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Aaron Weiner, a Managing Director at Coatue Management, the $40bn hedge fund founded by Philippe Laffont, will leave the firm at the end of the year to start his own hedge fund, according to a report by Bloomberg citing people with knowledge of the matter.Â
LiquidityBook, a provider of cloud-native buy- and sell-side trading solutions to hedge funds and other sophisticated clients, has appointed trading technology industry veteran Jason Morris as its new President.
Sebastian Stewart, a former Partner at Somerset Capital, has joined Pacific Asset Management as a Partner and Head of US Institutional Business Development. Based in the £4.5bn independent asset manager’s London office, he will report to Global Head of Institutional Sales, Mary Murphy.
Sam Finkelstein, a former Chief Investment Officer of Fixed Income and Liquidity Solutions at Goldman Sachs Asset Management, has joined Citadel as a Senior Portfolio Manager to lead a new development program for its fixed income and macro business, according to a report by Reuters.
Law firm Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld has rehired Ira Kustin, who has experience with both hedge funds and credit funds, as a Partner in its investment management practice in its New York office as part of its expansion into the hedge fund industry.Â
Quant trading firm Vatic Investments, which takes ‘inspiration’ from systematic hedge fund firm Renaissance Technologies, has hired a new team to trade statistical arbitrage strategies using client money, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Global fund administrator Opus has appointed industry veteran James Jackson as Executive Vice President in Halifax, Canada. The appointment follows a number of EVP and SVP level hires in the region as Opus further expands its North American footprint.
Align, a provider of technology infrastructure solutions and managed IT Services, has appointed Vinod Paul, who joined the business in 2017 and previously held the position of Chief Operating Officer, as President of Align Managed Services, effective immediately.
Millennium Management, the $60bn multi-strategy hedge fund major founded by Izzy Englander, has appointed Matthew Nguyen as the firm’s new Deputy Head of Commodities, according to a report by Bloomberg.
Point72 is set to ramp up the quota of quants based at its London office in St James’s Square, having steadily added Portfolio Managers and Analysts in recent months, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
