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 Icahn, DE 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
SS Tier- Nancy Pelosi, RBC insider trading kid
For what it’s worth, this is a good list. Would switch Bill Ackman and Ichan though after the Hindenburg report lol. Ackman’s Twitter account is too funny.
All of these people are infinitely wealthier than I am in an industry that only cares about money so they're all S-tier to me
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:
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
They're both pretty incompetent