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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump's team of economic policy advisers is packed with moguls from the hedge fund and investment banking industries that he has railed against in the past.

And none of them are women - a demographic group he needs to court if he hopes to win in November.

Among the members of the 13-member team of advisers announced on Friday are hedge-fund billionaire John Paulson and investment bankers Steve Feinberg and Andy Beal, as well as a former top steel executive and a former high-ranking U.S. government official.

Here's a more detailed look at his team:


John A. Paulson
President and chief executive of investment firm Paulson & Co.

Paulson made billions of dollars by betting on the housing market's collapse, right before the financial crisis, and has long been an advocate of relying on gold as a guide to monetary policy.


Steven Mnuchin
National finance chairman of the Trump campaign

He made a fortune at Goldman Sachs and later started Dune Capital Management, which bailed out a failed California-based housing lender. Renamed OneWest, the bank was criticized for its harsh foreclosure practices. In Hollywood, Mnuchin has produced movies, including "American Sniper" and "Mad Max: Fury Road."


Steven Roth
Founder and chairman of Vornado Realty Trust, the largest owner of commercial real estate in New York City

He and Trump have frequently competed for properties and have teamed up in deals.


Harold Hamm
Oklahoma oil magnate

Hamm is the chief executive and founder of Continental Resources, which owns stakes in the shale-rich Bakken Formation. Last year, he sold Hiland Partners, an oil pipeline and gathering company, for $3 billion. He was Mitt Romney's energy adviser during the 2012 presidential campaign.


Howard M. Lorber
Chief executive of Vector Group, a holding company of tobacco and real estate interests.

Lorber was named by Trump as one of his best friends and once appeared on his television show "The Apprentice."


Andrew Beal
A self-taught math whiz, the founder and president of Beal Bank, and an avid poker player

Beal made a lot of money in the recession, buying distressed assets around the country. Beal, with investor Carl Icahn, sued Trump for control of Trump Entertainment Resorts in Atlantic City, New Jersey, after the company filed for bankruptcy. They failed, and Beal says now there are "no hard feelings."

He describes himself as a libertarian and previously backed Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky. In an interview in June, he said he did not know much about Trump's policy goals but trusted him to manage the economy.


Thomas Barrack Jr.
Founder and executive chairman of the Los Angeles-based Colony Capital

A longtime friend, Barrack previously worked with Trump and sold him the Plaza Hotel. Barrack has some government experience as a deputy undersecretary for the Interior Department in the Ronald Reagan administration. He founded a super PAC, Rebuild America Now, to support the Trump campaign.


Stephen M. Calk
Chief executive of the Federal Savings Bank

Calk has been critical of financial overhauls and regulations, including those advanced under the Dodd-Frank legislation approved by Congress after the financial crisis and supported by President Barack Obama.


David Malpass
A former chief economist at Bear Stearns who later founded an economic consulting firm

Malpass made his own bid for office in 2010, running to be New York's Republican senatorial nominee. He has worked in Washington before, in the Reagan and George H.W. Bush administrations and as an analyst in Congress. A prominent contributor to The Wall Street Journal opinion pages, he helped lead an attack by conservatives of the Federal Reserve's aggressive asset-purchasing program in 2010.


Dan DiMicco
Former president and chief executive of the Nucor Corp., one of the country's largest steel-makers

Last year, DiMicco published "American Made: Why Making Things Will Return Us to Greatness," which argues that a strong manufacturing sector is essential to maintaining a comfortable middle class. He has long maintained that every trade agreement has been a negative for the United States.


Steve Feinberg
Founder and chief executive of Cerberus Capital Management, a private equity firm

Cerberus bought the failing carmaker Chrysler in 2007. Feinberg promised to revive Chrysler but lost billions of dollars before it was restructured in a government-sponsored bankruptcy in 2009.


Peter Navarro
A professor of economics and public policy in the business school at the University of California, Irvine, and director of the documentary film "Death by China."

Navarro is one of a minority of academic economists who argue that free trade is bad for America.


Stephen Moore
A visiting fellow at the conservative Heritage Foundation's Project for Economic Growth

Moore has been an ardent proponent of a flat tax. He founded the anti-tax group Club for Growth, and later was a member of The Wall Street Journal's editorial board. Moore advised Sen. Rand Paul before he dropped out of the presidential race.


With files from Reuters and New York Times.