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100 TOPPERFORMING

Fund, Manager(s) 1
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LARGE HEDGE FUNDS


Strategy Mortgage-backed arbitrage Mortgage-backed arbitrage Multistrategy Mortgage-backed arbitrage Macro Asset backed Multistrategy Macro Multistrategy Long/short Asset backed Long/short Long/short Event driven Mortgage-backed arbitrage Long/short Long biased Distressed Structured credit Multistrategy Distressed Managed futures Multistrategy Distressed Distressed Fixed income Distressed Asset backed
ASSETS, IN BILLIONS YTD TOTAL RETURN 2011 RETURN

Management Firm, Location Metacapital Management, U.S. Pine River Capital Management, U.S. CQS, U.K. Pine River Capital Management, U.S. Odey Asset Management, U.K. Marathon Asset Management, U.S. Appaloosa Management, U.S. BTG Pactual Global Asset Management, U.S. Third Point, U.S. Omega Advisors, U.S. Seer Capital Management, U.S. Tiger Global Management, U.S. Eminence Capital, U.S. Jana Partners, U.S. Structured Portfolio Management, U.S. Citadel Advisors, U.S. Viking Global Investors, U.S. Cerberus Capital Management, U.S. LibreMax Capital, U.S. Pine River Capital Management, U.S. Litespeed Management, U.S. Man Investments, U.K. Citadel Advisors, U.S. Canyon Capital Advisors, U.S. Contrarian Capital Management, U.S. DoubleLine Capital, U.S. Redwood Capital Management, U.S. One William Street Capital Management, U.S.

Metacapital Mortgage Opportunities Deepak Narula Pine River Fixed Income Steve Kuhn CQS Directional Opportunities Michael Hintze Pine River Liquid Mortgage Steve Kuhn, Jiayi Chen Odey European Crispin Odey Marathon Securitized Credit Bruce Richards, Louis Hanover Palomino David Tepper BTG Pactual GEMM Team managed Third Point Ultra Daniel Loeb Seer Capital Partners Philip Weingord

$1.5 3.6 1.5 1.1 1.8 1.2 4.9 3.6 1.3 1.4 1.2 6.0 3.0 3.8 1.9 1.0 1.7 1.7 2.3 1.6 1.7 1.9 7.0 1.9 2.1 2.3 2.6 2.2

37.8% 32.9 28.9 28.0 24.1 24.0 24.0 23.1 22.1 21.7 21.6 21.0 20.9 20.4 20.3 20.0 19.4 19.0 18.5 18.5 18.1 18.0 18.0 17.7 17.6 17.4 17.4 17.1

23.6% 4.8 10.4 7.2 20.3 4.2 3.5 3.4 2.3 1.4 2.1 45.0 1.6 2.1 19.6 38.0 0.1 NA 1 2.0 5.7 4.4 10.5 20.0 4.5 1.3 20.7 2.0 4.3

8 9

10 Omega Overseas Partners A Leon Cooperman 11

12 Tiger Global Feroz Dewan, Chase Coleman 13 Eminence Ricky Sandler 14 Jana Master Barry Rosenstein, David DiDomenico 15 Structured Servicing Holdings William Mok 16 Citadel Tactical Trading Team managed 17

Viking Long Andreas Halvorsen

18 Cerberus RMBS Opportunities Steve Feinberg 19 LibreMax Partners Greg Lippmann

Pine River Aaron Yeary


21 Litespeed Master Jamie Zimmerman 22 AHL Evolution Timothy Wong

Citadel Kensington/Wellington Team managed


24 Canyon Balanced Joshua Friedman, Mitchell Julis 25 Contrarian Capital One Jon Bauer, Janice Stanton 26 DoubleLine Opportunistic Income Jeffrey Gundlach, Philip Barach

Redwood Offshore Jonathan Kolatch


28 One William Street Capital Partners David Sherr
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Fund was launched in 2011. 2Return is for the nine months ended on Sept. 30. Returns are for the 10 months ended on Oct. 31. Includes funds with more than $1 billion in assets. Sources: Bloomberg, hedge-fund databases, hedge-fund firms, investors

100 TOP-PERFORMING LARGE HEDGE FUNDS


Fund, Manager(s)
29 Cevian Capital II Lars Forberg, Christer Gardell

Management Firm, Location Cevian Capital, Sweden D.E. Shaw & Co., U.S. Autonomy Capital, U.S. Maverick Capital Management, U.S. Structured Portfolio Management, U.S. Canyon Capital Advisors, U.S. MKP Capital Management, U.S. GoldenTree Asset Management, U.S. Fortress Investment Group, U.S. Silver Point Capital, U.S. York Capital Management Prosperity Capital Management, Russia CQS, U.K. Third Point, U.S. Bridgewater Associates, U.S. Citadel Advisors, U.S. Marathon Asset Management, U.S. OxFORD Asset Management, U.K. Spinnaker Capital, U.K. Halcyon Asset-Backed Advisors, U.S. D.E. Shaw & Co., U.S. Perry Capital, U.S. BlueMountain Capital Management, U.S. Ares Management, U.S. Cerberus Capital Management, U.S. Credit Suisse Hedging-Griffo, Brazil Vertex One Asset Management, Canada Blue Harbour Group, U.S. Viking Global Investors, U.S. DW Investment Management, U.S. Fortress Investment Group, U.S. BlackRock Alternative Investors, U.S. Beach Point Capital Management, U.S. QVT Financial, U.S. Pelham Capital Management, U.K. Zenit Asset Management, Sweden

Strategy Activist Macro Macro Long/short Mortgage-backed arbitrage Multistrategy Credit Credit Credit Distressed Distressed Emerging-markets equity Asset backed Multistrategy Macro Long/short Multistrategy Quantitative Emerging-markets debt Asset backed Macro Multistrategy Credit Fixed income Distressed Macro Distressed Activist Long/short Credit Macro Fixed income Distressed Multistrategy Long/short Long/short

ASSETS, IN BILLIONS

YTD TOTAL RETURN

2011 RETURN

$6.9 1.7 2.9 10.0 1.7 8.0 2.0 1.5 4.9 6.8 4.2 1.3 2.3 4.9 6.6 2.0 1.0 3.8 1.4 2.5 9.5 4.8 5.1 2.4 7.6 1.4 1.0 1.1 16.3 3.0 1.5 3.5 1.4 2.4 2.0 1.5

16.8% 16.8 16.0 16.0 15.7 15.6 15.4 15.3 15.1 15.0 15.0 14.9 14.3 14.1 14.0 14.0 14.0 13.7 13.7 13.4 13.4 13.4 13.3 13.2 13.2 13.1 13.0 12.9 12.7 12.6 12.5 12.3 12.1 12.1 11.9 11.8

9.9% 9.2 13.6 15.8 23.7 4.7 5.1 0.7 10.9 6.1 1.4 18.0 0.7 0.1 19.5 21.0 4.8 23.5 9.3 4.1 18.0 7.1 3.6 8.0 1.3 5.7 20.0 3.3 7.6 1.2 9.5 20.2 1.0 5.5 10.4 4.0

Heliant David E. Shaw


31 Autonomy Global Macro Robert Gibbins

Maverick Lee Ainslie


33 SPM Core William Mok 34 Canyon Value Realization Joshua Friedman, Mitchell Julis 35 MKP Credit Patrick McMahon, Anthony Lembke 36 GoldenTree Credit Opportunities Steven Tananbaum 37 Drawbridge Special Opportunities Peter Briger Jr., Constantine Dakolias 38 Silver Point Capital Edward Mule

York Credit Opportunities William Vrattos, James Dinan, Daniel Schwartz


40 Russian Prosperity Ivan Mazalov, Alexander Branis 41 CQS ABS Simon Finch (formerly Alistair Lumsden) 42 Third Point Offshore Daniel Loeb 43 All Weather 12% Ray Dalio

Citadel Global Equities Team managed Marathon Special Opportunity Bruce Richards, Louis Hanover
46 OxAM Quant Fund Andre Stern, Steve Mobbs, Steven Kurlander

Spinnaker Global Emerging Markets Bradley Wickens


48 Halcyon Asset-Backed Value Joseph Wolnick, Joseph Godley, James Coppola

Oculus David E. Shaw Perry Partners Richard Perry


51 BlueMountain Credit Alternatives Andrew Feldstein 52 Ares Enhanced Credit Opportunities Seth Brufsky, Americo Cascella

Cerberus Institutional Partners Series IV Steve Feinberg


54 Green HG Luis Stuhlberger 55 Vertex John Thiessen, Tim Logie 56 Blue Harbour Strategic Value Partners Clifton Robbins 57 Viking Global Equities Andreas Halvorsen 58 Brevan Howard Credit Catalysts David Warren 59 Fortress Macro Adam Levinson, Michael Novogratz 60 BlackRock Fixed Income Global Alpha Tim Webb 61 Beach Point Total Return Carl Goldsmith, Scott Klein

QVT Overseas-B Daniel Gold


63 Pelham Long/Short Ross Turner, Hadyn Cunningham 64 Brummer & Partners Zenit Per Josefsson, Svante Elfving
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Fund was launched in 2011. 2Return is for the nine months ended on Sept. 30. Returns are for the 10 months ended on Oct. 31. Includes funds with more than $1 billion in assets. Sources: Bloomberg, hedge-fund databases, hedge-fund firms, investors

100 TOP-PERFORMING LARGE HEDGE FUNDS


Fund, Manager(s)
65 Egerton European Dollar John Armitage

Management Firm, Location Egerton Capital, U.K. Greenlight Capital, U.S. Rimrock Capital Management, U.S. Angelo Gordon & Co., U.S. GSO Capital Partners, U.S. Pimco, U.S. Providence Investment Management, U.S. New Mountain Capital, U.S. York Capital Management, U.S. Elliott Management, U.S. Hudson Bay Capital Management, U.S. GoldenTree Asset Management, U.S. Hayman Capital Management, U.S. King Street Capital, U.S. Paulson Partners, U.S. Loomis Sayles & Co., U.S. Columbus Hill Capital Management, U.S. Strategic Value Partners, U.S. Discovery Capital Management, U.S. Halcyon Asset Management, U.S. Lansdowne Partners, U.K. Avenue Capital Group, U.S. Highside Capital Management, U.S. SAC Capital Advisors, U.S. Senator Investment Group, U.S. Visium Asset Management, U.S. Aristeia Capital, U.S. Spinnaker Capital, U.K. Och-Ziff Capital Management Group, U.S. Carlson Capital, U.S. Monarch Alternative Capital, U.S. Elliott Management, U.S. Passport Capital, U.S. Kingdon Capital Management, U.S. Two Sigma Investments, U.S. York Capital Management, U.S.

Strategy Long/short Long/short Fixed-income arbitrage Multistrategy Distressed Long/short Mortgage-backed arbitrage Long/short Multistrategy Multistrategy Multistrategy Credit Event driven Event driven Merger arbitrage Credit Multistrategy Distressed Macro Multistrategy Long/short Distressed Long/short Long/short Multistrategy Long/short Credit Emerging-markets debt Multistrategy Multistrategy Distressed Multistrategy Long/short Long/short Managed futures Multistrategy

ASSETS, IN BILLIONS

YTD TOTAL RETURN

2011 RETURN

$1.5 7.8 1.2 3.1 1.8 2.7 1.8 1.6 1.5 7.5 1.5 2.9 1.0 10.4 2.0 1.1 1.2 1.4 6.3 1.5 6.9 2.0 1.0 9.0 3.7 2.6 1.5 1.4 21.4 4.4 1.3 13.4 1.3 1.2 2.6 5.1

11.4% 11.4 11.2 11.0 11.0 11.0 11.0 10.8 10.7 10.6 10.6 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.5 10.4 10.3 10.3 10.2 10.1 10.1 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 10.0 9.8 9.6 9.5 9.4 9.4 9.3 9.3 9.1 9.0 9.0
2

5.0% 2.9 7.5 0.8 8.0 1.8 25.1 12.0 7.2 4.0 4.3 0.3 1.8 1.6 21.6 0.8 4.5 11.3 3.6 5.9 20.4 12.9 1.3 8.0 0.7 2.1 2.4 11.8 0.6 0.8 0.5 3.8 18.7 18.0 3.7 7.1

Greenlight Capital David Einhorn


67 Rimrock High Income Plus Dave Edington 68 AG Super Michael Gordon, David Kamin

GSO Special Situations Overseas Louis Salvatore, Michael Whitman Pimco Absolute Return IV Bill Gross Providence MBS Russell Jeffrey
72 New Mountain Vantage Daniel Riley, David Frost 73 York Total Return Jeffrey Weber, Marc Helwani 74

Elliott Associates Paul Singer Hudson Bay Sander Gerber

76 GoldenTree Master Steven Tananbaum

Hayman Capital Master Kyle Bass King Street Francis Biondi, Brian Higgins Paulson Enhanced John Paulson
80 Loomis Sayles Credit Long/Short Team managed 81 Columbus Hill Kevin Eng

Strategic Value Restructuring Victor Khosla


83 Discovery Global Opportunity Robert Citrone 84 Halcyon Partners Offshore John Bader, Kevah Konner

Lansdowne Developed Markets Peter Davies, Stuart Roden


86 Avenue International Shawn Foley, Rob Symington

Highside Capital Partners Lee Hobson SAC Capital International Steve Cohen Senator Global Opportunity Alex Klabin, Douglas Silverman Visium Balanced Jacob Gottlieb
91 Aristeia Partners Anthony Frascella, William Techar 92 Spinnaker Global Opportunity Jorge Benjamin Rosas, Marcos Lederman 93 OZ Master Daniel Och 94 Double Black Diamond Clint Carlson

Monarch Debt Recovery M. Weinstock, A. Herenstein, C. Santana


96 Elliott International Paul Singer

Passport Global Strategy John Burbank II


98 M. Kingdon Offshore Team managed 99 Two Sigma Compass Enhanced U.S. Team managed

York Capital Management James Dinan, Daniel Schwartz


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Fund was launched in 2011. 2Return is for the nine months ended on Sept. 30. Returns are for the 10 months ended on Oct. 31. Includes funds with more than $1 billion in assets. Sources: Bloomberg, hedge-fund databases, hedge-fund firms, investors

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