The wealthiest investors in 2017

It is Christmas time, research slows down, markets are calmer and trading volumes decrease at a rate inversely proportional to the rate of consumption of alcohol. At least that is how it is supposed to work.

What is plainly clear is that from now till the end of the year it gets increasingly difficult to gather information and generate ideas that are of much interest to the regular reader. The year is nearly over and hopefully whatever had to happen has already happened. Investment decisions have been made and barring any unfortunate turn of events, accumulated profits should last onto the New Year.

So, faced with a blank screen and since we are now living in the age of billionaires, I thought it would be interesting to present a list of the wealthiest fund managers in 2017. The following list does not include the wealthiest people in the world but only those that have made money through investments. The following information is sourced from Forbes.

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