Thought this might be of interest to some here, from Institutional Investor: "Fourteen men whose power and influence have helped to create a $2 trillion industry" http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1960740 Bruce Kovner: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1960742 James Simons: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1960761 Julian Robertson: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1961692 George Soros: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1961702 Michael Steinhardt: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1961703 Kenneth Griffin: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1962258 Seth Klarman: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1962261 David Swensen: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1962262 Steven Cohen: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1962427 Leon Levy: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1962428 Jack Nash: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1962432 Louis Bacon: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1964187 Alfred Winslow Jones: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1964188 Paul Tudor Jones: http://www.iimagazine.com/Article.aspx?ArticleID=1964189
Found this collection of interviews in an old ET thread. Not bad! Half a dozen of these guys I would regard as all time greats:- Kovner, Tudor Jones, Soros, Cohen, Simons, Steinhardt,... To be an 'all time great' in my eyes means a sustained period (10-20 years or more) of exceptional returns in all kinds of market environment, not just riding the latest tech boom or commodity bubble. But what makes the articles interesting is that they were written in 2008. We can reflect on what they said at the time and look back at who was right, who saw the train wreck coming, and who made or lost money after 2008... And who else deserves a mention as an all time great? Buffett of course. Livermore, perhaps but a style that blows up four times in a career is more of the "Greg Norman" school of trading, not a multiple major winner (to use a golfing analogy) Paulson, Henry, Rotter... I think these guys can perhaps be added.. Did any of the guys in the list blow up? Any of these guys contribute to ET?