All Investors (150)
Ranked by combined score across philosophy alignment, concentration, rationality, integrity, track record, transparency, relevance, and AGI awareness.
Charlie Munger
Daily Journal / Berkshire Hathaway
Buffett's intellectual partner who transformed value investing from cigar butts to wonderful businesses, embodying concentrated, long-term, downside-aware inves...
Warren Buffett
Berkshire Hathaway
The GOAT; our philosophical foundation, but Berkshire's size limits actionable idea overlap -- follow for philosophy, temperament, and market signals.
Nick Sleep
Nomad Investment Partnership (retired)
The most intellectually original investor of the past 30 years -- his 'scale economics shared' and 'destination analysis' frameworks, hyper-concentrated Amazon/...
Li Lu
Himalaya Capital Management
Munger's only external manager; extreme concentration, 25yr+ exceptional record, deeply aligned with our philosophy but low transparency.
Mohnish Pabrai
Pabrai Investment Funds / Dhandho Funds
Shameless cloner with Buffett fee structure; highly concentrated, transparent, strong 25yr record, Micron position aligns with AGI thesis.
Cliff Sosin
CAS Investment Partners
Ultra-concentrated investor with 2-3 stock portfolio (Amazon, Meta); possibly the closest philosophical match to our approach; excellent track record but very l...
Chuck Akre
Akre Capital Management
Master of compounding with a 25+ year track record of market-beating returns using the 'three-legged stool' framework -- exceptional concentration, integrity, a...
Chris Hohn
TCI Fund Management
One of the best-performing hedge funds in history running an ultra-concentrated 9-stock, $53.6B portfolio of monopoly-quality businesses -- exceptional alignmen...
Bryan Lawrence
Oakcliff Capital
Exceptional concentrated value investor with 17% annualized returns over 20 years in ~11 high-quality positions; highly aligned with our approach.
John Huber
Saber Capital Management
Highly concentrated Buffett-style investor with 5-8 positions; strong overlap with our philosophy on concentration, quality, and downside protection; track his...
Francois Rochon
Giverny Capital
Canada's finest quality compounder investor with a 30+ year track record of 15%+ annualized returns, extraordinary transparency through annual letters since 199...
Robert Vinall
RV Capital
Intellectually honest European concentrated investor with 12-stock portfolio and exceptionally thoughtful annual letters; strong philosophical alignment.
Terry Smith
Fundsmith
Fearless forensic accountant turned quality compounder with a 15-year track record of 15%+ annualized returns, a Meta/Microsoft-heavy portfolio, and 'buy good c...
Christopher Bloomstran
Semper Augustus Investments
The most analytically rigorous investor alive -- his 100+ page annual letters and definitive Berkshire Hathaway intrinsic value analysis provide a masterclass i...
Philip Fisher
Fisher & Co
The father of growth investing whose concentrated, long-term, qualitative approach to finding exceptional businesses is a direct intellectual ancestor of our in...
Seth Klarman
Baupost Group
The gold standard of margin-of-safety investing with a 40-year track record of protecting capital, though his multi-asset complexity and tech avoidance limit di...
Jean-Marie Eveillard
First Eagle Investments (retired)
Legendary capital preservation-first value investor whose tech bubble discipline and 'lose shareholders not their money' philosophy is a masterclass in integrit...
Norbert Lou
Punch Card Capital
Ultra-concentrated Buffett disciple with 3-5 massive positions in wide-moat businesses; philosophically ideal but nearly zero public transparency.
Pat Dorsey
Dorsey Asset Management
The foremost thinker on economic moats, running a concentrated portfolio of high-ROIC compounders with long reinvestment runways -- intellectually the closest m...
Thomas Russo
Gardner Russo & Quinn
Quintessential long-term compounder with 35+ years of disciplined global brand investing and impeccable integrity, though near-zero tech exposure limits relevan...
Francis Chou
Chou Associates Management
Self-taught Canadian deep value investor with exceptional intellectual honesty, Buffett-like shareholder letters, and strong long-term returns despite painful r...
Aswath Damodaran
NYU Stern School of Business (academic, no fund)
The world's foremost valuation teacher; unmatched in transparency and intellectual rigor; invaluable as a framework provider but not a concentrated conviction i...
Tom Gayner
Markel Group (formerly Markel Corporation)
Patient, principled Berkshire-style capital allocator who built Markel into a mini-conglomerate with excellent long-term returns, high integrity, and strong ali...
Allan Mecham
Arlington Value Capital
Perhaps the purest modern expression of concentrated, patient, downside-focused value investing — extraordinary returns with 5-8 positions, voluntarily returned...
Bill Nygren
Oakmark Funds / Harris Associates
Disciplined GARP investor with 40+ years at one firm, focused on growing intrinsic value per share, strong track record, and a willingness to own tech within a...
Marty Whitman
Third Avenue Management
One of the most intellectually rigorous value investors in history; his 'safe AND cheap' framework, balance-sheet primacy, and credit-analysis approach to equit...
Ted Weschler
Berkshire Hathaway
Grew IRA from $70K to $264M; exceptional record but positions buried in Berkshire's 13F, limiting real-time tracking utility.
Peter Cundill
Mackenzie Cundill (Cundill Value Fund)
Legacy Canadian global deep value investor with a superb 30-year track record, meticulous diaries, and one of the purest Ben Graham approaches ever practiced —...
Chris Davis
Davis Advisors
Third-generation value investor with $2B+ co-invested in his own funds, Berkshire board member, and a multi-decade compounder approach -- exceptional integrity...
Benjamin Graham
Graham-Newman Corp
The father of value investing whose margin-of-safety framework is the foundation of our floor-price philosophy, though his diversified quantitative approach div...
Bill Gurley
Benchmark
One of the greatest venture capitalists ever, with exceptional analytical rigor and integrity -- a superb intellectual resource on technology business models bu...
Stanley Druckenmiller
Duquesne Family Office
Possibly the greatest risk-adjusted track record in hedge fund history, with strong AI conviction and concentration tendencies, but his macro-driven, actively t...
John Templeton
Templeton Growth Fund (deceased 2008)
One of history's greatest investors whose 'buy at maximum pessimism' philosophy and 38-year track record validate deep contrarian value investing.
David Poppe
Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb (Sequoia Fund)
Buffett-lineage concentrated value fund with high transparency and strong philosophical alignment, though scarred by the Valeant debacle.
Michael Mauboussin
Counterpoint Global / Morgan Stanley Investment Management
The investment industry's premier meta-thinker; expectations investing and base rate frameworks are essential tools; more researcher than portfolio manager but...
Howard Marks
Oaktree Capital Management
The greatest investment thinker/writer alive with unmatched transparency through his memos, but primarily a credit/distressed investor whose 13F equity holdings...
Mason Hawkins
Southeastern Asset Management / Longleaf Partners
Deep value purist with exceptional integrity and $1.2B co-investment, whose concentrated, engaged approach matches our philosophy perfectly on paper -- but 15 y...
Arnold Van Den Berg
Century Management
Self-taught Holocaust survivor who built a 50-year track record through disciplined value investing, large cash buffers, and psychological mastery — a near-perf...
Murray Stahl
Horizon Kinetics
Deeply original contrarian thinker with a royalty-company-focused, long-term, concentrated approach and exceptionally transparent research, though heavy commodi...
Guy Spier
Aquamarine Capital
Deeply principled Buffett disciple with excellent behavioral discipline and high integrity, but average returns and cloning-based approach mean he's better as a...
Matthew McLennan
First Eagle Investments (Global Value Team)
Thoughtful capital preservation-first global value investor with gold hedge, strong integrity, but too diversified for our concentrated style.
Peter Cundill
Cundill Funds (Peter Cundill & Associates)
Canadian deep-value master who applied Graham's NCAV methodology globally for 30+ years with ~15% annualized returns — a strong philosophical match for our floo...
Nick Train
Lindsell Train
Ultra-long-term, highly concentrated UK quality compounder with a 20+ year track record of outperformance — strong philosophy alignment but avoids technology an...
Stephen Mandel
Lone Pine Capital
Most concentrated Tiger Cub with quality-growth philosophy and 87% in top 10 holdings closely mirrors our high-conviction approach, though his 2019 step-back ma...
Ian Cumming & Joe Steinberg
Leucadia National (now Jefferies Financial Group)
The original 'baby Berkshire' duo compiled a stellar 19% CAGR over 34 years through distressed, contrarian investing across diverse industries, but Leucadia no...
David Tepper
Appaloosa Management
One of the greatest hedge fund track records ever, probability-weighted framework aligns with floor price thinking, and now heavily positioned in AI/tech stocks...
Francisco Garcia Parames
Cobas Asset Management
Spain's top deep value investor with a 21-year 15%+ track record at Bestinver, now running Cobas — strong philosophy alignment on downside protection but explic...
Prem Watsa
Fairfax Financial Holdings
The 'Warren Buffett of Canada' runs an insurance-float value investing model with strong long-term compounding, though a costly 13-year macro hedging error show...
Henry Ellenbogen
Durable Capital Partners
Elite growth stock picker (Morningstar Manager of the Year) running a concentrated $10.6B portfolio of durable growth compounders -- strong on quality and long-...
Gavin Baker
Atreides Management
The most AI-aware traditional fund manager in public equities -- concentrated tech portfolio with strong returns, excellent AI industry commentary, but growth-o...
Bill Ackman
Pershing Square Capital Management
Highly concentrated activist investor evolving toward quality compounders; exceptional transparency but volatile track record with some ego-driven mistakes.
Bill Miller
Miller Value Partners
Legendary contrarian with a 15-year S&P-beating streak and prescient Amazon/Bitcoin calls, but 2008's catastrophic losses from stubborn concentration in collaps...
Wally Weitz
Weitz Investment Management
A quiet, steady Omaha-based Buffett-style value investor with a clean 40-year track record, moderate concentration, and notable willingness to own tech (Meta, A...
Hamish Douglass
Magellan Financial Group
Australian quality-growth investor who built a A$100B firm through concentrated bets on global platform companies, but whose departure and the Alibaba debacle h...
John Neff
Vanguard Windsor Fund
The 31-year contrarian value master whose low-P/E Total Return Ratio provides a useful screening tool, though his diversified mean-reversion approach differs fr...
David Herro
Harris Associates (Oakmark International Fund)
Premier international value stock-picker with 30+ year track record but moderate concentration and limited AGI awareness.
Dennis Hong
ShawSpring Partners
Ultra-concentrated 11-stock growth investor with Yale Endowment pedigree and strong alignment on concentration and long-term orientation, but limited track reco...
Jake Rosser
Coho Capital Management
Quality compounder investor with concentrated portfolio of wide-moat businesses; solid but limited public transparency.
Joel Greenblatt
Gotham Capital / Gotham Asset Management
Legendary early track record (40% for 20 years) with a concentrated special situations approach, but current systematic Magic Formula strategy with 500+ positio...
John Collison & Patrick Collison
Stripe (investor lens)
Extraordinary builder-founders with exceptional integrity and long-term thinking, but they are operators not investors -- no followable portfolio, though Stripe...
Bruce Karsh
Oaktree Capital Management (co-founder)
Philosophically the most aligned in this group — downside-first thinking mirrors our approach perfectly — but primarily a credit investor with opaque positionin...
Andrew Brenton
Turtle Creek Asset Management
Respected Canadian concentrated value manager with 26-year track record; risk-first philosophy aligns but limited public transparency.
Leopold Aschenbrenner
Situational Awareness LP
The most data-driven AGI bull in the world now runs a $5.5B hedge fund -- his 13F portfolio is a roadmap of AGI infrastructure plays (data centers, power, chips...
David Einhorn
Greenlight Capital
Brilliant forensic value investor with great transparency but long/short style, macro overlay, and painful 2015-2020 drought limit alignment with our concentrat...
Philippe Laffont
Coatue Management
MIT-trained technologist running a $40B concentrated tech fund with the strongest AGI awareness in this group and genuine technical understanding of AI, making...
Brad Gerstner
Altimeter Capital
Concentrated tech investor with strong AI conviction and an activist edge, but growth-oriented approach with higher risk tolerance diverges from our downside-fi...
Tobias Carlisle
Acquirers Funds
Intellectually rigorous quantitative deep-value investor whose books and free screener tools are more valuable than his fund track record; strong philosophical...
Rajiv Jain
GQG Partners
Elite global equity investor with outstanding track record and quality-first framework, but governance tolerance and high turnover reduce alignment.
Loews Corporation (Tisch family)
Loews Corporation
Conservative, high-integrity Tisch family conglomerate that buys assets below intrinsic value and returns capital through buybacks, but mid-single-digit returns...
Walter Schloss
Walter & Edwin Schloss Associates
The purest Graham disciple in history — 47 years of 15.3% annualized returns buying diversified baskets of cheap stocks with perfect integrity, but his statisti...
Julian Baker & Felix Baker
Baker Brothers Advisors
Legendary biotech investors with extraordinary returns and deep scientific rigor, but SEC settlement and inherently speculative biotech focus limit alignment wi...
Andreas Halvorsen
Viking Global Investors
Most disciplined Tiger Cub with excellent 25-year track record, strong risk management, and quality-focused approach, but long/short structure and moderate dive...
Egon Durban
Silver Lake
The best technology PE investor alive with outstanding returns (Dell, Alibaba, Skype), crossover public market investments, and deep CEO relationships — the mos...
Jake Taylor
Farnam Street Investments
Thoughtful Buffett-tradition investor and excellent podcaster; strong on capital allocation thinking but limited public track record and moderate concentration;...
Peter Lynch
Fidelity Magellan Fund
The greatest mutual fund manager ever, whose 29% annual returns over 13 years were achieved through hyper-diversified GARP investing — brilliant but antithetica...
Robert Goldfarb
Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb (Sequoia Fund)
Legendary Buffett-school value investor whose brilliant decades-long record was severely tarnished by the Valeant catastrophe; now retired with no current posit...
David Swensen
Yale Endowment (deceased 2021)
The greatest institutional investor in history who pioneered the endowment model -- his intellectual rigor and long-term orientation are inspiring, but his dive...
Harris Kupperman (Kuppy)
Praetorian Capital
Colorful contrarian macro-thematic investor with excellent transparency through his blog and strong recent returns on shipping/uranium/inflation themes, but tra...
Anthony Bolton
Fidelity International (retired)
Legendary UK contrarian value investor with a 28-year track record of ~19.5% annualized returns, now retired — philosophy is admirable but portfolio style is to...
Karthik Sarma
SRS Investment Management
Runs one of the most concentrated major hedge funds in the world (95% in top 10) with a platform/consumer focus -- extreme concentration aligns with our philoso...
Todd Combs
Berkshire Hathaway
Buffett lieutenant and GEICO CEO; mixed stock-picking record at Berkshire, more growth-willing than our philosophy, low transparency.
Julian Robertson
Tiger Management (retired)
Father of the hedge fund industry with admirable principles and integrity, but deceased since 2022 and his long/short, actively traded approach provides no acti...
John Griffin
Blue Ridge Capital (closed to outside investors)
Elite Tiger Cub with outstanding track record but fund is closed to outsiders, limiting current relevance and transparency.
Tweedy Browne
Tweedy, Browne Company LLC
Legendary 100-year-old Graham-tradition value firm with impeccable integrity and the 'What Has Worked in Investing' paper -- a valuable intellectual resource, b...
Dan Sundheim
D1 Capital Partners
Elite Tiger Cub with deep fundamental research and strong analytical rigor, but hedge fund structure (long-short, leverage) and low transparency limit direct al...
Stephen Schwarzman
Blackstone Inc.
Built the world's largest alternative asset manager with an exceptional real estate track record and massive AI/data center conviction, but his fee-extracting,...
Will Danoff
Fidelity Contrafund
Legendary long-tenured Contrafund manager with exceptional track record across 35 years, but broad diversification and GARP style limit alignment.
Cheah Cheng Hye
Value Partners Group
Self-made 'Warren Buffett of Asia' with a 30+ year value investing track record in Greater China, but recent decade of underperformance reflects China's structu...
Shuhei Abe
Sparx Group
Pioneer of independent value investing in Japan with 35+ years of experience, vindicated by Japan's recent governance revolution — a thoughtful Buffett-influenc...
Sam Zell
Equity Group Investments (deceased May 2023)
Legendary contrarian real estate investor whose 'Grave Dancer' approach to buying distressed assets is philosophically instructive, but he is deceased, operated...
Teng Ngiek Lian
Target Asset Management
Singapore-based concentrated value investor whose 10-20 stock portfolio and long-term philosophy closely mirror our approach, but extreme privacy makes it impos...
Jean-Jacques Durand
Compagnie du Bois Sauvage
Belgian permanent-capital holding company that operates like a mini-Berkshire with concentrated, patient, long-term positions — philosophically aligned but prac...
Kerr Neilson
Platinum Asset Management
Australian global contrarian value investor with a strong early track record but severe underperformance in the tech era, leading to the firm's effective demise...
Bruce Berkowitz
Fairholme Capital Management
Morningstar's Manager of the Decade (2000s) who then destroyed his track record with catastrophic concentrated bets in Sears and Fannie/Freddie — a cautionary t...
Scott Malpass
Notre Dame Endowment (retired 2020)
Legendary Notre Dame endowment CIO who grew $425M to $18B over 32 years with exceptional integrity, but his diversified institutional approach offers minimal di...
Orlando Bravo
Thoma Bravo
The most successful software PE investor alive with top-decile returns and sector expertise directly relevant to our AGI thesis, but private, leveraged, and clo...
Cliff Asness
AQR Capital Management
The most intellectually transparent quant investor alive — his research on value factors and behavioral biases is worth reading, but his diversified systematic...
Seth Alexander
MIT Investment Management Company (MITIMCo)
Swensen-trained MIT endowment leader with outstanding returns driven by VC-heavy allocation, but extremely private and his institutional approach offers limited...
Robert Chicken
Beutel Goodman & Company
Solid institutional Canadian value manager within a respected firm, but too diversified, team-based, and geographically narrow to offer actionable insights for...
Jeff Smith
Starboard Value
Best-in-class operational activist with exceptional research quality and the famous Darden Restaurants board takeover, but mid-cap fix-it focus and 1-3 year hor...
Chase Coleman
Tiger Global Management
Brilliant tech stock picker with extreme concentration but growth-momentum philosophy and poor downside protection (52% loss in 2022) make him a useful idea sou...
Dan Loeb
Third Point
Sharp multi-strategy hedge fund operator with increasing tech/AI focus and strong long-term returns, but high turnover and hedge fund complexity make him more u...
George Soros
Soros Fund Management
Perhaps the greatest macro trader in history with a brilliant intellectual framework, but his leveraged, short-term, macro-driven approach is fundamentally inco...
Leigh Goehring & Adam Rozencwajg
Goehring & Rozencwajg
Deeply knowledgeable natural resource contrarians with excellent research output, but exclusive commodity focus and 50-70 position diversification limit relevan...
Nelson Peltz
Trian Fund Management
Constructive operational activist with good transparency and integrity, but focus on old-economy fix-it situations with declining influence and no AGI awareness...
Chuck Royce
Royce Investment Partners (Royce Funds)
The godfather of small-cap value investing with a solid philosophical framework on downside protection and quality, but extreme diversification and modest recen...
Alex Sacerdote
Whale Rock Capital Management
Concentrated tech growth investor with strong returns but momentum-oriented philosophy diverges from our downside-first approach.
John Arnold
Centaurus Advisors / Arnold Ventures (retired from investing)
Brilliant natural gas trader who made billions through quantitative commodity trading, but retired in 2012 and his derivatives-focused approach has no applicabi...
Wong Kok Hoi
APS Asset Management
Experienced Singapore-based contrarian investor with 44 years of China expertise and investigative research approach, but long/short strategy and low transparen...
Paul Singer
Elliott Management
The most successful hedge fund in history with nearly 50 years of consistent returns, but the multi-strategy, low-transparency approach is fundamentally incompa...
John Overdeck & David Siegel
Two Sigma Investments
The most AI-native quant firm with genuine AGI awareness through its ML-first approach and AI venture investments — intellectually interesting for AGI thesis va...
Whitney Tilson
Kase Learning (formerly T2 Partners / Kase Capital)
Honest and transparent about his hedge fund failures but poor track record, no longer managing money, and now primarily a financial educator/newsletter writer w...
Larry Robbins
Glenview Capital Management
Skilled healthcare hedge fund manager whose event-driven, long/short, policy-trading approach diverges significantly from our patient value philosophy.
Lee Ainslie
Maverick Capital
Disciplined and principled long/short manager with 30+ year clean record, but diversified approach, modest returns, and lack of tech/AGI focus make him a poor f...
David Shaw
D.E. Shaw
A brilliant computer scientist who built a hybrid quant-fundamental powerhouse — intellectually admirable but operationally irrelevant to our approach, with ins...
Michael Burry
Scion Asset Management
Legendary for The Big Short but post-2008 career marked by high turnover, failed macro calls, AI skepticism, and near-zero transparency - antithetical to our pa...
Mark Mobius
Mobius Capital Partners (formerly Franklin Templeton Emerging Markets)
Pioneering emerging markets investor with colorful career but inconsistent recent track record and low alignment with our concentrated value approach.
Jim Simons
Renaissance Technologies
The greatest quantitative investor in history with an unreplicable computational edge — intellectually fascinating but completely irrelevant to our concentrated...
Paul Tudor Jones
Tudor Investment Corp
Legendary macro trader with outstanding capital preservation instincts and genuine philanthropic character, but his technical, macro, and derivatives-heavy appr...
Barry Sternlicht
Starwood Capital Group
Skilled opportunistic real estate investor who excels at cycle timing and capital stack flexibility, but his leveraged, private-deal, fee-extracting fund model...
Kim Lew
Columbia Investment Management Company
Principled Columbia endowment CEO with solid but not top-tier returns, whose diversified institutional approach and ESG focus offer limited applicability to our...
Kevin Tang
Tang Capital Management
MD/MBA biotech activist with genuine scientific edge in micro-cap pharma, but the speculative, small-cap, activist-driven approach is incompatible with our pass...
Ray Dalio
Bridgewater Associates
Brilliant macro thinker and systems builder, but his ultra-diversified, leveraged, all-weather approach is the antithesis of concentrated long-term value invest...
Jane Mendillo
Harvard Management Company (former CEO, 2008-2014)
Competent Harvard endowment CEO who managed through the 2008 crisis with integrity but produced middling returns, and whose diversified institutional approach o...
Henry Kravis & George Roberts
KKR
Legendary PE pioneer with strong institutional returns but antithetical to our philosophy — leveraged, diversified, fee-driven, and short-to-medium duration hol...
Ken Griffin
Citadel
A brilliant hedge fund operator with an exceptional track record built on institutional infrastructure, multi-strategy diversification, and market-making domina...
Mario Gabelli
GAMCO Investors
Legendary value investor with a sound PMV-with-catalyst framework, but extreme diversification, declining recent performance, and governance concerns make him a...
Mark Cuban
Various (investor lens)
Brilliant entrepreneur with strong AI awareness but a venture/diversified investor, not a concentrated value stock picker — wrong archetype for our approach.
Leon Black
Apollo Global Management
Brilliant distressed debt investor with an exceptional early track record, but the Epstein scandal, fee-extracting fund model, credit-focused strategy, and mini...
Samuel Isaly
OrbiMed Advisors
Pioneering healthcare-dedicated investment platform with $18B AUM but too diversified, event-driven, and institutional to align with our concentrated value appr...
Eddie Lampert
ESL Investments
Once-brilliant concentrated value investor whose ego and conflicts of interest destroyed $10B+ at Sears -- an essential cautionary tale about concentration risk...
David Bonderman
TPG Capital
Brilliant contrarian PE dealmaker with a colorful legacy, but the leveraged, diversified, fee-driven model is fundamentally misaligned with our approach — and h...
V-Nee Yeh
Value Partners Group (co-founder)
Value Partners co-founder who has largely stepped back from active investing to focus on philanthropy and governance — not a useful source of distinct investmen...
T. Boone Pickens
BP Capital Management (deceased 2019)
Legendary energy speculator and corporate raider whose leveraged, trading-oriented approach and volatile track record are antithetical to our long-term, downsid...
Marc Andreessen & Ben Horowitz
a16z (Andreessen Horowitz)
The most AGI-aware institutional investor with unmatched technology trend insight, but operates in a completely different paradigm (VC, power-law, diversified,...
Carl Icahn
Icahn Enterprises
Legendary activist raider whose best days are behind him — leverage-heavy, event-driven approach with recent integrity issues and no AI awareness makes him irre...
David Winters
Wintergreen Advisers
Mutual Series pedigree and principled governance activist (notably Coca-Cola), but Wintergreen Fund's sustained underperformance, high fees, and eventual closur...
Kyle Bass
Hayman Capital Management
Brilliant one-hit subprime trade followed by a decade of underperforming macro bets; derivative-heavy style is fundamentally incompatible with our approach.
Edouard Carmignac
Carmignac Gestion
Pioneering French macro-driven flexible allocator with a strong pre-2010 record that faded — approach is too diversified, active, and macro-driven to be relevan...
John Paulson
Paulson & Co
Made the greatest trade in history but gave it all back — a cautionary tale about one-hit wonders and the danger of straying from one's circle of competence.
Marc Lasry
Avenue Capital Group
Solid distressed credit investor but entirely debt-focused with low transparency and minimal relevance to our equity-oriented, AGI-themed approach.
Wilbur Ross
WL Ross & Co
Brilliant bankruptcy turnaround artist but serious integrity issues, retired, and no relevance to our long-term equity approach.
Cathie Wood
ARK Invest
Highly transparent disruptive innovation investor whose speculative, momentum-driven approach with no downside discipline is antithetical to our floor-price, ma...
Jim Rogers
Rogers Holdings
Legendary early career with Soros but 40+ years of questionable public calls since; commodity/macro focus with zero AGI awareness makes him irrelevant to our ap...
Sardar Biglari
Biglari Holdings
Self-styled Buffett imitator who copies the words but not the character -- massive self-enrichment through embedded hedge fund fees, poor returns, governance en...
Michael Saylor
MicroStrategy / Strategy
A single-asset, leveraged Bitcoin maximalist with a past accounting fraud settlement -- represents the antithesis of our value-oriented, downside-protection-fir...
Chamath Palihapitiya
Social Capital
Brilliant operator-turned-SPAC-promoter whose gap between stated principles and actual behavior, combined with billions in investor losses across SPACs, makes h...
Steve Cohen
Point72 Asset Management
Exceptional raw returns tainted by systematic insider trading at SAC; short-term, hyper-diversified trading operation is the exact opposite of our concentrated...
Howard Lutnick
Cantor Fitzgerald / BGC Group
Resilient operator who rebuilt Cantor Fitzgerald after 9/11, but primarily a financial services executive and deal-maker — not a portfolio investor — with Tethe...
Neil Woodford
Woodford Investment Management (collapsed)
Once-great UK income investor whose reputation was destroyed by catastrophic style drift, liquidity mismatches, and integrity failures at his own firm — a cauti...