Less than a year after retiring, Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, is threatening his former colleagues with the one thing they have worked hard to prevent: his return.
The billionaire investor, who is 74, doesn’t necessarily want to come back to run the firm he founded 50 years ago.
Bridgewater’s main fund has been on a downward slide since Mr. Dalio’s retirement.
Some of Bridgewater’s top staff and board members, including its chief executive, Nir Bar Dea, whom Mr. Dalio appointed, have repeatedly told him that they will quit if he interferes.
They fear that Mr. Dalio might use the proposed fund as a way to come back and reassert control, according to people briefed on internal deliberations but not authorized to speak publicly.
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