foundered on highly leveraged trading strategies and had to be bailed out by U.S. banks in 1998.
JWM said in its December letter to investors, sent in late January, that the value of its flagship fund, the Relative Value Opportunity Portfolio, dropped 41.57% over 2008 to reach a net asset value of $495.7 million.
BTW… is it a typo or is Moore going to buy Och Ziff????????
Has there been a merger i have not heard about???
@15 you’re a narc.
clearly a typo. by your rationale, pequot would have bought renaissance
signed, #16
Which list is AQR on?
Bess, which list is AQR on? Do they fall into the secret C list?
- not @17
Not on the A team? I pity da fool!
Citadel should be D listed.
Perry Capital???? I thought they just make dresses and handbags now?
Banks that are begging federal governments for $$$ are making A-list/B-list determinations?
Fuck that.
Izzy Englander made the A-list?
Anyone heard anything about Tremblant lately? One of their people claims to have been a Navy SEAL. I am giving serious thought to removing his testicles with a spork.
@14: I understand giving people 2nd chances, but isn’t the “JWM Partners” fuckup Meriwether not only the same as the LTCM fuckup Meriwether but also the Solomon Brothers fuckup Meriwether circa ’87?
What kind of fuckup would invest money in fuckup Meriwether’s 4th record-breaking future fuckup?
Just sayin’
@14: I understand giving people 2nd chances, but isn’t the “JWM Partners” fuckup Meriwether not only the same as the LTCM fuckup Meriwether but also the Salomon Brothers fuckup Meriwether circa ’87?
What kind of fuckup would invest money in fuckup Meriwether’s 4th record-breaking future fuckup?
Just sayin’
Stark Investments is definitely not a survivor. Their Asian and their private equity investments – Wolf Hollow – will cause a run on their capital. Fraud.
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