Releasing tomorrow: a deep dive on GS risk arbitrage desk, Robert Rubin and his protégés

Hello!

Dropping tomorrow at 12:00 PM ET: a 7,500-word deep dive on the Goldman Sachs risk-arbitrage desk that Robert Rubin built — and how his protégés turned that tiny trading desk into one of the most powerful lineages in hedge-fund history, available for our premium subscribers:

Robert Rubin protégés

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What you will get:

Fund Primers by Region (# of funds)

• Connecticut (81)

• New Jersey (16)

• NY Long-only’s (76)

• NY HF - Tiger lineage (39)

• NY HF - Biotech / healthcare (26)

• NY HF - Activist (38)

• NY HF - Market-neutral SM (36)

• NY HF - Event-driven / Special Sit (39)

• NY HF - Value, Growth, Style-agnostic (119)

• Boston and U.S. Northeast (VT) (73)

• California (133)

• Chicago (41) | U.S. Midwest (MN, WI, MI, OH, IA, MO, NE, KS) (55)

• Florida (58) | U.S. Southeast (AL, AK, GA, KY, NC, SC, TN) (32)

• U.S. Mid-Atlantic (DE, MD, PA, VA) (59)

• Texas (58)

• U.S. West (CO, OR, UT, WA) and Puerto Rico (40)

Hedge Fund Deep Dives

• Abrams Capital

• Baron Capital

• Cantillon Capital Management

• Coatue Management

• Davidson Kempner Capital Management

• Eminence Capital

• Glenview Capital

• Goldman Sachs Risk Arbitrage lineage (Farallon, Perry, Eton Park, Och-Ziff/Sculptor, ESL, TPG-Axon, Taconic) - releasing tomorrow

• King Street Capital

• Lone Pine Capital

• Maverick Capital (FREE)

• ValueAct

• Soroban Capital

• Sands Capital Management

• Third Point

• Whale Rock

• Baupost Group (FREE)

Mutual Fund Deep Dives

• Artisan International Value

• Diamond Hill Capital Management

• Polen Focused Growth

Fund Primers by Sector Specialty

• U.S. Biotech / Healthcare (68)

• U.S. TMT / Consumer (82)

• U.S. Energy / Materials (29)

• U.S. Financials (20)

• More to come

Fund Primers by Investment Style

• U.S. Activists (70)

• U.S. Tiger Lineage (70)

• U.S. Market-neutral SM (76)

• U.S. Multi-managers

• U.S. Event-driven (76)

Fund Primers by Key Person Alma Mater

• Columbia (91)

• University of Chicago (35)

• Cornell (23)

• Dartmouth (29)

• Harvard (129)

• MIT (18)

• NYU (41)

• UPenn / Wharton (107)

• Princeton (35)

• Stanford (61)

• UVA (34)

• Williams College (14)

• Yale (46)

Industry Insight Series

• Multi-managers 101

• Short primer on how to analyze biotech stocks

• Learnings from analyzing 1,000+ U.S. funds

• 2024 Sohn Conference Summary

• How to Build Moats in a Hedge Fund Business?

• Why Do Hedge Funds Fail?

• What hedge funds don’t tell you

• Coatue’s Wisdom on TMT Investing

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Talk to you tomorrow,

Richard