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Robert Mercer – Investor Profile

Robert Mercer – Investor Profile

Posted by | Mar 17, 2018 |

Robert Mercer (July 11, 1946, San Jose, California, US) co CEO of Renaissance Technologies, a top hedge fund. Mercer is a computer scientist and a developer in artificial intelligence. Mercer grew up in New Mexico. He developed an early interest in computers and in 1964 attended a National Youth Science Camp in West Virginia where he learned to program a donated IBM computer. He went on to get a bachelor’s degree in physics and mathematics from the University of New Mexico. He earned a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1972. Robert Mercer...

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Philippe Jabre – Investor Profile

Philippe Jabre – Investor Profile

Posted by | Mar 17, 2018 |

Philippe Jabre (Beirut, 1960) has a net worth of US$1.15 billion (March 2015). He studied at College Notre-Dame de Jamhour. He graduated from Concordia University in 1980 with a BBA and earned an MBA from Columbia Business School in 1982, where he is a member of the Board of Overseers. He is the founder Jabre Capital Partners a global asset management company which was established in 2006 and headquartered in Geneva with an investment office in Dubai. Jabre is also known to be an extreme skier with a taste for Havana cigars and high-stakes trades. Philippe Jabre trained at...

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Renaud De Planta – Investor Profile

Renaud De Planta – Investor Profile

Posted by | Mar 17, 2018 |

Renaud De Planta (1963, Switzerland) is a Swiss fund manager and the Chief Executive Officer and Director of Pictet Asset Management Limited. Pictet Group was founded in 1805 in Geneva, Switzerland, and currently employs around 4,000 people. Pictet Asset Management is an independent asset manager with over USD 197 billion (CHF 192 billion/EUR 164 billion/GBP 146 billion as at 31 December 2017) AUM. The fund provides specialist investment services through segregated accounts and investment funds for their clients. Pictet Asset Management manages funds for some of the world’s largest pension funds, financial institutions, sovereign wealth funds, intermediaries across a...

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Bridgewater $22bn European Big Short

Bridgewater $22bn European Big Short

Posted by | Mar 14, 2018 |

Bridgewater’s $22bn European ‘big short’ last month is evidence that the big bears are coming out of hibernation. Since February’s stock market correction bulls and bears have been locked in a messy scrum near key support levels. With the era of central bank monetary accommodation drawing to an uncertain conclusion, the bulls are slowly realizing that they are on their own this time. Buying stocks in anticipation of central bank asset buying isn’t the game anymore. Bridgewater’s $22bn European ‘big short’ last month is evidence that the big bears are coming out of hibernation   The central banks are...

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Crispin Odey – Investor Profile

Crispin Odey – Investor Profile

Posted by | Mar 10, 2018 |

Crispin Odey (January 1959, British) is a London-based hedge fund manager and the founding partner of Odey Asset Management. In April 2011 the firm had $6.5 to $7 billion AUM. He is “known for his bearish outlook” on the markets. Crispin Odey was born in East Yorkshire. He was educated at Harrow School and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford in 1980 with a degree in history and economics. His mother was from the “prominent” Clitherow family. Soon after graduation, he found out that his father had huge debts, and the trustees made him responsible for Hotham Hall, a 4,000-acre...

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