Posts Tagged ‘US’
Percent of income spent by Americans on fuel
This New York Times graphic gives an unique perspective on the percentage of income spent by Americans on fuel across various counties.
Titled The Varying Impact of Gas Prices it says that the counties where motorists spend the highest percentage of their income on gasoline tend to be in poor, rural areas.
Top 10 U.S Hedge Funds (old data from BusinessWeek)
I came across this BusinessWeek roundup of the top 10 U.S. Hedge Funds. It’s a slide show that was posted last year, so there will be significant change in the numbers (and the officials listed?) now. But I still felt it worthy enough to spend time converting some of the info on those slides into this table.
| Fund | Location | Assets under mgmt | Star | Change in assets under mgmt |
| JPMorgan Asset Management | New York | $34 billion | Paul Terence Bateman, CEO | +74.3% |
| Goldman Sachs Asset Management | New York | $32.5 billion | Allen Reed, CEO | +48% |
| Bridgewater Associates | Westport, Conn. | $30 billion | Raymond Thomas Dalio, president and chief investment officer | +47% |
| D. E. Shaw Group | New York | $26 billion | David Elliot Shaw, CEO | +40% |
| Farallon Capital Management | San Francisco | $26 billion | Thomas Steyer, senior managing member | +59% |
| Renaissance Technologies | East Setauket, N.Y. | $24 billion | James Harris Simons, CEO | +176% |
| Och-Ziff Capital Management | New York | $21 billion | JDaniel Saul Och, president | +40% |
| Cerberus Capital Management | New York | $19 billion | Stephen Feinberg, CEO | +70% |
| Barclays Global Investors | San Francisco | $19 billion | Blake Grossman, CEO | +29% |
| ESL Investments | Greenwich, Conn. | $18 billion | Edward Lampert, CEO | +20% |
Would like to remind again… data is old…most probably from first quarter of 2007.
