| 2018 RANKING | 2019 RANKING | MANAGER | PORTFOLIO MANAGER(S) | AUM ($BN) | NET GAINS SINCE INCEPTION ($BN) | NET GAINS IN 2019 ($BN) | YEAR OF INCEPTION |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1 | Bridgewater | Ray Dalio | 131.9 | 58.5 | 0.6 | 1975 |
| 2 | 2 | Soros Fund Management* | George Soros / Various | 27.0 | 43.9 | - | 1973 |
| 3 | 3 | Citadel | Ken Griffin | 29.7 | 35.6 | 4.9 | 1990 |
| 7 | 4 | Lone Pine | Steve Mandel | 24.0 | 33.2 | 7.3 | 1996 |
| 4 | 5 | DE Shaw | Various | 26.4 | 31.9 | 2.8 | 1988 |
| 5 | 6 | Baupost | Seth Klarman | 29.0 | 29.8 | 2.4 | 1983 |
| 8 | 7 | Viking | Andreas Halvorsen | 23.8 | 29.7 | 4.3 | 1999 |
| 10 | 8 | Elliott Associates | Paul Singer | 39.0 | 28.3 | 3.2 | 1977 |
| 6 | 9 | Och Ziff/Sculptor | Daniel Och/ Jimmy Levin | 34.0 | 27.5 | 1.3 | 1994 |
| 9 | 10 | Appaloosa | David Tepper | 11.0 | 26.7 | 1.5 | 1993 |
| 11 | 11 | Farallon | Tom Steyer / Andrew Spokes | 30.0 | 26.4 | 3.7 | 1987 |
| 12 | 12 | Millennium | Israel Englander | 40.0 | 25.8 | 3.4 | 1989 |
| 13 | 13 | SAC/Point 72 | Steve Cohen | 15.2 | 23.4 | 2.3 | 1992 |
| - | 14 | TCI | Sir Christopher Hohn | 30.0 | 22.8 | 8.4 | 2004 |
| 17 | 15 | Renaissance Technologies | James Simons | 63.0 | 22.3 | 5.6 | 2005 |
| 14 | 16 | Brevan Howard | Alan Howard | 7.3 | 19.6 | 0.8 | 2003 |
| 16 | 17 | Paulson | John Paulson | 6.2 | 19.0 | 1.1 | 1994 |
| - | 18 | Egerton | John Armitage | 22.1 | 18.9 | 5.0 | 1995 |
| 15 | 19 | Moore | Louis Moore Bacon | 7.2 | 18.6 | 0.3 | 1990 |
| 18 | 20 | King Street | Brian Higgins, Francis Biondi | 20.0 | 15.9 | 0.3 | 1995 |
