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Does anyone have an idea of how Paul himself has done since then? Not the firm, but his own personal trading. Also, I heard that Jim Pallota left Tudor some time back, too hard to make money in stocks now?
I have no idea about PTJ's own personal trading. I got the feeling that both Paul and Louis Bacon farmed a lot of their assets out to sub-managers. As for their own personal trading, I have no clue.
But Pallota was managing $7 billion of the $18 billion in assets at Tudor,(in Boston) just before he split to go on his own a year ago. Pallota was manager of the Raptor Global Fund at Tudor and had been there for about 15 years, but had suffered a 33% decline since May 2007, the longest losing streak ever for Pallota.
Even though Pallota went off to start his own fund, Paul
initially left a large portion of Tudor's equity portfolio with Pallota. Paul had $5 Billion with Pallota as recently as August of last year. When Pallota spun-off to start up his own fund, he started out with $1.5 billion, but incurred losses of about 20% last year and dealt with a lot of client withdrawals.
As a result, Pallota shut down "Raptor" just last month. At the time of closing, he had only $800 million in it. Pallota told the press at the time that he was looking to start a new fund after taking a few months off to create a new strategy. Sounds like someone may have been down pretty badly on the year and was nowhere near their "high-water" mark; but pure speculation on my part.
If you really want a "rags to riches" story in the hedge-fund business, look no further than Paul's buddy and former Shearon broker, Louis
Moore Bacon.