Yes, while Rome burns around us there is a core of Money people that predicted the current crisis and have made a whack of dough.
Alpha Magazine’s 2008 Top Moneymakers
1 – James Simons, Renaissance Technologies Corp, $2.5 billion
2 – John Paulson, Paulson & Co, $2 billion
3 – John Arnold, Centaurus Energy, $1.5 billion
4 – George Soros, Soros Fund Management, $1.1 billion
5 – Raymond Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, $780 million
6 – Bruce Kovner, Caxton Associates, $640 million
7 – David Shaw, D.E. Shaw & Co, $275 million
8 – Stanley Druckenmiller, Duquesne Capital Management, $260 million
9 – (tie) David Harding, Winton Capital Management, $250 million
9 – (tie) Alan Howard, Brevan Howard Asset Management, $250 million
9 – (tie) John Taylor Jr, FX Concepts, $250 million
12 – James Chanos, Kynikos Associates
13 – Michael Platt, BlueCrest Capital Management
14 – Roy Niederhoffer, R.G. Niederhoffer Capital Management
15 – John Horseman, Horseman Capital Management
16 – Paul Touradji, Touradji Capital Management
17 – Henry Laufer, Renaissance Technologies Corp.
18 – Kenneth Tropin, Graham Capital Management
19 – (tie) Pierre Andurand, Dennis Crema, BlueGold Capital Management
19 – (tie) Christopher Rokos, Brevan Howard Asset Management
22 – (tie) Christian Baha, Superfund
22 – (tie) Christian Levett, Clive Capital
24 – William Dunn, Dunn Capital Management
25 – Andrew Hoine, Paulson & Co.
Not too shabby!
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