Point72 Asset Management, the $27.2bn hedge fund firm founded by Steve Cohen, has continued its recent hiring spree with the addition of portfolio managers in both New York and London, according to a report by eFinancial Careers.
Siddharth Mehla joined the fund’s New York office this month having spent the previous 17 years at Barclays, most recently as an options trader. Mehla, a graduate of the Indian Institution of Technology, was part of Barclays 2019 class of managing directors.
Neil Tanna, meanwhile, joined Point72 earlier this month in London from Balyasny, where he was an associate portfolio manager focused on global macro. He spent eight years with Balyasny, having joined the firm from Morgan Stanley’s options trading desk, where he specialised in foreign exchange.
