David Harding
Chairman & Head of Research, Winton Capital Management
REAL TIME NET WORTH — as of 5/8/17
$1.55 B
David Harding founded his hedge fund firm, Winton Capital Management, in 1997 with less than $2 million. The company, whose moniker is taken from Harding’s middle name, now manages $30 billion and employs over 450 people. His main hedge funds lost money in 2016. A physicist by education who believes in sophisticated quantitative models to pick stocks, Harding previously co-founded Adam, Harding and Leuck (AHL), a managed futures firm that he and his partners sold to The Man Group in 1994. His David and Claudia Harding Foundation is known for donating to academic research and scientific causes.
Source:forbes