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4 fund managers that beat the downturn

  • A 10,000% return
  • Experts' tactics laid bare
  • Ackman's 5 best bets

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Find out what makes hedge fund managers tick, and crucially, how these traits have helped reap untold rewards during a market crash

How to find your trading edge with Patrick Reid

Bill Ackman: a history of controversial decisions

Bill Ackman has made a killing, and made some enemies, making controversial investment decisions

How to find your trading edge with Patrick Reid

How poker playing hedge fund managers handle high stakes

What do successful hedge fund managers Carl Icahn, David Einhorn and Steve Cohen have in common besides being investing greats? They’re all ace poker players

How to find your trading edge with Patrick Reid

Ray Dalio: the mind behind the world’s largest hedge fund

Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, lost $25bn as it failed to identify the impact COVID-19 would have on markets. How does Dalio plan to remedy this?

What you’ll learn

What unites succesful fund managers

Understand the make-up of a contrarian mindset and learn to identify opportunities most overlook

Their strategies, both good and bad

The lessons learnt not only from winning strategies but from difficult losses too

The record returns

A $27m bet that netted a 10,000% return of $2.6bn, plus many more like it.

These returns likely surpass any other investment that you can think of over the period you have been invested with us

Mark Spitznagel