The LSE Directory
- Bill Ackman: Activist investor and Pershing Square founder; famous for a $2.6B COVID credit default swap win in 2020.
- Carl Icahn: Pioneer of corporate activist investing and hostile takeovers, active on Wall Street since the 1980s.
- David Einhorn: Value-oriented long/short manager who shorted Lehman Brothers months before its 2008 collapse.
- David Tepper: Distressed debt and macro investor; Appaloosa Management returned 133% in 2009 buying bank assets.
- George Soros: Global macro legend who broke the Bank of England in 1992 and pioneered the theory of reflexivity.
- Howard Marks: Oaktree Capital co-founder; revered for distressed debt investing and influential investor memos since 1990.
- Jim Simons: Mathematician who built the Medallion Fund, arguably the greatest investing track record in history.
- John Paulson: Event-driven manager who made $15 billion in 2007 shorting the US subprime housing market.
- Ken Griffin: Founder of Citadel, one of the most profitable hedge fund groups and leading US equity market maker.
- Michael Burry: Value investor who predicted the 2007-08 housing collapse and was depicted in The Big Short.
- Paul Tudor Jones: Global macro trader who tripled money on Black Monday 1987 and founded Tudor Investment Corp.
- Peter Lynch: Managed Fidelity Magellan 1977-1990 at 29.2% annual returns; author of 'One Up on Wall Street'.
- Ray Dalio: Founder of Bridgewater Associates and creator of the All Weather risk-parity portfolio strategy.
- Stanley Druckenmiller: Global macro trader with 30 consecutive positive years; co-executed the 1992 Bank of England trade.
- Steve Cohen: Founder of Point72 and former SAC Capital; one of Wall Street's most prolific stock traders.
