Top 100 Global Hedge Funds 2020

Context

A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as short selling, leverage, and derivatives. Financial regulators generally restrict hedge fund marketing to institutional investors, high net worth individuals and o and others who are considered sufficiently sophisticated.

Content

Below is a list of the top 100 largest hedge funds in the world, ranked by assets under management (AUM) for 2020.

Nearly 75% of the largest hedge fund companies by AUM are based in the United States. The UK is also home to a significant number of top hedge fund managers.

As of Q3, 2020 the world’s biggest hedge fund management company is AQR Capital Management, with nearly $250 billion USD in assets under management as of September 1, 2020. Global macro hedge funds are the most highly represented strategy among the world’s 100 largest hedge funds.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is scarped from hedgelists.com, I would like to thank their team for providing us with such great data.

Inspiration

I am working on this data to analyze how the assets under management(AUM) changed last year from the third quarter of 2020 for the world's top 100 hedge funds.

Also, the strategies adopted by the world's top hedge funds ### Context

A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as short selling, leverage, and derivatives. Financial regulators generally restrict hedge fund marketing to institutional investors, high net worth individuals and o and others who are considered sufficiently sophisticated.

Content

Below is a list of the top 100 largest hedge funds in the world, ranked by assets under management (AUM) for 2020.

Nearly 75% of the largest hedge fund companies by AUM are based in the United States. The UK is also home to a significant number of top hedge fund managers.

As of Q3, 2020 the world’s biggest hedge fund management company is AQR Capital Management, with nearly $250 billion USD in assets under management as of September 1, 2020. Global macro hedge funds are the most highly represented strategy among the world’s 100 largest hedge funds.

Acknowledgements

This dataset is scarped from hedgelists.com, I would like to thank their team for providing us with such great data.

Inspiration

I am working on this data to analyze how the assets under management(AUM) changed last year from the third quarter of 2020 for the world's top 100 hedge funds.

Also, the strategies adopted by the world's top hedge funds provided them with returns even in one of the most bizarre times in the world, i.e. covid pandemic.