re: Consolidation keeps coming for hedge funds and other prestige sectors in finance

Haha... me too. Unfortunately, Citadel and Point72 are not publicly traded, but some of the p.e. and other firms are (" 10 Publicly Traded Hedge Funds That Pay a Dividend"):

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BlackRock, Inc. (BLK ) 4 years
Blackstone Group L.P. (BX ) 1 year
Invesco Ltd. (IVZ ) 5 years
Oaktree Capital Group LLC (OAK ) 1 year
Och-Ziff Capital Management (OZM ) 1 year
Lazard Ltd. (LAZ ) 3 years
KKR & Co. L.P. (KKR ) n/a
Fortress Investment Group (FIG ) 1 year
Apollo Global Management (APO ) n/a
Janus Capital Group (JNS ) 3 years

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That was from October 2014, so keep in mind that it's an old list.

EDIT: I suppose I could add Teza Technologies, KCG Holdings, Och-Ziff, and Partners Groups to my elite lists in the original post.

Quant Hedge Funds
Two Sigma, Renaissance Technologies, AQR Capital, D.E. Shaw, Citadel, Point72 (formerly SAC), Tower Research, Jane Street, Winton Capital, Teza Technologies, Hutchin Hill, Systematica (formerly Bluecrest), WorldQuant (formerly Millennium Management), Ellington, Hudson River, Jump Trading, KCG Holdings, Morgan Stanley PDT, Man Group AHL, RG Niederhoffer, Highbridge, etc.

Huge Asset Management Operations
BlackRock, Bridgewater, Oppenheimer, PIMCO, Janus, Vanguard, Fidelity

Huge Institutional Investors
CalPERS, Yale Investments Office, etc.

Private Equity Firms
Blackstone, KKR, Carlyle, Fortress, Ares, Apollo, TPG, Bain, Oaktree, Ardian

Maverick Private Equity Investors
Carl Icahn, Bill Ackman, David Einhorn
(George Soros might be considered as running a maverick hedge fund.)

Venture Capital Firms
Sequoia Capital, Greylock Partners, Kleiner Perkins, Bessemer Venture Partners, Andreessen Horowitz, New Enterprise Associates, Accel Partners, Redpoint Ventures, Benchmark Capital, Highland Capital Partners, Institutional Venture Partners, Atlas Venture