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Gabe Plotkin's Melvin Capital, which came under siege from Wall Street Bets,...
Summary List PlacementIn March, Gabe Plotkin's Melvin Capital took a step back from digging itself out of its GameStop hole.The $8 billion equity hedge fund lost 7% last month, finishing the first...
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Billionaire Lee Ainslie's Maverick Capital soared in March despite the...
Summary List PlacementAfter the Reddit-fueled GameStop saga that ensnared funds such as Melvin Capital and D1 Capital, Maverick Capital's founder, Lee Ainslie, told investors that his $9 billion fund...
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Nomura to tighten financing for hedge fund clients in the wake of Archegos...
Summary List PlacementNomura is reportedly tightening financing for some of its hedge fund clients in the wake of the $20 billion collapse of Archegos Capital.Japan's largest brokerage is facing an...
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Nomura to tighten financing for hedge fund clients in the wake of Archegos...
Summary List PlacementNomura is reportedly tightening financing for some of its hedge fund clients in the wake of the $20 billion collapse of Archegos Capital.Japan's largest brokerage is facing an...
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Brevan Howard hires ex-Point72 CTO Singh as it ramps up its 'Alpha...
Summary List PlacementBrevan Howard has hired a chief technology officer for one of its largest strategies as the $13 billion hedge fund ramps up hiring amid a streak of strong returns. Gurpreet Singh,...
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Carlson Capital is losing its chief risk officer and top lawyer as exits...
Summary List PlacementThe exodus at Clint Carlson's eponymous hedge-fund manager continues.The $4.8 billion Dallas-based firm has lost several top executives recently including chief legal officer Joe...
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David Einhorn calls out Elon Musk and Chamath Palihapitiya, defends GameStop...
Summary List PlacementDavid Einhorn accused regulators of failing to protect investors.The Greenlight Capital chief defended the GameStop investor Keith Gill.Elon Musk and Chamath Palihapitiya...
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Hedge funds have dumped over $100 billion in Treasurys this year,...
Summary List PlacementHedge funds have played an instrumental role in this year's rout in the US bond market by selling off more than $100 billion in Treasurys, according to a Bloomberg report....
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Must-know promotions, exits, and hires at firms like Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan...
Summary List PlacementHere's a rundown of news on hires, exits, and promotions from the past week. Are we missing anyone? Let us know.Michael Daffey, who until March 31 was the head ofGoldman Sachs'...
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The talent brokers of quant trading: The headhunters at the forefront of Wall...
Summary List Placement2020 was a tough year for quant hedge funds. The performance of giants like Bridgewater, Renaissance Technologies, and Two Sigma sagged amid the coronavirus-fueled market mayhem,...
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Inside the secretive world of Wall Street quant recruiting
Summary List Placement"You're OK that I've recorded this call, right?" So said one veteran recruiter who works with proprietary-trading firms before apologizing for his paranoia at the end of a 30...
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A new hedge fund, David Tepper-backed CastleKnight Management, has crushed...
Summary List PlacementCastleKnight Management hasn't wasted any time since it began trading last October. In six months, the David Tepper-backed firm has surged 63.2%, a source familiar with the firm...
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Tudor Investment CTO Miriam Roiter is retiring after 25 years building...
Summary List PlacementTudor Investment Corporation's chief technology officer is retiring after 25 years at the firm. Miriam Roiter, the CTO at the hedge fund since 2016 and a member of Tudor's...
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A major hedge fund warns of the 'awful returns' generated by SPACs — and says...
Summary List PlacementThe co-founder of London-based hedge fund Marshall Wace is sounding the alarm over blank-check companies, which he said have delivered "awful returns,"Bloomberg reported. The...
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A major hedge fund warns of the 'awful returns' generated by SPACs — and says...
Summary List PlacementThe co-founder of London-based hedge fund Marshall Wace is sounding the alarm over blank-check companies, which he said have delivered "awful returns,"Bloomberg reported. The...
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AQR has lost more than a third of its assets since the end of 2017, but Cliff...
Summary List PlacementQuants had a tough 2020, but Cliff Asness' AQR has been struggling longer than that owing to a long drought for its value-focused strategies. But a person close to the firm said...
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Two Sigma is applying data-driven investing to real estate with a new...
Summary List PlacementTwo Sigma's expansion into the private markets has added another arm.Two Sigma Real Estate is the $58 billion quant giant's newest unit and will be led by Tom Hill, the former...
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These are the headhunters leading Wall Street's systematic-trading and...
Summary List PlacementThe market for quant and data-science specialists has perhaps never been hotter. And the technologists, researchers, scientists, and traders developing cutting-edge investment...
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Systematic trading firm Vatic is launching a new quant strategy, and it's...
Summary List PlacementHigh-speed quant trading firm Vatic Investments is launching a statistical arbitrage effort, and it has hired a former finance professor who worked at Citadel and D.E. Shaw to...
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$21 billion hedge fund D1 Capital has been on a private investing spree. Here...
Summary List PlacementHedge fund D1 Capital Partners, run by billionaire Dan Sundheim, is continuing to ramp up its private market bets — having invested in at least 24 private companies in 2021 so...
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