43 Good Names For Investment Companies: Use Our Generator

Published on September 22, 2016 at 5:34 pm by Tim Frederick in Lists

Good names for investment companies are not easy to come by. You may be one of the brightest minds in the financial world, a veritable genius when it comes to predicting companies’ fortunes and how the market sentiment will ebb, shift, flow, and do all sorts of other crazy gymnastics routines around them. You may even have toiled away at other firms, perhaps even at some of the best performing hedge funds tracked by Insider Monkey, have industry contacts up the wazoo (which may or may not be painful, I wouldn’t know), and are ready for your grand entrance on the financial stage with the launch of your own money managing shop.

Only problem? You can’t think up a darn name for your world-beating institution.

Good investment company names can be surprisingly more difficult to formulate than you might think; more difficult even than calculating a company’s five-year earnings growth rate or figuring out the likelihood that Justin Bieber will launch his own clothing store and how much that would pressure Ralph Lauren Corp (NYSE:RL)’s margins. While the name might not matter much by the time your fund is pulling in 20% annual returns, because even the Call of Duty Rulez!!1!one! Fund would attract investor money by that point, things aren’t quite so simple when you’re literally nothing but your name.

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That’s where we come in. Using our custom-made investment company name generator, we’ve come up with 43 good names for investment companies which exhibit an ideal mix of stateliness and bravado (and a decided lack of Call of Duty). The names on this list could probably be turned into names for real estate investment companies as well; they’re that good. If nothing else, the following list should provide you with some inspiration to come up with some stellar names of your own. If you’re looking for some additional investment inspiration, be sure to check out this list of The 20 Most Inspirational Warren Buffett Quotes on Business, Investing and Life.

Before we get to our list though, we’ll take a look at three of the most commonly used investment company names rule standards in use today. Head to the next pages to get some examples of current hedge funds names before being blown away by our list of good names for investment companies on the final page.

Standard Hedge Fund Naming Rule #1 – Naming the Fund After Yourself

While eponymous hedge fund naming does take a certain level of bravado, let’s be honest: this is for those who have simply given up on coming up with a more interesting name. Your fund’s name would almost certainly be unique, but it would also be devoid of zing, zip, zest, and any other Z-word that connotes a non-boring name.

Hedge funds named after their founders abound, from Carl Icahn‘s Icahn Capital, to George Soros’ Soros Fund Management, to John Paulson’s Paulson & Co. There’s also Stark Investments, which is not betting on the Starks winning the Game of Thrones, but rather is an investment firm founded by Brian Stark.

Somewhat more unique cases of eponymous naming are found in funds managed by multiple family members or people, as is the case with Julian Baker and Felix Baker’s Baker Bros. Advisors, and Kahn Brothers, founded by Irving Kahn and his sons Alan Kahn and Thomas Graham Kahn. There’s also Vollero Beach Capital Partners, which you’d think was named after an actual beach, but is instead just the mashed together last names of its founders Robert Vollero and Gentry T. Beach. And now let’s see the rule number two when trying to come up with good names for investment companies.

Standard Hedge Fund Naming Rule #2 – Places/Things of Personal Import

This certainly beats naming a fund after yourself, while still injecting a little bit of your personality or history into your name. In terms of investing history, we see a number of ‘Tiger Cubs’ who worked under Tiger Management’s Julian Robertson, proudly carry on the Tiger name with their own hedge funds. Benjamin Gambill’s Tiger Eye Capital, Chase Coleman’s Tiger Global Management, and Jesse Ro’s Tiger Legatus Capital are just three.

Places are commonly used in hedge fund names, including Bill Ackman’s Pershing Square, which is named after a Manhattan intersection of the same name, and Peter Franklin Palmedo’s Sun Valley Gold, which is based in Sun Valley, Idaho and invests in rubber bands stocks; or maybe it was gold stocks, I forget. There’s also Scott Ferguson’s Sachem Head Capital, which is named after a nature spot in Highland Park, Massachusetts and not after Special Head, that creepy magician who was on America’s Got Talent.

Personal interests can also fuel hedge fund names. Paul Sinclair has been the founder of two hedge funds, Expo Capital Management and Blue Jay Capital Management, which any baseball fan (all 11,292 of them) would recognize as being named after Canada’s two MLB teams, the Montreal Expos (now the Washington Nationals) and the Toronto Blue Jays (who made the playoffs for the first time in 22 painful years in 2015).

Standard Hedge Fund Naming Rule #3 – Impressive or Stately-Sounding Names

Lastly is hedge fund names that may not mean much, but they sure sound cool or dependable. Good examples are Robert Pitts’ Steadfast Capital Management, Steve Shapiro’s Intrepid Capital Management, and Richard C. Patton’s Courage Capital.

Trees are also a popular choice for hedge fund names and icons, doubtless for the strength and stability they represent, not to mention all that other juicy tree goodness that can be twisted into half-baked investment philosophising like letting your investments take “root”, and watering your portfolio so its branches grow strong. Stephen Mandel’s Lone Pine Capital, Fir Tree, founded by Jeffrey Tannenbaum, and Howard Marks’ Oaktree Capital Management are just a few of the tree hugging funds.

Some hedge funds take a literal approach to naming, asserting their investment philosophy right in their name. There’s Glenn W. Welling’s Engaged Capital (an activist fund that “engages” the management teams of companies), James A. Star‘s Longview Asset Management, and Tim Curro’s Value Holdings LP. For those aspiring hedge fund managers without much in the way of a philosophy, Throwing a Dart at a Dartboard LLC is still available.

43 Good Names For Investment Companies

We’ve come to the section where we supply you with 43 brilliant hedge fund name ideas from our self-created random generator, which we spewed a bunch of word lists into. We think you’ll agree that the results are spectacular. If our list hasn’t inspired you, then maybe you should forget about the hedge fund industry and think about getting into rubber bands instead. I know at least one investor who would be interested (I think…).