Ray Dalio founded Bridgewater Associates in 1975. He grew it into one of the world’s largest hedge funds by 2005. As of 2021 his hedge fund has over $160 billion in total assets under management. Ray Dalio is the 85th richest person in the world according to Forbes with a net worth of approximately $20.3 billion.
Bridgewater’s Pure Alpha strategy has generated a 12% annualized return since its beginning in December 1991.
Below is the current Ray Dalio portfolio in 2021. This is a breakdown of his Bridgewater Associates Holdings portfolio positions from his fund’s 13F filings as of the 4th quarter after his 2020 Q4 update on February 12, 2021. (Positions under 0.30% of capital in his portfolio have been excluded).
Below are the top 53 Bridgewater Associates holdings in this portfolio with $11.55 billion in assets under management as of the beginning of 2021:
Position ranked by size/Ticker symbol/Company or ETF name/Portfolio percentage
- SPY Spdr S&p 500 11.93%
- VWO Vanguard Ftse Emerging Markets Etf 5.71%
- GLD Spdr Gold Trust 4.61%
- WMT Wal-mart Stores Inc 3.84%
- PG Procter And Gamble Co 3.25%
- BABA Alibaba Group Holding Ltd Sp A 3.22%
- IEMG Ishares Core Msci Emerging Markets Etf 2.89%
- IVV Ishares Core S&p 500 Etf 2.60%
- IAU Ishares Gold Trust 2.43%
- PDD Pinduoduo Inc Sponsored Ads 2.19%
- KO Coca Cola Co 2.15%
- JNJ Johnson & Johnson 2.00%
- PEP Pepsico Inc 1.90%
- EEM Ishares Msci Emerging Index Fund 1.71%
- COST Costco Wholesale Corp 1.59%
- MCD Mcdonald’s Corp 1.43%
- FXI Ishares China Large-cap Etf 1.43%
- VEA Vanguard Ftse Developed Markets Etf 1.39%
- EFA Ishares Msci Eafe Etf 1.35%
- LQD Ishares Iboxx $ Investment Grade Corporate Bond Etf 1.32%
- JD Jd Com Inc 1.30%
- IEFA Ishares Trust 1.25%
- MCHI Ishares Msci China Etf 1.16%
- SBUX Starbucks Corp 1.10%
- BIDU Baidu 0.94%
- EL Lauder Estee Cos Cl- A 0.87%
- ABT Abbott Labs 0.86%
- NIO Nio Inc Spon Ads 0.83%
- TGT Target Corp 0.82%
- DHR Danaher Corp 0.80%
- MDLZ Mondelez International Inc 0.74%
- EWT Ishares Inc Ishares Msci Taiwan Etf 0.68%
- CL Colgate Palmolive Co 0.67%
- CVS Cvs Health Corp 0.48%
- DG Dollar Gen Corp New 0.48%
- ISRG Intuitive Surgical Inc 0.47%
- MNST Monster Beverage Corp New 0.47%
- JPM Jpmorgan Chase & Co 0.45%
- EDU New Oriental Ed & Tech Grp I 0.45%
- TAL Tal Ed Group 0.45%
- KMB Kimberly Clark Corp 0.41%
- BEKE Ke Hldgs Inc Sponsored Ads 0.41%
- SYK Stryker Corp 0.40%
- VEEV Veeva Sys Inc 0.39%
- NTES Netease 0.38%
- STZ Constellation Brands Inc 0.38%
- KHC Kraft Heinz Co 0.38%
- BAC Bank Amer Corp 0.37%
- CMG Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc 0.36%
- YUMC Yum China Hldgs Inc Com 0.36%
- BFB Brown Forman Corp Cl B 0.33%
- SYY Sysco Corp 0.32%
- GIS General Mls Inc 0.32%
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