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Ray Dalio-founded hedge fund firm Bridgewater Associates has promoted Joanna Alpert, general manager for China, to lead its new Total Portfolio Strategies unit, which will develop and manage new investment products, according to a report by Reuters.Â
New York-based hedge fund firm Two Sigma Investments has appointed Ali-Milan Nekmouche to lead its new AI and machine learning team, according to a report by Bloomberg.Â
Citadel, the $58bn multi-strategy hedge fund major founded by Ken Griffin, has appointed Rupee Yadav, a Partner at Goldman Sachs, as its new Head of Electronic Trading, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Ovata Capital Management, the Hong Kong-based hedge fund firm led by BlueCrest Capital Management alumnus James Chen, has aded four Portfolio Managers to its trading team after assets at the firm surpassed the $1.1bn mark, according to a report by Bloomberg citing an unnamed source with knowledge of the matter.
Multi-strategy hedge fund major Balyasny Asset Management has appointed Samuel Donat, the former Global Head of Corporate Technology at Millennium Management, as its new Head of Enterprise Technology, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Aquatic Capital Management, a systematic hedge fund firm founded in 2019 by Jonathan Graham, the former Head of Statistical Arbitrage and Equity High-Frequency Trading at Citadel, has appointed David Harks as a software engineer, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Stanley Sheriff, a former Goldmans Sachs rates trader who has worked at FRW, LMR Partners, Millennium and Taula Capital Management since leaving the bank in 2018, will join Balyasny’s Dubai operation having spent under a month at Taula, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
MarketAxess Holdings, the operator of a leading electronic trading platform for fixed-income securities, has appointed John Maggiacomo to the newly-created role of Head of Client Sales in North America.
BCA Research, a provider of independent macro investment research to hedge funds and other asset management firms, has appointed Jing Sima as China Strategist. Sima will work closely with Arthur Budaghyan, BCA Chief EM/China Strategist.
Jain Global, the hedge fund founded by former Millennium Co-Chief Investment Officer Bobby Jain which is set to make a much anticipated debut next month, has appointed David Salpeter as Head of Leveraged Finance in New York.
