The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World's Top Hedge Funds (42 page)

Hedge fund managers, experts and lobbyists appear before the House Financial Services Committee in Washington on Tuesday, March 13, 2007. From left: E. Gerald Corrigan, Goldman Sachs & Company; Kenneth D. Brody, Taconic Capital Advisors LLC; James S. Chanos, president of Kynikos Associates; George Hall, chief executive of Clinton Group; Jeffrey Matthews, Ram Partners; Andrew Golden, Princeton University Investment Company; and Professor Stephen J. Brown of New York University.

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The New York Times
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Marc Lasry and Sonia Gardner at the ages of 6 and 4 in Marrakesh before they immigrated to the United States.

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Sonia Gardner

Marc and Sonia at the 100 Women in Hedge Funds event in 2011 supporting Alliance for a Healthier Generation, a program tackling the problem of childhood obesity across the country.

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Sonia Gardner

David Tepper, minority owner of the Pittsburgh Steelers, in team gear ahead of their race to Superbowl XLV, 2011.

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David Tepper

David Tepper with the Class of 2004 from Carnegie Mellon’s newly named David A. Tepper School of Business.

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Carnegie Mellon’s David A. Tepper School of Business

Bill Ackman during a fishing trip at the Rio Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina in 2008.

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William Ackman

Bill Ackman scubadiving 120 feet under in Batu Kapal, Indonesia in 2010.

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William Ackman

The early days in Daniel Loeb’s first office, 1995.

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Third Point

Daniel Loeb surfing the Mentawi Islands, 2009.

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Nadirah Zakariya

Garry Kasparov (
left
), former world chess champion, and Boaz Weinstein (
right
), founder of Saba Capital, play a consultation game in the Hudson Square Ballroom in New York, May 17, 2010. Many leading investors, like Weinstein, are recognized experts in chess, and say an affinity for the game is favored in hiring as games of strategy mirror the strategy of financial decision-making.

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The New York Times
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Boaz Weinstein (center) alongside Warren Buffett (far left) at the NetJets First Annual Poker Championship in June 2005.

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Boaz Weinstein