Response from: RBH    (04/11/07 10:49am)

I'd dearly love to see the distribution across all those student HF managers.

Response from: Alex Åkesson    (04/11/07 1:11pm)

Here are the top 5;

Shan Sarwar-
$1,294,114.70-

Zan Zhang-
$1,215,375.61-

Danny Pastor-
$1,185,811.19-

Bobby Holmes-
$1,143,115.17-

Robert Fine-
$1,134,565.53

Response from: RBH    (04/12/07 1:19am)

Um, I appreciate that, but what would be informative is the distribution of returns across all participants. That would tell us a little something about the probabilities associated with the reported returns. Hedge fund managers and traders (I'm a trader) are a whole lot more interested in variance than just extremes or means.

Response from: Alex Åkesson    (04/13/07 4:44am)

Oops, I misunderstood, a request is on it's way.

Response from: Alex Åkesson    (04/13/07 9:34am)

They only listed the top two that I could find;

1. Jason Mah - $1,451,618.98 - University of Victoria with a 45% return on investment.

2. DeanPetrovic - $1,373,006.01 - York University (YIC), with a a 37% return on investment.

Hope that helps.

Response from: RBH    (04/13/07 11:39am)

Ah, well. Thanks for trying. It looks like it would be a nice dataset for looking at manager variation, since there's no survivorship bias and other confounds.