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Sam Zell – Investor Profile

Sam Zell (September 27, 1941) is an American businessman, with investments in commercial real estate, energy, manufacturing, logistics/transportation, healthcare, and communications. He has a personal Net worth $5.1 billion and is number 324 on the Forbes billionaire list. Sam Zell is the founder and chairman of Equity International, a private investment firm which focused on building real estate-related businesses in international emerging markets. In addition, Zell maintains substantial interests in several public companies listed on the New York Stock Exchange, including: Equity Residential (EQR), the largest apartment real estate investment trust (or REIT) in the U.S.; Equity LifeStyle Properties...

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John Overdeck – Investor Profile

John Overdeck is a US hedge fund manager with a net worth of US$4.8 billion (May 2017). John Overdeck is ranked 9th Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers, according to Forbes. He is the co-founder and co-chairman of Two Sigma Investments, a New York City-based hedge fund with $41 billion in assets under management as of May 2017. In 2016, Overdeck reported $375 million in earnings John Overdeck is a maths prodigy. He received his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and master’s degree in statistics from Stanford University. In 1986, he was an International Mathematics Olympiad silver medalist Prior to co-founding Two...

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David Tepper – Investor Profile

David Tepper (September 11, 1957, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania ) is an investor, hedge fund manager. Net Worth US$11.7 billion (February 2017). In the 2012 tax year, Institutional Investor’s Alpha ranked David Tepper first, for earning a $2.2 billion paycheck marking him the world’s 4th highest earning hedge fund manager. Carnegie Mellon University has a business school named after Tepper, (Tepper School of Business) following Tepper’s donation of $67 million to Carnegie Mellon University. David Tepper was raised in a modest Jewish family on the East End of Pittsburgh. His father was an accountant and his mother an elementary school teacher....

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David Shaw – Investor Profile

DDavid Shaw (March 29, 1951) is a US investor, computer scientist, and hedge fund manager. He founded D. E. Shaw & Co., a hedge fund company. Net Worth US$3.6 billion (March 2014, Forbes). Daivd Shaw is known as the “King Quant” because of his firm’s pioneering role in high-speed quantitative trading. He is “the most intriguing and mysterious force on Wall Street”, according to Fortune magazine who made his fortune exploiting inefficiencies in financial markets with the help of state-of-the-art high-speed computer networks. David Shaw earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, San Diego and obtained his...

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Daniel Och – Investor Profile

Daniel Och (1961) is an American hedge fund manager, chairman, and CEO of Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, a global hedge fund and alternative asset management firm. Daniel Och has a personal Net Worth of approximately $3.2 billion USD, according to Forbes Magazine (February 2017). He was rated 17 amongst the world’s highest earning hedge fund managers by Forbes in 2014. Och has a B.S. in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He began his career in 1982 at Goldman Sachs in the Risk Arbitrage Department. He was later the Head of Proprietary Trading in the...

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