candidates gravitate to those who are willing to and able to provide huge sums of money and ken griffin proven himself willing to do that. >> reporter: griffin is worth an estimated $7 billion, according to "forbes." >> accounts for nearly 10% of the daily trading volume of u.s. equities. >> reporter: with $26 billion in investment capital, citadel, his pet project is one of the largest investment firms in the world. griffin isn't shy about spending his cash. ♪ i need you by me >> reporter: an extravagant wedding reception in 2003, starring disco queen donna summer at the palace of versailles in france according to "fortune" magazine, the same location where kim kardashian and kanye west held part of their lavish multicity wedding. griffin's marriage fell apart about a decade later and the divorce played prominently on the front pages of tabloids around the world. his ex-wife requesting support of nearly $1 million a month. as for real estate, four luxurious properties in sunny palm beach, florida, with more than 28,000 square feet. homes in aspen, colorado, hawaii, and new york, accord

dosaw ken griffin's citadel well again.returns at least 11% since the financial crisis and doing well again this year. alix: does that mean to imply that the ones that closed were much more smaller-focused? peggy: yeah, exactly. we saw fortress close down the macro hedge fund, and one of the best of their he struggled with his currency trades, in terms of the swiss franc. surprised a lot of investors in january. we saw others have issues they were consolidating in energy companies, or a stock like valiant. yearw people struggle this , some big names, like bill einhorns well as david at greenlight capital. what is tending to happen among the ones who have struggled this year is they have concentrated positions that have not worked out well. alix: one to the ones that have performed well say about 2016 in terms of what kind of year that may be? peggy: i think hedge funds across the board are saying it is a tough market for them the past several years because of liquidity and a volatile markets. again, they are saying they exp

and now we've had this week ken griffin, a billionaire hedge funder in chicago endorsing rubio, paulope down in north carolina. big gop donor. >> right. >> so there has been this sudden -- i spend my days interviewing the wealthy. there has been this sudden coalescing by the wealthy among rubio. >> mika. isn't it interesting that hillary clinton is sitting at 34% to marco rubio's 14% but she is actually trying to deliver the message for the middle class. look at the zpemt independent voters, her support among democratic millionaires, 76%. >> what do you make of that? what did you all fine? >> it's not surprising that bernie sanders is not going to take a lot of headway with this group, right? but she hasn't lost support among this group. and then independence, she is still if number one choice. so she is still polling really heavy at the top. >> is jeb bush the john conley of this period, spending $30 '02 million. >> up to $50 million. >> do you see that disproportion? >> what's going to be interesting is that what we know about welcome is that wealth follows wealth. you get the big