Bruce Kovner: The world’s greatest investors

Bruce Kovner achieved success by using a mixture of fundamental and technical investment analysis.

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Bruce Kovner produced consistent returns of around 80% a year
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Kovner was born in New York in 1945. He did his first degree at Harvard, followed by postgraduate study at the university's school of government, but did not finish his PhD, instead working as a writer and commodity trader. Kovner made his first trade at 31, using cash from a credit card, turning $3,000 into $22,000. That year he joined pioneering hedge fund Commodities Corporation as an assistant. Later he set up Caxton Associates, which he ran until 2008.

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Dr Matthew Partridge
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Matthew graduated from the University of Durham in 2004; he then gained an MSc, followed by a PhD at the London School of Economics.

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