50 Largest US Hedge Funds (AUM)

Below is a list of the Top 50 US Hedge Funds including location, strategy and AUM, ranked by Assets Under Management for 2009:
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TOP 50 US HEDGE FUNDS

1. Bridgewater Associates
Location: Westport, CT
Strategy: Multi Strategy, Global Macro
AUM: $38.00 billion

2. JPMorgan Asset Management
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Long/Short Equity
AUM: $32.89 billion

3. Paulson & Co.
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Credit, Multi Strategy, Merger Arbitrage
AUM: $29.00 billion

4. D.E. Shaw & Company
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Multi Strategy, Global Macro
AUM: $28.60 billion

5. Och-Ziff Capital Management
Location: New York, NY
AUM: $22.10 billion

6. Soros Fund Management
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Global Macro
AUM: $21.00 billion

7. Goldman Sachs Asset Management
Location: New York, NY
AUM: $20.59 billion

8. Renaissance Technologies Corporation
Location: East Setauket, NY
Strategy: Quantitative Long/Short Equity
AUM: $20.00 billion

9. Farallon Capital Management
Location: San Francisco, CA
Strategy: Multi Strategy
AUM: $20.00 billion

10. Baupost Group
Location: Boston, MA
AUM: $16.80 billion

11. Moore Capital Management
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Global Macro, Fixed Income, Long/Short Equity
AUM: $16.50 billion

12. Avenue Capital Group
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Distressed Debt
AUM: $16.20 billion

13. King Street Capital Management
Location: New York, NY
AUM: $15.90 billion

14. Angelo, Gordon & Company
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Multi strategy
AUM: $14.00 billion

15. Fortress Investment Group
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Global Macro, Event Driven
AUM: $13.66 billion

16. Lone Pine Capital
Location: Greenwich, CT
Strategy: Long/Short Equity
AUM: $13.00 billion

17 . Elliott Management Corporation
Location: New York, NY
AUM: $12.80 billion

18. Eton Park Capital
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Multi Strategy
AUM: $12.00 billion

19. SAC Capital Advisors
Location: Stamford, CT
AUM: $12.00 billion

20. Cerberus Capital Management
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Distressed Debt
AUM: $11.90 billion

21. FX Concepts
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Emerging Market Debt
AUM: $11.74 billion

22. Millenium Management
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Multi Strategy
AUM: $11.70 billion

23. Tudor Investment Corporation
Location: Greenwich, CT
Strategy: Long/Short Equity, Global Macro
AUM: $11.37 billion

24. Citadel Investment Group
Location: Chicago, IL
Strategy: Multi Strategy
AUM: $10.72 billion

25. TPG-Axon Capital Management
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Global Macro
AUM: $10.60 billion

26. ESL Investments
Location: Greenwich, CT
AUM: $10.50 billion

27. Duquesne Capital Management
Location: Pittsburgh, PA
Strategy: Distressed Debt, Multi Strategy
AUM: $10.00 billion

28. Wellington Capital Management
Location: Boston, MA
AUM: $10.00 billion

29. GoldenTree Asset Management
Location: New York, NY
AUM: $10.00 billion

30. Davidson Kempner Capital Management
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Distress Debt, Long/Short Equity, Multi Strategy
AUM: $9.70 billion

31. Maverick Capital
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Long/Short Equity
AUM: $9.70 billion

32. Viking Global Investors
Location: Greenwich, CT
AUM: $9.66 billion

33. Canyon Capital Advisors
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Strategy: Arbitrage
AUM: $9.38 billion

34. GMO
Location: Boston, MA
AUM: $9.00 billion

35. Bain Capital
Location: Boston, MA
AUM: $8.80 billion

36. Stark Investments
Location: St. Francis, WI
Strategy: Multi Strategy, Emerging Markets
AUM: $8.67 billion

37. Convexity Capital Management
Location: Boston, MA
AUM: $8.50 billion

38. QVT Financial
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Multi Strategy
AUM: $8.50 billion

39. Perry Capital
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Multi Strategy
AUM: $8.33 billion

40. Adage Capital Management
Location: Boston, MA
AUM: $8.00 billion

41. Caxton Associates
Location: New York, NY
AUM: $8.00 billion

42. Atticus Capital
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Activist
AUM: $8.00 billion

43. York Capital Management
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Event Driven, Distressed Debt, Multi Strategy
AUM: $7.80 billion

44. Highfields Capital Management
Location: Boston, MA
AUM: $7.80 billion

45. Black River Asset Management
Location: Minnetonka, MN
Strategy: Multi Strategy
AUM: $7.44 billion

46. Harbinger Capital Partners
Location: New York, NY
AUM: $7.10 billion

47. Taconic Capital Advisors
Location: New York, NY
AUM: $7.10 billion

48. Magnetar Capital
Location: New York, NY
AUM: $7.10 billion

49. HBK Capital Management
Location: Dallas, TX
Strategy: Multi Strategy
AUM: $7.10 billion

50. Marathon Asset Management
Location: New York, NY
Strategy: Emerging Markets, Long/Short Equity, Event Driven, Distressed Debt
AUM: $7.00 billion

Source: Institutional Investor

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