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Lex van Dam – Investor Profile

Lex van Dam – Investor Profile

Posted by | Feb 16, 2018 |

Lex van Dam (born Drachten, Netherlands 1968) is a Dutch hedge fund manager. Lex van Dam specializes in trading in equities, currencies and financial derivatives. He has been dubbed the man who teaches traders how to trade. He earned a Master of Science degree from Econometrics and Investments at the University of Groningen. His professional career began in 1992, trading stocks for Goldman Sachs where he worked for ten years, latterly as head of the equities proprietary trading desk. Lex van Dam then headed money at GLG which, at the time, was Europe’s largest hedge fund. Lex van Dam...

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Jim Rogers says the next bear market will be worst in our life

Jim Rogers says the next bear market will be worst in our life

Posted by | Feb 16, 2018 |

Jim Rogers, 75, billionaire investor and chairman of Roger holdings reckons that the “next bear market will be worst in his life”. To call last weeks sell-off in assets a correction or the beginning of a new mild bear market would be too optimistic, according to the seasoned investor Jim Rogers. The cumulative wisdom of some of the world’s top investors is warning of serious trouble ahead. Bear growls have recently been heard from Peter Schiff who also believes “that we are near the end game”. Even Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio (the world’s largest hedge fund with AUM of US...

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Jim Rogers – Investor Profile

Jim Rogers – Investor Profile

Posted by | Feb 16, 2018 |

Jim Rogers (October 19, 1942, Baltimore, Maryland, US) is a businessman, investor, traveler, financial commentator and author based in Singapore. He has a current personal net worth of approximately $400 million USD. Jim Rogers is known for co-founding the Quantum Fund with George Soros which achieved Stella returns of 4200% over a decade, by contrast, the S&P advanced about 47% during the same time period. He is also known for being the creator of the Rogers International Commodities Index (RICI). The RICI tracks 38 commodity futures contracts from 13 international exchanges. Moreover, because the index has had very few...

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T.Boone Pickens – Investor Profile

T.Boone Pickens – Investor Profile

Posted by | Feb 12, 2018 |

Thomas Pickens (May 22, 1928, Holdenville, Oklahoma) is an American business magnate and financier with a net worth of $500 million (2016). T.Boone Pickens chairs the hedge fund BP Capital Management. He remained a closely followed Oracle of the energy markets. He was a well-known corporate raider which made him a celebrity during the 1980s. At age 12, Pickens delivered newspapers. He quickly expanded his paper route from 28 papers to 156. Pickens later cited his boyhood job as an early introduction to “expanding quickly by acquisition”. Thomas Pickens graduated in geology from Oklahoma State University in 1951. He...

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John Petry – Investor Profile

John Petry – Investor Profile

Posted by | Feb 12, 2018 |

John Petry is another relatively unknown hedge fund manager who has consistently managed to achieve alpha returns in any market condition. Petry’s weighted average return was a phenomenal 205% in the past year, including 22% gains in 2017. John Petry’s Sessa Capital disproves the view that the hedge fund industry is unable to generate alpha returns and is in a crisis. Some of the top-performing funds are small. Moreover, they don’t get much media coverage because they are big fish swimming in a small pond unlike the hedge fund moguls with multi-billion funds under management. So the industry’s titans...

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