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 $223 billion in total assets under management. Ray Dalio is the 88th 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 top 50 biggest positions from his fund’s 13F filings as of the 1st quarter after his 2021 update on March 31, 2021. (Positions under 0.40% of capital in his portfolio have been excluded).
Top 10 holdings are a concentration of 38.93% of AUM.
Below are the top 50 Bridgewater Associates holdings in this primary 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 10.97%
VWO 5.09%
WMT 4.30%
PG 3.84%
BABA 2.80%
KO 2.63%
JNJ 2.48%
GLD 2.44%
PEP 2.23%
IEMG 2.14%
MCD 1.86%
COST 1.75%
FXI 1.56%
IVV 1.49%
SBUX 1.35%
PDD 1.32%
MCHI 1.29%
IAU 1.27%
LQD 1.26%
EL 1.21%
ABT 1.15%
TGT 1.00%
MDLZ 0.95%
JD 0.92%
DHR 0.88%
CL 0.77%
EWT 0.76%
BIDU 0.69%
BAC 0.62%
KMB 0.58%
NIO 0.57%
MNST 0.57%
JPM 0.55%
CVS 0.52%
ISRG 0.52%
DG 0.51%
VEA 0.50%
KHC 0.49%
LOW 0.49%
EFA 0.48%
WFC 0.48%
BEKE 0.48%
VEEV 0.47%
CMG 0.47%
IEFA 0.45%
WBA 0.44%
STZ 0.44%
SYK 0.40%
SYY 0.40%