Andreas Halvorsen

Andreas Halvorsen was born in Norway and studied economics at the Norwegian School of Economics. He served in the Norwegian Special Forces before moving to the United States to earn his MBA from Stanford University. He worked as a portfolio manager at Julian Robertson's Tiger Management, where he was mentored in intensive fundamental equity research. In 1999 he co-founded Viking Global Investors, initially with $350 million in capital. Viking Global has grown to manage over $50 billion, making it one of the world's largest hedge funds and among the most successful Tiger Cub firms. The fund pursues a global long-short equity strategy characterised by intensive fundamental research — Halvorsen has built a culture at Viking that is known for exceptionally deep and thorough company analysis. Viking typically holds concentrated long positions in companies it has high conviction on while maintaining a diversified short book. The fund has delivered approximately 20%+ annualised returns since inception — a multi-decade performance record that places Viking among the top handful of long-short equity managers in history. Halvorsen is known as an extremely private individual who avoids public appearances and media attention, allowing Viking's performance to speak for itself.