Top 100 Traders Of 2007

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No 1 Trader in the World

John Paulson
City: New York
Firm: Paulson & Co.
Age: 52
Estimated Income: $3 billion+

It’s hard to believe that a sitting Treasury Secretary could come to be known as “the other Paulson” in Wall Street circles, but that’s just how large a shadow John Paulson casts these days, with all due respect to the former CEO of Goldman Sachs. In the wake of Paulson’s pulverizing subprime mortgage-backeds short — which, at this point, is thought to have forced God Himself to sell off liquid assets — Paulson suddenly finds himself elevated to a place that transcends a mere cabinet post.

A Queens native, NYU valedictorian, Harvard MBA and former Bear Stearns investment banker who launched his merger-arbitrage hedge fund in 1994 with a few million dollars, Paulson toiled mostly under the radar for many years. We caught wind of him last year as he secured a spot on the Trader Monthly 100 with an estimated 2006 income of $100–$150 million — or, compared to his 2007 haul, cab fare.

Should he ever expect to rid himself of all that dough, Paulson will require several lifetimes. Indeed, the stash he raked in last year will surely be talked about for generations. Betting that the shakiest section of the mortgage market would buckle and then disintegrate, Paulson set out midway through 2006 to take advantage of his hypothesis, setting up limited partnerships on- and offshore, garnering highnet- worth investors, scouring available MBS information, crunching the numbers and ultimately pouncing, shorting the riskiest CDO tranches and wallpapering his offices with credit default swaps. One of Paulson’s funds, Credit Opportunities II, started the year with $130 million and finished it with $3.2 billion.

As the chief steward of credit strategies, Paulson’s partner in subprime shorting, Paolo Pellegrini, was in line to get a significant taste of the history-making score. Early reports indicated that Paulson, whose firm’s assets are now in the neighborhood of $29 billion, profited between $3 billion and $4 billion in 2007. A spokesman for Paulson refused to confirm the figure for us. Paulson himself similarly declined to comment. We’ve since heard that his total take-home was closer to $3 billion, though the smoke is, of course, still clearing. The result, regardless, is still a payday that eclipses anything we’ve ever come across.

 

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No 2

Phil Falcone
City: New York
Firm: Harbinger Capital Partners
Age: 45
Estimated Income: $1.5–$2 billion

Falc one first landed on our radar screen during the run-up to the inaugural Trader Monthly 100. He landed a spot (at $30 million) on that first list, which was based on 2003 performance and was published in late 2004(and contained an overblown estimate for the income of an unrelated American Stock Exchange options trader named Larry Falcone).

Our estimate on “the other Falcone,” however, was spot-on. Phil Falcone, an unassuming former Harvard hockey player, Kidder Peabody junk-bond trader and Barclays Capital executive, returned for the second iteration of the Trader Monthly 100 (based on 2004 performance), logging a respectable $40–$50 million. Falcone made the next two lists as well, last year climbing multiple rungs to the $100–$150 million range.

Not surprisingly, he’s back again this year — and golly, has our boy grown up! In a similar fashion to John Paulson (if far less heralded), Falcone pummeled the subprime mortgage market in 2007. His Harbinger Capital Partners Offshore Fund was up 114 percent, in large part because of a spectacular play involving Australian iron-ore producer Fortescue Metals; that fund is now $15 billion. A second fund (a special-situations strategy now totaling $4 billion) also mined Fortescue; that fund returned 167 percent last year.

Harbinger charges a 1.5 percent management fee and takes 20 percent of the spoils, and Falcone does not have a huge staff. Harbinger’s assets totaled about $20 billion as of February. That’s where vertigo kicks in for us. Good thing Falcone has a reputation as being famously grounded. “Phil is the most down-to-earth guy you’ll ever meet,” says a friend. “He doesn’t care about money. I mean, he cares, but not like some guys.”

Whether he cares or not, Falcone owns one of most expensive homes in New York City. Apparently, he and his wife intend to transform their just-purchased $59 million Upper East Side townhouse (once owned by Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione) from lavish-chic to family friendly.

But as warm and cozy as he wants his dwelling to be, don’t think for a second that this market maven is a softie; Falcone is known to exhaustively pore over the details of an industry or company, find its weaknesses and move in for the kill. Arthur Sulzberger, take note: He recently decided to lock horns with the New York Times Company. Well, how’s this for a banner headline:

 

[matlan]

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[hishammarmin]

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[darkkiller]

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[matlan]

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Entah le... mungkin diorang boleh Call Market kut.... suruh uptrend jadi uptrend.... suruh downtrend jadi downtrend...

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[darkkiller]

Entah le... mungkin diorang boleh Call Market kut.... suruh uptrend jadi uptrend.... suruh downtrend jadi downtrend...

trader kecik cam kita ni masih berpinar2 lagi tgk indi.... ~X( ~X(

tullah,ada gak aku baca buku2 trader tapi takdelah tersenarai kelompok dapat sejumlah yg diorang dapat ni.Tapi kebanyakkan ramai yg dah tua-tua..pengalaman tu penting

 

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