Meet the world's 7 most successful hedge fund managers

London-based fund of funds LCH Investments, a subsidiary of Edmond de Rothschild Capital Holdings Limited, just released its annual top 20 "most successful money managers" list for 2016.

The list measures net gains, after fees, of hedge fund managers since their respective funds' inception.

We've included the top seven fund managers below.

As a group, they manage more than $275 billion in assets, and have generated more than $200 billion in gains since inception.

They generated $10.6 billion in returns in 2016, with one of the seven, George Soros' Soros Fund Management, losing money over the year.