Billionaire quant investing pioneer and philanthropist James Simons, who founded systematic hedge fund investment firm Renaissance Technologies, has died at the age of 86, according to a report by Reuters.
Yun Zhou, a former macro portfolio manager at global macro hedge fund major Brevan Howard, has moved to the banking sector in joining Citi as a Managing Director based in New York, where he will focus on rates options trading,
Point72 has added another Portfolio Manager to its team with the appointment of Ketan Gada from Swiss asset manager Pictet Asset Management, where he served as Head of Total Return Emerging Markets Fixed Income, according to a report by CityWire.
Shin Kobayashi, Head of Japanese Government Bond Trading at Citigroup, has joined $9.9bn multi-strategy hedge fund Verition Fund Management as a Portfolio Manager focusing on yen rates trading, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Diversified systematic asset manager Florin Court Capital has appointed Mike de Groot as Managing Director – Product Management. De Groot previously worked with the Florin Court team at Man/AHL.
Ken Griffin’s multi-strategy major Citadel has recruited Georgios Kotsalis, a former Applied Scientist in Amazon’s core AI team as a Quantitative Researcher based in the firm’s office in New York, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Gerald Chua, a Partner and Deputy Portfolio Manager at David Mercurio’s Singapore-based stock-picking hedge fund firm Lauro Asset Management, has joined multi-family office Kamet Capital as a Portfolio Manager, according to a report by Citywire Asia.
BlueCrest Capital, the multi-strategy hedge fund firm-turned family office run by Michael Platt, is planning a 10% increase in the number of its trading teams by the end of this year on the back of returns trouncing many macro hedge
Multi-strategy hedge fund firm LMR Partners has bolstered its commodities team to tap into potential investment opportunities from a new oil-based strategy it launched earlier this year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Fidelity Prime Services, the prime brokerage of Fidelity Investments’s institutional trading arm, has appointed Jeffrey Cantafio as Vice President of Business Consulting in New York, where he will report to James Coughlin, Senior Vice President, Prime Services.
