Jim Hough, a former hedge fund portfolio manager at BlueCrest and Brevan Howard, has joined Nomura as a managing director on the firm’s inflation trading desk, according to a report by eFinancialCareers.
Hough will report to Pasquale Cataldi, Nomura’s head of rates trading, who’s been busy building out his team since arriving at the firm from JPMorgan in April.
Hough, left BlueCrest in December 2019 and, according to his LinkedIn profile, has spent his time since then “hanging out in East Sussex running a vineyard”.
Other recent appointments to Cataldi’s team include Jordan Griffiths from Deutsche Bank and Elena Agosti from Unicredit, based in Milan. Further appointments are expected.
