Coatue manages roughly $60B AUM, including $25B in public equities
Michael Barton · Inside Coatue: $70B Hedge Fund’s AI & Retail Strategy · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea · Oct 23, 2025 · at 5:51
Michael Barton, Sector Head at Coatue Management, breaks down the hedge fund's asset allocation and AUM across public equities, venture/privates, and credit.
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“Cotu as a whole is probably, it's around sixty billion of assets under management. On the public equities, so we basically have public equities, which is around twenty-five billion, and then you've got a private's business, and then a credit business too.”
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