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Global financial services platform Marex has added Mark Ralph to its prime sales team based in London. In his new role, Ralph will serve hedge funds, family offices and private banks.Â
Jerome Saragoussi, Head of Macro Research and Strategy at Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, is leaving the firm to join Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge fund, in June, according to a report by Business Insider.
New York-based prime brokerage firm Clear Street has appointed Sean Hendelman, founder of T3, a trading, training and technology provider to professional traders, as Chief Executive Officer of its active trading division.
Quant hedge fund Qube Research & Technologies has continued its recent hiring spree with the appointment of Simon Bannister as Quantitative Technology Director, from the London Stock Exchange Group, where he served as Infrastucture Programme Director.
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, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
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.
