Famous investors and their portfolios
The 28 most influential investors in history: the firms they built, what they believed in their own words, the positions that made them famous and the trades that defined them.
About this page
Explore famous investors, their portfolios and the ideas behind their most important trades. Great Investors groups historical profiles by investing style, with the firms they built, notable holdings and quotations that explain their thinking.
The profiles are case studies, not a live list of everything each investor owns. Historical successes and failures show how an approach worked in its own setting; a famous name does not make the same trade suitable today.
Use Institutional Trades for recent SEC filings and quarterly portfolio changes. Hedge Fund Performance shows dated reported fund returns, while Model Portfolios and Portfolio Backtester let you test an allocation of your own.
Where can I find Warren Buffett portfolio information?
The Great Investors profile covers Buffett’s approach and notable historical investments. Institutional Trades follows Berkshire Hathaway filings and quarterly changes; those disclosures describe the company’s reported holdings, not Buffett’s personal portfolio.
Where can I follow Michael Burry or Bill Ackman holdings?
Institutional Trades includes filings for Scion Asset Management and Pershing Square. Read the reporting period as well as the filing date: a disclosed position may have changed before you see it.
Are these famous investor portfolios updated live?
The historical profiles describe selected holdings and defining trades. They are not real-time portfolios; use Institutional Trades for the available dated SEC disclosures.
Can I compare hedge fund performance here?
Hedge Fund Performance is the separate page for publicly reported fund returns. Holdings disclosures alone do not reveal a fund’s return, leverage, fees or all its hedges.
Should I copy a famous investor’s portfolio?
These profiles explain investment decisions rather than recommending trades. Different time horizons, liquidity needs and risk limits can make the same position behave very differently for another investor.