Tepper pips Paulson to hedge fund peak Former Goldman Sachs trader David Tepper made £2.5bn last year after betting on the US and Britain bailing out banks A man who keeps a sculpture of a pair of testicles in his office, which he rubs for luck, has emerged as the world’s richest hedge fund manager, pocketing £2.5bn in 2009 after betting that the US and British governments would not let banks fail. David Tepper, a 52-year-old former … Read more on Guardian Unlimited

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