Acadian Asset Management: Boston-based quant manager overseeing $195.7 billion (Mar 2026) across systematic equity, credit and alternatives strategies.
Appaloosa Management: David Tepper's distressed debt hedge fund, largely converted to a single family office managing his own capital since 2019.
AQR Capital Management: Systematic, academically grounded factor-investing firm running hedge fund, mutual fund and UCITS strategies across global markets.
Aspect Capital: London-based systematic manager founded in 1997 by AHL alumni, running trend-following and macro futures strategies with over $9bn AUM.
Balyasny Asset Management: Chicago hedge fund manager running semi-autonomous pod teams across equities, macro, commodities and systematic strategies, about $37B AUM.
Baupost Group: Boston-based value investing firm founded by Seth Klarman in 1982, running roughly $24 billion for families, foundations and endowments.
Brevan Howard Asset Management: Jersey based global macro hedge fund manager running discretionary rates, FX and credit strategies plus a crypto arm, BH Digital.
Bridgewater Associates: Global macro hedge fund running Pure Alpha and All Weather strategies for pension funds, endowments, and sovereign wealth funds.
Campbell & Company: Baltimore-based systematic CTA running trend-following and multi-strategy futures programs since 1972.
Capital Fund Management (CFM): Paris-founded quantitative hedge fund manager running about $29 billion in systematic, multi-asset strategies built on academic research.
Caxton Associates: Global macro hedge fund founded 1983 by Bruce Kovner, led from London by CEO Andrew Law, trading FX, rates, equities and commodities.
Citadel LLC: Multi-strategy hedge fund organised as a pod shop of independent trading teams in equities, credit, macro and commodities.
D.E. Shaw & Co.: Hybrid quantitative and discretionary investment firm managing over $100 billion, founded by computer scientist David E. Shaw in 1988.
Elliott Investment Management: Activist hedge fund founded in 1977 by Paul Singer, managing about $80 billion across distressed debt, credit and equity campaigns.
ExodusPoint Capital Management: New York multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2017 by ex-Millennium chiefs Gelband and Lee, running fixed income and equities trading books.
Graham Capital Management: Connecticut-based global macro and systematic trend-following manager founded by Kenneth Tropin in 1994, managing roughly $21 billion.
Man Group: World's largest publicly listed hedge fund manager, running $228.7bn via Man AHL (systematic) and Man GLG (discretionary) strategies.
Marshall Wace: British hedge fund manager blending fundamental long/short equity investing with its proprietary TOPS quantitative alpha-capture platform.
Millennium Management: Multi-strategy hedge fund allocating capital to 340+ independent trading teams under a shared risk framework; manages roughly $87 billion.
Moore Capital Management: Veteran New York global macro fund founded by Louis Bacon, now run mainly as his proprietary capital vehicle
Numerai: Hedge fund that trades a meta-model of stock predictions crowdsourced from thousands of data scientists staking Numerai's NMR token.
PanAgora Asset Management: Boston quantitative manager running systematic equity, multi asset and risk parity strategies for institutional investors.
PDT Partners: Quantitative hedge fund built on statistical arbitrage models, spun out of Morgan Stanley's Process Driven Trading desk in 2012 to 2013.
Point72 Asset Management: Steve Cohen's Stamford hedge fund, deploying equities, systematic, macro and private-credit strategies via independent teams.
Qube Research & Technologies (QRT): London quant hedge fund that scaled from an $800 million 2018 Credit Suisse spinout to roughly $38 billion in AUM by early 2026.
Renaissance Technologies: Secretive quantitative hedge fund manager whose employee-only Medallion Fund averaged about 66% gross annual returns from 1988 to 2018.
Rokos Capital Management: London global macro hedge fund founded 2015 by Brevan Howard co-founder Chris Rokos; trades rates, FX, equities and commodities.
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors: New York multi-manager hedge fund running ~140 internal portfolio management teams across quant, fundamental equity, tactical trading and macro.
Squarepoint Capital: Quantitative multi-strategy firm running automated statistical-arbitrage and machine-learning strategies across equities, futures and FX.
Systematica Investments: Systematic hedge fund manager founded in 2015 by Leda Braga, running trend-following and macro futures strategies from Jersey.
The Voleon Group: Berkeley quant fund using machine learning for statistical arbitrage trading, managing roughly $23 billion in assets.
Third Point LLC: Dan Loeb's New York hedge fund, founded 1995, blends activist equity campaigns with a fast-growing $21 billion credit and CLO platform.
Tiger Global Management: Chase Coleman's New York crossover fund, running public equity long/short strategies alongside private venture and growth equity investing.
Two Sigma Investments: Quantitative hedge fund applying machine learning and distributed computing to systematic trading, managing roughly $70 billion in assets.
Verition Fund Management: Greenwich, CT multi-strategy hedge fund managing about $12.6 billion across six strategies including credit, macro and quant.
Winton Group: British systematic trend-following firm founded 1997 by David Harding; trades quantitative strategies in global futures and equities.
WorldQuant LLC: Quantitative hedge fund that combines millions of algorithmic trading signals crowdsourced via its public BRAIN platform.
