I found it very interesting annual returns are able to get the big hedge funds, also known as the most profitable investment funds in the world.

We understand how big hedge funds who manage more than 1,000 million dollars.

In the list we have the 100 with better performance in 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12) and we can compare it with the result obtained in the previous year (2,011).

In the list we can see that most of Hedge Funds exceeds 1,000 million managed and some 5,000 million.

The best-performing hedge funds have gained hover between 20% and 40%, which is not bad considering the vast amounts of capital managed.

In this post I put the list of the top 12, with photo of the manager and all data relating to the company, the name of the fund, the strategy used and the yields obtained.

The full list of the 100 best in the big hedge funds you have it here .

1st.

Background: Metacapital Mortgage Opportunities .

Manager: Deepak Narula.

Location: USA.

Company: Metacapital Management.

Strategy: Mortgage-backed arbitrage

Managed capital: 1,500 million

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 37.8%

Performance in the year 2011: 23.6%

2nd.

Background: Pine River Fixed Income.

Manager: Steve Kuhn.

Location: USA.

Company: Pine River Capital Management.

Strategy: Mortgage-backed arbitrage

Managed capital: 3.600 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 32.9%

Performance in the year 2011: 4.8%

3rd.

Background: CQS Directional Opportunities. manager Michael Hintze

Company: CQS.

Location: UK Strategy:

Multistrategy

Managed capital: 1.500 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 28.9%

Performance in the year 2011: -10.4%

4th.

Background: Pine River Liquid Mortgage .

Manager: Steve Kuhn.

Location: USA

Company: Chen Jiayi Pine River Capital Management.

Strategy: Mortgage-backed arbitrage

Managed capital: 1.100 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 28.0%

Performance in the year 2011: 7.2%

5th.

Background: Omega Overseas Partners .

Manager: Leon Cooperman

Company: Omega Advisors.

Location: USA.

Strategy: Long / short

Managed capital: 1.400 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 21.7%

Performance in the year 2011: -1.4%

6th.

Fund: European Odey. manager: Crispin Odey.

Location: UK

Company: Odey Asset Management.

Strategy: Macro

Managed capital: 1.800 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 24.1%

Performance in the year 2011: -20.3%

7th.

Background: Marathon Securitized Credit .

Managers: Bruce Richards, Louis Hanover

Company: Marathon Asset Management.

Location: USA.

Strategy: Asset backed

Managed capital: 1.200 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 24.0%

Performance in the year 2011: - 4.2%

8th.

Background: Palomino .

Manager: David Tepper

Company: Appaloosa Management.

Location: USA.

Strategy: Multistrategy

Managed capital: 4.900 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 24.0%

Performance in the year 2011: -3.5%

9th.

Background: BTG Pactual GEMM.

Managers: Team managed (Andre Esteves)

Company: BTG Pactual Global Asset Management.

Location: USA.

Strategy: Macro

Managed capital: 3.600 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 23.1%

Performance in the year 2011: 3.4%

10 °.

Fund: Third Point Ultra .

Manager: Daniel Loeb

Company: Third Point.

Location: USA.

Strategy: Multistrategy

Managed capital: 1.300 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 22.1%

Performance in the year 2011: -2.3%

11 º.

Background: Seer Capital Partners.

Manager: Philip Weingord

Company: Seer Capital Management.

Location: USA.

Strategy: Asset backed

Managed capital: 1.200 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 21.6%

Performance in the year 2011: 2.1%

12 º.

Background: Tiger Global .

Managers: Feroz Dewan, Chase Coleman

Company: Tiger Global Management.

Location: USA.

Strategy: Long / short

Managed capital: 6.000 billion.

Performance in the year 2012 (from 01-01-12 to 31-10-12): 21.0%

Performance in the year 2011: 45.0%