Managers
DE Shaw & Co has agreed to pay $10m to settle Securities and Exchange Commission charges that it made employees sign agreements prohibiting the disclosure of confidential corporate information to third parties, without including an exception for potential SEC whistleblowers.
Quant hedge fund major AQR Capital Management upped its average pay to its 32 UK-based AQR Capital Management (Europe) staff by 2% in 2022 to £272k ($331k) per head, up from £266k ($324k) per head paid in 2021 to 35 people, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Citadel is preparing to take a much harder line over the SEC’s widening Wall Street WhatsApp probe than the almost two dozen banks that have already agreed to hefty settlements during the past two years over staff use of the messaging app, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The DMA-Swap strategy, an increasingly popular leverage and derivative strategy that helps Chinese hedge fund managers to skirt regulatory borrowing limits by having trades sit on brokers’ books, is allowing some funds to generate big returns in the country’s ailing stock markets, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Former Morgan Stanley currency trader Thiago Melzer, is set to close his Brazilian hedge fund, Upon Global Capital, having been hit by a double whammy of wrong-way wagers and rising double-digit interest rates in Brazil, according to a report by Bloomberg.
A 300% surge in graduate applications this year has prompted Rokos Capital Management, a $15.5bn London-based hedge fund firm, to draw up plans to ramp up its graduate intake programme next year, according to a report by Financial News.
Oil trader Pierre Andurand has seen year-to-date losses at his main Andurand Commodities Discretionary Enhanced fund shrink to 15% from more than 50% earlier in the year on the back of a resurgence in crude prices, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Elmar Zumbuehl, GAM’s chief risk officer, has been proposed as the company’s new CEO candidate after Randel Freeman, the hedge fund veteran who had been lined up for the role, backed out due to “unforeseen family circumstances”, according to a report by Financial News.
A consortium of investors led by Marshall Wace co-founder Paul Marshall looking to prepare a bid to acquire the Telegraph Group – publisher of the UK’s Daily and Sunday Telegraph newspapers – has won the support of Citadel founder Ken Griffin, according to a report by the Financial Times.
Caravel Capital Investments Incorporated, an event-driven market-neutral hedge fund based in Nassau, The Bahamas, has published an open letter urging Alpha Lithium Corporation shareholders to accept Tecpetrol’s ‘best and final’ CAD1.48 per share offer for the business.
