For those young traders aspiring to make it in private-equity, there is a lot of hope and opportunity still left out there. The following list are some of the youngest hedge fund managers in the world. What's interesting is how many of these fund managers have a trading background. I think it's great to see things like this and it should serve as inspiration to all you young 20 something's. I'm sure some of these young men who are 28 now had no idea where they would be 5 years ago. Who says trading is dead? Source: http://seekingalpha.com/instablog/1...2104322-americas-youngest-hedge-fund-managers The mind-numbingly complex world of Wall Street has always been a top destination for some of the best of the brightest - despite the perception of financial executives projected by the media and other interest groups. Yes, Wall Street is crawling with know-it-all ivy-league alumni analyzing and cranking the numbers with dreams of becoming the next Gordon Gekko, but that doesn't paint the whole picture. This list of America's youngest hedge-fund and venture capital executives is made up of men and women under 30 whom are already making their mark as some of America's youngest fund-managers as well as some of America's quickest-rising social-entrepreneurs. Each one has attained tremendous responsibility (and the success that comes along with that) at a young age and has a compelling story to tell. Uri Aboutboul Uri Aboutboul, 27 Managing Partner, Acclaim Capital Partners LP While attending Columbia University & NYU served as a consultant on multi-national information-security & IT consulting projects. Got involved in HFT and has published industry-leading journal entries on the topic of proprietary trading. Started Acclaim Capital Partners - a equities and options trading hedge-fund in 2013. Jonathan Berger Jonathan Berger, 29 Portfolio Manager, Alyeska Investment Group Played basketball at Princeton, where he studied economics. Now runs an equity derivatives portfolio at a $4 billion Chicago hedge-fund. Grew up in Philadelphia and learned to trade at Citadel. Joshua Bertman Joshua Bertman, 29 Partner, Brevan Howard U.S. Investment Management Former Credit Suisse star mortgage trader poached in 2012 by Europe's second biggest hedge-fund to grow the firm's efforts in what has recently been one of the hedge-fund industry's most profitable areas. Ray Bradford Ray Bradford, 27 Investment Partner, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers Led team that helped Amazon web services grow its cloud infrastructure business. This Stanford MBA is now playing a leading role in his venture capital firm's push into big data services, including investments like UpThere. Kevin Carter Kevin Carter, 26 Partner, SV Angel Angel investor for innovative venture capital firm. Led investments in WillCall and Oyster. Recently working particularly close with Pineterest and Airbnb. Jiayi Chen Jiayi Chen, 29 Partner, Pine River Capital Management Co-portfolio manager of the $1 billion Pine River Liquid Mortgage Fund, one of the Steve Kuhn hedge-funds posting some of the industry's best returns. First spotted by Kuhn in a class Kuhn was teaching in Beijing, Jiayi has an MS in statistics from Columbia and used to work at Goldman Sachs. Thomas Digan Thomas Digan, 28 Head Trader, Sorin Capital Management Notre Dame grad from Boston, developed expertise in trading commercial mortgage-backed securities at New York structured credit hedge-fund that has been crushing it recently. Jennifer Fan Jennifer Fan, 29 Founder, Arbalet Capital The chief investment officer of a $650 million hedge-fund specializing in energy and agricultural commodities that she launched in 2012. At 19 graduated from NYU and later traded at Morgan Stanley and as a partner at a hedge-fund that shut down. Jonathan Fayman Jonathan Fayman, 29 Portfolio Manager, BlueBay Asset Management Co-runs a $1.3 billion macro hedge-fund, trading interest rates and currencies, often with an emerging markets focus. Based in London, born and raised in South Africa. Ryan Fusaro Ryan Fusaro, 27 Analyst, LionEye Capital Management The Fordham grad's Jack in the Box investment thesis scored him first place in Value Investing Congress' annual top idea contest, where he presented alongside some notable names including Bill Ackman and David Einhorn. Joshua Kushner Joshua Kushnero, 27 Founder, Thrive Capital Runs a $200 million New York private equity firm that raised money from Princeton University and Peter Thiel. Hit an early home run with Instagram investment he made just before it was sold to Facebook. John Locke John Locke, 28 Vice President, Accel Partners Venture capital investor focussing recently on payments business. Helped lead growth-stage investments in companies like Braintree, Rovio and LightSpeed. Princeton politics major from Cleveland. Mathé Mosny Mathé Mosny, 29 Senior Analyst, Hutchin Hill Capital Born in Manhattan, but partly grew up in Austria. Co-runs an event-driven trading book, one of the largest portfolios at Neil Chriss' hedge-fund. Graduated from Princeton with a degree in operations research and financial engineering. Matthew Peltz Matthew Peltz, 29 Partner, Trian Fund Management Started working at Goldman Sachs one day after his Yale graduation. Later joined his father's $4 billion investment firm, Trian. Played a key role in Trian building a big position in Family Dollar in June 2010. Since then, shares of the retailer are up more than 70%. Stefan Renold Stefan Renold, 27 Co-Founder, LMR Partners Former UBS trader recently moved to Hong Kong from London as his LMR hedge-fund keeps expanding. As co-chief investment officer at LMR, which manages nearly $1 billion, Renold focusses on its equity market neutral strategy. Martin Shkreli Martin Shkreli, 29 Founder, MSMB Capital As an activist hedge-fund manager specializing in healthcare stocks, torpedoed the proposed merger of Amag Pharmaceuticals and Allos Therapeutics by launching his own hostile bid. Antagonized Pfizer to remove former CEO William Steere from its board. His latest: founding a biotech focused on rare diseases. Savneet Singh Savneet Singh, 29 Co-Founder, Gold Bullion International Cornell grad got the gold bug in 2009 and launched GBI where individuals and institutions (Merrill Lynch is a client) can buy, sell, exchange and store physical gold. Advisory board members include General Wesley Clark and Sallie Krawcheck. Anil Stocker Anil Stocker, 28 Co-Founder, MarketInvoice Cambridge grad left investment banking gig to launch an alternative lender to small businesses, auctioning invoices to investors. Broke even after first year with monthly auction volumes of $6.5 million. Manuel Stotz Manuel Stotz, 28 Portfolio Manager, THS Partners Value and growth investor who worked at Goldman Sachs' internal hedge-fund, now at London's THS Partners where he runs a $1.5 billion portfolio, mostly investing in global equities. Schuster Tanger Schuster Tanger, 27 Co-founder, Red Alder Used to work for Dan Loeb and Goldman Sachs; now chief investment officer of $65 million New York hedge-fund he started with backing from his family, which made its money in outlet shopping malls, and other investors. Sheel Tyle Sheel Tyle, 21 Associate, New Enterprise Associates Jumped this year from Bessemer Ventures to NEA, where he is sourcing deals like Referly. Graduated from Stanford at 19 with double majors in human biology and public policy; co-founded non-profit focused on rural eye care in the developing world. Doron Yoets Doron Yoets, 28 Co-founded Acclaim Capital Partners with a focus on algorithmic trading strategies through algorithmic analysis of various indexes on the major U.S. exchanges in real-time.