Investor Prestige Rankings

S-Tier: Warren Buffett, Jim Simons, Ben Graham, George Soros

A-Tier: Seth Klarman, Howard Marks, Julian Robertson, Steve Mandel, Cliff Asness, David Swensen, Joel Greenblatt, Bill Gross, Mario Gabelli,  Walter Schloss, Charlie Munger, Paul Tudor Jones, Michael Steinhardt, Stanley Druckenmiller, Ray Dalio, Peter Lynch, Ken Griffin, Steve Cohen, Carl IcahnDE Shaw, Bill Nygren, Sam Zell

B-Tier: Chase Coleman, Phillipe Lafont, Antti Ilmanen, Glenn Greenberg, Bill Ackman, Steve Schwarzman, Jesse Livermore, Michael Burry, Dan Loeb, Alfred W Jones, Mitch Julius, David Abrams, Phil Fisher

C-Tier: Gabe Plotkin, Wes Gray, Tobias Carlisle, DeepFuckingValue, John Paulson

D-Tier: Fred Liu, David Einhorn

F-Tier: Cathie Wood, Bill Hwang, Robert Merton and Myron Scholes (as part of LTCM)

Please make your own if anyone feels like it, for fun comparisons

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I'm only talking about L/S. 95% of the guys on ur list are just marketing geniuses / asset gatherers / right place right time / rich parents type

The best IRR HOF / alpha generators are ppl you've never heard of. The list SHOULD look like:

  • A group of like 15-20 MM PMs running $3-5bn and consistently putting up 5-7%+ gross (yes they exist) in US / London or some random country (and 0 net). These guys have made billions of lifetime pnl and have personally made hundreds of $m over their career and are the sharpest people you'll meet. These are incredibly incredibly good seats if you can get. Woodruff type but there are others you don’t know about (by design lol)
  • A few tiger cub / big multi strat L/S sr analysts / PMs (pref if you’ve been in seat for a while and and made $ on a thru the cycle basis)
  • Guys running >4bn SMs that consistently make 15-20% and have been in biz for over 10 years (the ones you’ve never heard of)

The greatest SM funds are the ones you've never heard of in like Malibu or Atlanta or Monaco. The amount of PMs quietly minting hundreds of $m / even billions is shocking. Work for the above guys, not d1 or tiger

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