Steve Cohen’s Point72 has demonstrated the value it places on nurturing the next-generation of quant analysts, by offering a bumper $300k salary for a teacher to educate its up and coming graduate trainees, according to a report by eFinancialCareers.
Digital prime brokerage GCEX, which enables brokers, fund managers, hedge funds and professional traders to access liquidity in FX and digital assets, has appointed Tilman Schultz as head of partnerships to accelerate growth in Europe.
Quant fund Jump Trading is suing a “special” trader who left the firm to a join hedge fund in a bid to delay him taking up his new role to protect proprietary secrets that are the “lifeblood of its business”,
Sean George, a portfolio manager at Millennium Capital Partners, is leaving the $50 billion multi-strategy hedge fund firm firm to return to his sell-side roots having first begun his finance industry career in banking with firms including UBS, Bank of
King Street Capital Management, a global alternative investment firm managing more than $22 billion in assets across public and private markets, has appointed William McGirr as a managing director in the firm’s Marketing and Investor Relations team.
Pine River Capital Management, an alternative asset manager with approximately $7 billion under management across hedge funds, managed accounts and listed investment vehicles, has appointed Fernando Gardner and Jason Yeung as managing director in Marketing and Investor Relations and MBS
Geneva-based asset management company Noble Capital Management (NCM) SA has appointed Nicolas Ganne as Senior Portfolio Manager. He will be in charge of developing the range of trading strategies implemented within the framework of NCM’s antifragile investment. Prior to joining
Former Goldman Sachs vice president Dan VanBeek has been appointed as the new head of governance, risk and compliance at Jersey-based macro and derivatives hedge fund Brevan Howard, according to a report by Financial News. At Brevan Howard, VanBeek, who
Channel Capital Cayman, an independent directorship service provider to global hedge and private equity funds and investment vehicles, has expanded its Cayman Islands team with the appointment of Martin Laufer as fund director. Channel Capital Cayman, which serves investment funds
Hedge fund majors Millennium Management and DE Shaw are both actively hiring technologists in India with a focus on data scientists and data engineers as they ramp up operations in the country, according to a report by ET CIO. New
