Top 7 New Buys By John Paulson

By Lalit Sharma:John Paulson is the founder and president of Paulson & Co., a New York-based hedge fund with $30 billion in assets under management. He is famous for his bet against subprime mortgages in the last downturn. The billionaire businessman earned $3.7 billion in 2008 by shorting mortgage-backed securities. More recently in 2010 he made $4.9 billion from his portfolio.

By Lalit Sharma: John Paulson is the founder and president of Paulson & Co., a New York-based hedge fund with $30 billion in assets under management. He is famous for his bet against subprime mortgages in the last downturn. The billionaire businessman earned $3.7 billion in 2008 by shorting mortgage-backed securities. More recently in 2010, he made $4.9 billion from his portfolio.

By Lalit Sharma:John Paulson is the founder and president of Paulson & Co., a New York-based hedge fund with $30 billion in assets under management. He is famous for his bet against subprime mortgages in the last downturn. The billionaire hedge fund manager earned $3.7 billion in 2008 by shorting mortgage-backed securities. More recently in 2010 he made $4.9 billion from his portfolio.

Osman Gulseven submits:John Paulson is one of the prominent hedge fund managers on the Street. His company, Paulson & Co., has almost $30 billion of assets under management. His fund management style is distinctive and extremely complex. As a former investment banker, Paulson uses both merger arbitrage opportunities as well as credit default swap options. The billionaire businessman earned $3.7 billion dollars in 2008 by shorting the mortgage back securities.

By Osman Gulseven: John Paulson is one of the prominent hedge fund managers on the Street. His company, Paulson & Co., has almost $30 billion of assets under management. His fund management style is distinctive and extremely complex. As a former investment banker, Paulson uses both merger arbitrage opportunities as well as credit default swap options. The billionaire businessman earned $3.7 billion dollars in 2008 by shorting the mortgage back securities.

By Lalit Sharma:Founded by Seth Klarman in 1982, The Baupost Group, L.L.C. is a Boston, MA-based investment advisory and hedge fund firm. The fund follows "Deep Value" investment style and holds stocks for the long term. The following is a list of its best performing top buys from the last quarter. Stock Symbol

Lalit Sharma submits:Canyon Capital Advisors LLC is a hedge fund management firm founded by Joshua S. Friedman and Mitchell R. Julis. The firm manages over $10 billion in assets (equity plus fixed income) through the Canyon family of hedge funds, CSOF II Fund (Cayman), Ltd. and the CSOF II Fund, L.P. I discussed the Top Buys of Canyon in my previous article here.

Insider Monkey submits: John Paulson is president of one of the world's most famous hedge funds. He raked in more than $5 Billion in profits for his firm, Paulson & Co., last year. Paulson got his BA from New York University‘s College of Business and Public Administration and his MBA from Harvard Business School.