Author: The Wealth Training Company

Bridgewater $22bn European Big Short

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 (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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John Armitage – Investor Profile

John Armitage (December 1959, British) is the UK’s ninth richest hedge fund manager, the chief investment officer and a co-founder of Egerton Capital with $18 billion AUM at the end of 2017. The Sunday Times Rich List (Magazine, page 65) 7 May 2017 estimated John Armitage’s personal net worth at £540 million. He earned a degree in modern history from Pembroke College, Cambridge in 1981. He then joined Morgan Grenfell in the same year. He was a director of Morgan Grenfell Asset Management from March 1991 until he left in 1994. John Armitage and William Bollinger co-founded Egerton Capital...

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Nicolai Tangen – Investor Profile

Nicolai Tangen (Norway) is an Investor/ fund manager. He founded AKO Capital. Nicolai Tangen has a Bachelor’s degree in Finance from The Wharton School (1989-1991). Between July 1986 and December 1987, Nicolai served in the Norwegian Armed Forces’ School of Intelligence and Security, where he studied Russian language and was trained in interrogation and translation. He was a partner at Egerton Capital (1997-2002) and built up and headed the Nordic department at Cazenove & Co. (1992-1997). He has completed a Master’s degree in the History of Art at the Courtauld Institute of Art, London. He has also recently finished...

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Naïm Abou-Jaoudé – Investor Profile

Naïm Abou-Jaoudé (9 July 1966 in Jal-El-Dib, Lebanon) graduated from the Institute of Political Studies in Paris (IEP-Sciences Po) and holds a master’s degree in Economics and Finance from Université Paris II – Panthéon Assas. He is currently Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Candriam Investors Group and Chairman of New York Life Investment Management International, global investment manager part of New York Life. Naïm Abou-Jaoudé has spent his entire career in asset management and finance. Between 1996 and 1999, he oversaw the investment management equities and derivatives department at Alfi Gestion and UBS Asset Management France. The division was...

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