Korea’s Wealth Fund Doubling Staff to Pick Buffett-Style Stocks. Korea Investment Corp., the country’s $76 billion sovereign wealth fund, plans to almost double its research staff to pick stocks for two new funds that may eventually comprise 30 percent of […]
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Korea Investment Corp. Plans to Increase Staff from 32 to 60
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BNP Proprietary Trader Fourcade Joins Caxton Associates
Caxton Associates LP, the hedge fund firm co-founded by billionaire Bruce Kovner, hired Philippe Fourcade, a former proprietary trader at BNP Paribas SA. (BNP) Fourcade started at the firm’s London office on Sept. 22, the Financial Conduct Authority register shows. […]
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Afota Joins Abu Dhabi Investment Authority as Senior Fund Manager
Credit hedge funds specialist hired. Virginie Afota has joined the Abu Dhabi Investment Authority as a senior fund manager in its fixed income and …
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Wang Leaves Samena Capital
Industry veteran Julius Wang in Hong Kong has left Samena Capital for what looks like a more flexible working life focusing on special situations as well as advising family offices on investments. Earlier in his career, Julius was at Vision […]
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BlueCrest Capital Lays Off U.S. Traders
BlueCrest Capital Management LLP, one of Europe’s largest hedge-fund firms, laid off several stock traders in the U.S. Thursday and began liquidating their investments, according to people familiar with the matter, not long after it aggressively expanded into equities. Four […]
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Braga Leaving BlueCrest Capital to Start Systematic Investments
The departure of the second-biggest money manager from billionaire Michael Platt’s BlueCrest Capital Management LLP is another sign of upheaval for the $27.1 billion firm. BlueCrest, which thrived after the 2008 financial crisis to grow into Europe’s third-biggest hedge-fund firm, said yesterday that Leda […]
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Adshead and Bower Leave Verno Capital
Verno Capital LLC’s Tom Adshead left the Russian hedge fund, according to two people familiar with his departure, just months after another fund manager, Bruce Bower, quit the firm. Adshead, who joined as equity portfolio manager a year ago after working at […]
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Spring and Horowitz Join Quad Group
Quad Group has hired a pair of top executives, one formerly of Clinton Group, the other from Banyan Capital. David Spring, who joins as chief operating officer of Quad Group, has served as COO for Clinton Group and Meadowood Capital…
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Hubbard Joins UBS O’Connor as Portfolio Manager
UBS O’Connor LLC, the $6 billion hedge-fund unit within Switzerland’s biggest bank, hired Andrew Hubbard from Credit Suisse Group AG as a portfolio manager for quantitative credit. Hubbard, 41, started today and reports to Casey Talbot, global head of fixed-income […]
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Smalley Joins Chenvari as Senior Market Risk Manager
Edward Smalley joins $5.4bn firm as a senior market risk manager…
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Newman Joins GK Plus Alpha as Analyst
Neil Newman has joined GaveKal’s GK Plus Alpha team as an analyst. Newman has had a long career in financial services at firms such as Senrigan, MF Global, BTIG, Oppenheimer, Mirabaud, Louis Capital Markets, Mizuho and many more…
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Lekander Leaves Norges Bank to Launch Hedge Fund at Lansdowne Partners
Lansdowne Partners is to launch an energy-focused hedge fund, having recruited a portfolio manager from Norges Bank Investment Management to build a team, according to a person familiar with the hire. The decision to launch an energy-focused hedge fund comes […]
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Myers Joins Palisade Capital Management as Managing Director
Ex-CFO/CCO of Nine Chapters Capital Management joins New Jersey firm…
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HFObserver Talent Exclusive: Notable Hedge Fund Hires, September 2014
On the investment professional hiring front, Caxton Associates continued to deepen its investment bench, adding portfolio manager Evan Flecker to its NYC team. Flecker joined from Soros Fund Management where he was an analyst and had worked at Kingdon Capital […]
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Head of Alternative Investments at Rasini Fairway Capital Joins JP Morgan
Karim Leguel joins as newly-created head of EMEA Client Strategy…
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Miller Joins Halcyon Asset Management
Benros Capital co-founder Daniele Benatoff is quickly rising through the ranks at Halcyon Asset Management. The former Goldman Sachs proprietary trader, who joined Halcyon in May, has been named co-head of Halcyon Asset Management (UK), alongside Damien Miller…
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Nardulli Leaves Cheyne Capital to Join Dexion Capital
Max Nardulli has joined Dexion Capital, the alternatives investment bank, as head of international sales. He will be responsible for Dexion Capital’s growing distribution strategy and investor network across a number of different regions globally…
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Andreassen Leaves Bell Rock Capital to Join Balyasny Asset Management
Bell Rock Capital PM Torbjorn Andreassen joins $6.65bn firm’s London office…
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Zhao Joins Brandywine Global Investment Management as Co-Director of Global Macro Research
Brandywine Global Investment Management, LLC (“Brandywine Global”) today announced that Chen Zhao will join the firm as the Co-Director of Global Macro Research as of January 1, 2015, and will serve alongside his former colleague, Francis Scotland. Messrs. Chen and Scotland […]
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Inoue Leaves Falcon Edge Capital to Join Myriad Asset Management
Toshiki Inoue has joined Myriad Asset Management in Hong Kong as an equity analyst to cover global TMT and retail, with a primary focus on Japan. Prior to Myriad, Toshiki was a research analyst at Falcon Edge Capital and CLSA…
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