2022 was a profitable year for top performing hedge funds, even tho market was down about 20% top 10 US hedge funds managed to make 40 billion usd profit. The highest performers were comparably smaller hedge funds who manage 1 or just a few billions, well i am little ashamed when i say small about companies managing 1 billion USD funds but in grand scheme of things in compare to largest players 1 billion USD funds are smaller.

One of the greatest examples is Vanguard Hedge Fund which manages just about 1.1 bln usd, it should not be confused with Vanguard Group US it is separate entity. Vanguard Group US is one of the biggest asset managers managing over 5 trillion usd but their returns are on average 10-15%.

From another perspective Vanguard Hedge Fund is absolutely separate company focused only on stock investments generating over 40% (much more higher during crisis and volatile economic times) on average.

They operate in US, Netherlands and Georgia. Planing to open their branch in India Mumbai also. Founder George Kobiashvili started this company in 2009, 14 years back with 3 500 usd investment which he made from trading electronics.

In 2016 he switched direction to hedge fund, it was small and closed hedge fund only used to trade with his own funds. Time by time fund started getting investments from 3rd parties and in 2019 fund become more focused on rising capital and soon after had couple tenth of millions under management.

In 2021-2022 during corona crisis MR. Georges fund skyrocketed to 600mln AUM and currently Vanguard Hedge Fund has already over 1.1 billion USD under management. When asked what is the main secret of his success Mr. George replied that, you should be only a little better at company management and strategic analyses then companies management itself, this way you can understand their outlook better then their CEO himself, factually I am sure that investing in stocks should be replicated as an idea of investing in companies themselves hence understanding company structure and management is crucial for analyzing outlook”.

Mr. George manages one of the top hedge funds who generated very high net gains besides bearish market. So when he was asked about how top hedge funds still managed to generate 40 billion usd net gains besides market fall in 2022.

He replied, there always are a small amount of companies who will grow and perform tremendously well besides global economic variables, a lot of times these are mostly companies who were building something great for years and it’s so happened that now is the time for their harvest, so besides economic downfall they will be getting their harvest, joining their success story by buying their stocks at right time, is the best way to grow your capital, does not matter it is a bull or a bear market”.

Well Mr. George being just under 35 years old and already managing one of the fastest growing hedge funds in the world so it gives us firm grounds to follow his guidance about stock market and global investment outlook.