The Fund

The most explosive, mind-blowing business book I’ve ever read - and the most fun, too – Bradley Hope, bestselling author of Billion Dollar WhaleAt last, the era of the billionaire philosopher-king has a defining book. The Fund is a taut, nonfiction thriller – Bryan Burrough, bestselling author of Barbarians at the GateA classic American story about the most famous man on Wall Street - or the person he seems to be. The Fund manages to both shock and entertain at the same time – Philipp Meyer, bestselling author of American Rust and The SonJaw-dropping … well-told, well-structured and exquisitely reported – Financial Times book reviewA terrific dagger of a book, packed with cringey detail, just long enough to efficiently disembowel its subject. For anyone who has had an awful boss, The Fund is the perfect rage-read – Mark Gimein, reviewing for the New York TimesThe best thing I read in 2023 – Robin Wigglesworth, bestselling author of Trillions * Financial Times *Eye-opening … [teaches us] to be more sceptical about investment and management gurus * MoneyWeek *Explosive … rivetingly chronicles a traumatic social experiment in which hundreds of America’s sharpest Ivy League finance alums unwittingly became ensnared – Ben Naparstek, reviewing for The Australian

Rob Copeland is a banking and finance reporter for The New York Times. He was previously a long-time hedge-fund beat reporter at The Wall Street Journal, and has also covered Silicon Valley and the hidden worlds of the wealthy and powerful. His front-page investigations into Bridgewater Associates won a New York Press Club award; he was also awarded an honorable mention twice by the Society of American Business Editors and Writers (SABEW) and was named a News Media Alliance ‘Rising Star’ (formerly Top 30 Under 30). He has appeared on ABC’s ‘Good Morning America’, NPR and other major news networks. The Fund is his first book.