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Doug Casey – Investor Profile

Doug Casey – Investor Profile

Posted by | Mar 28, 2018 |

Douglas Casey is an American speculator and the founder and chairman of Casey Research. Douglas Casey is a real estate investor as well as an advisor on how to profit from market distortions and periods of economic turmoil. Casey is a graduate of Georgetown University. He was raised Roman Catholic but later became an atheist. In 2007 the Financial Times noted that Douglas Casey pointed out the credit crunch saw a close correlation between gold and equity prices. He said this was because hedge funds sold both gold and equities for liquidity. Douglas Casey recommends gold as an investment....

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Lionel Paquin – Investor Profile

Lionel Paquin – Investor Profile

Posted by | Mar 28, 2018 |

Lionel Paquin (1970 France) is the CEO of Lyxor Asset Management a European asset management specialist with EUR 138.7 billion AUM and is wholly-owned by the French bank Societe Generale. Lionel Paquin joined SocGen in 2004 after nine years as a senior civil servant in the French finance ministry. Three years later he transferred to Lyxor as chief risk officer. In 2014, he became the first internal candidate to win the company’s top job. This was a break with tradition: previous Lyxor leaders have been from the parent bank. Under Lionel Paquin management the company’s assets have grown from...

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Christer Gardell – Investor Profile

Christer Gardell – Investor Profile

Posted by | Mar 28, 2018 |

Christer Gardell (1960, Sweden) is Europe’s most activist investor. He is considered to be Europe’s Carl Icahn. Christer Gardell is the co-founder of Cevian Capital which is Europe’s largest activist hedge fund with 15.5 billion USD AUM. In 1984 Christer Gardell earned a bachelors degree in business studies at Stockholm School of Economics. He then worked at McKinsey & Company and was appointed CEO of Swedish investment company AB Custos from 1996 to 2001. In 2002, he co-founded (with Lars Förberg) the investment firm Amaranth Capital and in 2003 the name was changed to Cevian Capital. The fund invests...

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Barry Sternlicht – Investor Profile

Barry Sternlicht – Investor Profile

Posted by | Mar 28, 2018 |

Barry Sternlicht (November 27, 1960, New York City) is the is the founder, chairman, and CEO of Starwood Capital Group, an investment fund with $51 billion in assets under management. He is also chairman of Starwood Property Trust, the largest commercial mortgage REIT in the US and he is chairman of Starwood Waypoint Homes. In 2010, Commercial Property Executive named Barry Sternlicht “Executive of the Year” and “Investor of the Year”. Sternlicht is the son of a Holocaust survivor from Poland, Maurycy Sternlicht. His father immigrated to the US where he worked as a plant manager, his mother was...

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John Overdeck under performing hedge funds grow

John Overdeck under performing hedge funds grow

Posted by | Mar 21, 2018 |

The number of under performing hedge funds grows despite the advent of a quantitative firm using cutting edge technologies in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data analysis. John Overdeck co-founder of New York-based Two Sigma is one such quantitative firm with 51 billion USD (2017) AUM and it still struggles to make money. Two Sigma’s Compass fund also joined the list of under performing hedge funds. The fund trades commodities and currency futures across markets. But the fund is down 5.7% this year and lost money for its investors in January and February. John Overdeck co-founder of New...

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