Viking Global Investors
Viking Global Investors is a long/short equity hedge fund. The fund employs a bottom-up fundamental stock-picking strategy for its investments in equities in the U.S. and Europe. It focuses on the financial, telecommunication, media, technology, and consumer sectors. Viking Global Investors is based in New York and was founded in October, 1999 by Andreas Halvorsen, David Ott, and Brian Olson.
Messers. Halvorsen, Ott, and Olson worked together at Tiger Management Corp. All three left Tiger in early 1999.
