In this article, you will learn about the 40 major public equity investment firms in the Chicago area: 16 hedge funds, 24 long-onlys.
Updated as of 3/14/2026
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Launches, Shutdowns, and Pivots In this issue, we discuss the reversal of a major hedge fund industry trend, news around a few Tiger Grand-cub hedge funds and a few high-profile billion AUM+ hedge fund launches, and more. If you missed the last two editions: 2025 Q4 | 2025 Q3 This article
All 1,000+ hedge funds and long-onlys in one place, sortable and searchable Updated as of 3/17/2026 The search works for your keyword in all fields: from name of the fund, all the way to the text inside the details column. Example use cases: * If you want to
Note: * All figures are averages using pivot table * There weren’t enough international data points to even have analysis, so I excluded them * excluded a few outliers (because might be prank submissions) and macro (because it can skew the fundamental research info) * Firms considered “BB” in my grouping (I have
Updated: 3/14/2026 Subject to change because I cannot make up my damn mind. Hedge funds AUM: because hedge funds only report regulatory AUM, which includes leverage, it's not disclosed in our fund database. Style I classify funds into value, growth, event-driven, activist, healthcare (mainly biotech/biopharma)