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Bruce Kovner: From a $3,000 Credit Card to $14 Billion


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Bruce Kovner borrowed $3,000 on a MasterCard in 1977 to bet on soybean futures β€” and it changed everything.


A Harvard dropout and former NYC taxi driver, Kovner founded Caxton Associates in 1983 with just $12 million and turned it into one of the most profitable hedge funds in history, returning $12.8 billion to clients by 2010.


At its peak, Caxton managed over $14 billion, posting a 55.6% average annual return in its first decade. The man who once drove cabs now chairs his own family office and donates rare music manuscripts to Juilliard.


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