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Millennium has added another Goldman Sachs commodities trader to its team, with Katie Edin, a Vice President in the bank’s natural gas trading division in New York, joining the multi-strategy hedge fund major, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Edin’s arrival at Millennium follows the appointment of Goldman’s oil trading ‘superstar’ Anthony Dewell, who made the switch in October last year.
Edin, who takes up the role of Portfolio Manager at Millennium with a focus on North American power and gas, spent over eight years at Goldman Sachs, serving as Vice President Natural Gas Derivatives Trading for the last
Former Millennium Co-CIO Bobby Jain has tapped Elliot Management veteran Jamie Hobbeheydar to head up investor relations and marketing at the new multi-strategy, multi-manager firm he is set to launch next year, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The SBAI has appointed Richard Johnston, Partner at Albourne Partners, as the new Chair of the SBAI APAC Committee. Johnston, who succeeds Ted Lee, will now head up and lead the SBAI’s activities and initiatives in the APAC region.
Membership of the SBAI APAC Committee is equally split between asset owners and managers, underlining its commitment to neutrality.
The SBAI, an active alliance of over 150 alternative asset managers and over 100 institutional investors dedicated to advancing responsible practice, partnership and knowledge, has also expanded its APAC team by adding Annie Yang as APAC Co-Head to work alongside Tina Hu
Ankur Saboo has become the latest London-based bank managing director to jump ship to a hedge fund firm, with the 14-year-veteran oil, power, and gas options trader quitting Morgan Stanley to join Verition’s new Dubai operation, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Hedge fund majors Bridgewater Associates and Point72 Asset Management are both on the lookout for specialist China analysts as the firms look to keep abreast of Beijing’s economic and wider political policies, according to a report by the South China Morning Post.
Bobby Jain, the former Co-CIO of Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management, has made the first major hire for his upcoming hedge fund launch – former BofA executive Jonathan Barton, who has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer.
Jain, who was prevented from hiring staff until the start of this month as part of his exit agreement from Millennium, where he spent seven years, has wasted no time in tapping the former BofA Managing Director and Head of Equities Product Development and Strategic Initiatives. Barton will be tasked with helping to build-out what many on Wall Street are predicting will be one
Dymon Asia Capital, a Singapore-based, multi-strategy hedge fund firm that currently manages around $4bn in assets, has hired ex-Goldman Sachs Group managing director Jaewon Yu as it prepares to raise $1bn in fresh funds, according to a report by Bloomberg.
The report cites Deputy Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner Kenneth Kan as revealing that Dymon is adding to its current operations in Singapore, Hong Kong and Tokyo, with the opening of a new office in Mumbai, although Yu will be Hong Kong-based. Dymon is planning to ramp up its fundraising efforts in the US, the UK and Japan from
Derivatives and securities exchange network Cboe Global Markets, has promoted Jill Griebenow to Executive Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, replacing Brian Schell who will be departing the company to pursue a new professional opportunity outside of the exchange industry.
Griebenow will assume the new role beginning 10 July, 2023, after working alongside Schell for the past 12 years.
With more than 20 years of experience, Griebenow has served as Chief Accounting Officer since 2018, a role she will also continue to hold. Prior to that, Griebenow was Chief Financial Officer of Cboe’s European operations, charged with managing the
Verition Fund Management has become the latest hedge fund to announce plans to open an office in Dubai, following a host of other managers who have expanded to the UAE’s financial hub, including BlueCrest, Millennium Management and ExodusPoint Capital Management, according to a report by Reuters.
New York-headquartered hedge fund Millennium Management is planning to expand its operation in India by launching a recruitment drive to fill more than 20 vacancies at its office in Bengaluru, according to a report by The Financial News.
The report cites an unnamed source with knowledge of the matter as revealing that Millennium, which manages around $59bn in assets, currently has 21 open roles in the city.
Vacancies include a Java engineer, a team lead for treasury technology, a compliance surveillance analyst and a quantitative developer, while the firm is also reportedly looking to recruit a quantitative researcher.
In June,
