Published on 4 Dec 2021 on Insider Monkey via Yahoo Finance
In this article, we discuss the top 10 new stock picks of Andreas Halvorsen’s Viking Global. If you want to skip our detailed analysis of these stocks, go directly to Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global Portfolio: 5 New Stock Picks.
Andreas Halvorsen is a Norwegian-born billionaire investor and hedge fund manager, who is the founding partner and chief executive officer of Viking Global, having established the Connecticut-based hedge fund in 1999. Viking Global has a portfolio worth over $36 billion, with a top ten holdings concentration of 37.94%, according to the 13F filings from September 2021.
Halvorsen graduated from Williams College in 1986, with a Bachelor’s in economics. He also attended Stanford University, graduating with an MBA in 1990. Halvorsen started his career with the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley (NYSE:MS), and then switched to Tiger Management, a hedge fund managed by Julian Robertson. At Tiger Management, Halvorsen worked across a variety of roles, serving as an analyst, the senior managing director, director of equities, and a member of the management committee, in addition to being a member of the fund’s advisory board. In 1999, Halvorsen left Tiger Management to co-found Viking Global.