Sateesh Leaves Barclays to Join Hutchin Hill Capital
Hutchin Hill Capital LP, the $1.4 billion hedge-fund firm founded by Neil Chriss, hired Santosh Sateesh from Barclays Plc to trade options tied to credit derivative indexes. Sateesh will start next...
View ArticleHFObserver Talent Exclusive: HR/Recruiting Moves, 2014
In February, multistrategy hedge fund Visium Asset Management hired Alix Connors as a recruiter for its NYC headquarters. Connors joins the $5.5 billion fund from web-based search firm OneWire, where...
View ArticleCoombs Joins MKP Capital as Director of Client Development
Mark Coombs, who recently resigned as head of hedge fund selection at BT Pension Scheme Management (BTPSM), has taken up a new role at MKP Capital, HFMWeek can confirm…
View ArticleGeber Leaves Man Group to Launch Alternative Mutual Fund at Neuberger Berman
A senior portfolio manager at one of largest hedge funds in the world has decamped to Neuberger Berman to help expand the asset manager’s growing lineup of alternative mutual funds. Daniel Geber joined...
View ArticleYounger Leaves SAC Capital to Join BlueCrest Capital
Portfolio manager Brian Younger resigned from SAC Capital Advisors LP Monday to join rival BlueCrest Capital Management LLP, according to people with knowledge of the matter. Mr. Younger is the latest...
View ArticleHanna Leaves Fortress Investment Group to Join Roubini Global Economics
Roubini Global Economics (RGE) announced today the hiring of Donald Hanna as Managing Director, Asia. This marks a significant step forward for RGE’s Asia research team, which will now be led by Hanna...
View ArticleKaufman Joins Guggenheim Partners as Managing Director
Marjorie Kaufman was named managing director and head of marketing and client services for Guggenheim Partners subsidiary Guggenheim Global Trading, according to spokesman Thomas Mulligan. The position...
View ArticlePeatling Replacing Sherlock as COO of CF Partners
Chris Sherlock heads for exit as Lance Peatling prepares to join London-based energy firm…
View ArticleHeisler Joins TwinFocus Capital Partners as Director of Investment Strategy
Hedge fund advisory firm TwinFocus Capital Partners announced Thursday that Jeffrey Heisler has joined the firm as director of investment strategy. The Boston-based firm said in the statement that in...
View ArticleSmith Joins Gottex Brokers Alternatives’ New York Office
Swiss secondary market specialist hires UBP Asset Management’s Michael Smith…
View ArticleFormer SAC Re Chairman LeStrange to Join Pine River Re
Former Edurance CEO Ken LeStrange is reportedly set to take the role of chairman at new hedge fund-backed reinsurer Pine River Re. The move, reported by The Insurance Insider citing unnamed sources,...
View ArticleSEC Senior Enforcement Attorney Edwards Joins Goldin Associates
Goldin Associates is pleased to announce that William Edwards, an expert on a range of investment-fund issues, including valuation, governance, trading practices and risk management, has joined the...
View ArticleBurnside Joins Finisterre Capital as Head of Business Development
David Burnside joins emerging market firm after spells at BlueBay, FRM and Goldman Sachs…
View ArticleHeung-Sik Named CIO of Korea Investment Corp.
The Korean sovereign wealth fund has appointed one of the country’s central bankers to take over the role of CIO from Lee Dong-ik, who resigned in January. Choo Heung-Sik has been placed in charge of...
View ArticleTer Haar Leaves Lucidus Capital to Join Millennium Management
Millennium Management has hired a former portfolio manager at Lucidus Capital Partners, as Izzy Englander’s $21.8 billion hedge fund continues to scoop up talent in a tough environment for managers to...
View ArticlePorter-Lynch Joins bfinance as Director of Investment Advisory
Emily Porter-Lynch named as a director at London-headquartered consultancy…
View ArticleManaging Director Weinstein to Leave BlackRock in June
Brian Weinstein, managing director and head of the multisector institutional business within fixed income at BlackRock (BLK), will leave the firm at the end of June, confirmed spokesman Brian Beades in...
View ArticleOkumura Resigns from Itaú Unibanco Holding SA’s Proprietary Trading Desk
Fabio Okumura, a senior trader at Itaú Unibanco Holding SA’s proprietary trading desk, resigned on Tuesday [March 11], taking with him an unspecified number of members of his team, two sources familiar...
View ArticleBaupost Group Vet Nathan Joins State Department
Secretary of State John F. Kerry has hired Boston hedge fund executive Scott Nathan as a liaison to the business community, assisting American companies that want to do business abroad and foreign...
View ArticleHall Joins Harvard Management Company as Managing Director of Private Equity
Richard Hall was named managing director of private equity at Harvard Management Co., said company spokesman Kevin Galvin. Mr. Hall replaces Lane MacDonald, who left the company after two months on the...
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