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Name

Louis Bacon

Primary Residence

Oyster Bay, New York

Education

Bachelor of Arts/Science, Middlebury College | Master of Business Administration, Columbia Business School

Citizenship

United States

Affiliated Companies

Moore Capital Management, LP

Forbes Self Made Score

Source Of Wealth

hedge funds, Self Made

Net Worth

$1,500,000,000

Forbes Profile

https://www.forbes.com/profile/louis-bacon1

Forbes 2019 Billionaires List Rank:

1511

Forbes List Rank One: Title

#1511 Billionaires 2019

Forbes List Rank One: Link

https://www.forbes.com/billionaires/

Forbes List Rank Two: Title

#374 Forbes 400 2016

Forbes List Rank Two: Link

https://www.forbes.com/forbes-400/

Forbes List Rank Three: Link

https://www.forbes.com/hedge-fund-managers/

Summary

One of Wall Street's macro-trading legends, Louis Bacon cut his teeth as a commodities and currencies trader, earning big profits in the 1987 crash.He created hedge fund Moore Capital in 1989 using trading profits and a small inheritance.Bacon's Moore Capital hedge fund manages $13.4 billion in assets and is not knocking out the kind of impressive returns that it used to score.

Did you know?

Bacon's environmental preservation-focused Moore Charitable Trust was defrauded out of $25 million by jailed banker Andy Caspersen.

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Number of Children

Twitter

https://twitter.com/louisbaconblog

https://www.linkedin.com/in/louisbacon/

Wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Bacon