In the 1980's, the two became interested in a fund, founded in 1969, managed by J. W. Kaufmann.

The fund, founded in 1996 by Munder Capital Management of Birmingham, Mich., closed to new investors in April 2000 after growing to $12 billion.

Greenlight Capital is a hedge fund founded by David Einhorn.

The first gold exchange-traded product was Central Fund of Canada, a closed-end fund founded in 1961.

GreenBytes recently raised $12 million in funding from Generation Investment Management, a fund founded by Al Gore.

The fund, founded after the British-Irish agreement of November 1985, has been criticized for being slow to dole out money.

Caissa Capital was a hedge fund founded by Jonathan Kinlay in 2002, based on his research on volatility arbitrage in the late 1990s.

Tiger Management Corp., also known as "The Tiger Fund," was a hedge fund founded by Julian Robertson.

The Malpas Institute Trust is a charitable fund, founded on the sale of the World War I Memorial Institute.

The Baupost Group, LLC, is a hedge fund founded and run by Seth Klarman in 1982.