Value HF RPD taps Saba, AQR vet for BD head
Fund up 66% since opening to external capital last year…
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Nine Masts, Nomura vets eye global equity debut
Stanley Huang has teamed up with Yung Wai Sing on Wisdom Cosmic…
Emancipation Capital duo prep equity launch
Cornerstone FTM will run a tech-focused strat
Schonfeld taps GSAM for quant risk head
Sam Shapiro joins from Goldman Sachs…
Ex-Impala managing partner mulls HF launch
Gary Yablon has started initial conversations with service providers…
Crypto Agitator Jesse Powell Steps Down as CEO of Kraken
Jesse Powell, the outspoken and often controversial co-founder of the Kraken cryptocurrency exchange, said he’s stepping down as chief executive officer to spend more time on the company’s products and broader industry advocacy. Powell, 42, who is being succeeded by Chief Operating Officer Dave Ripley, 45…
Top hedge fund technologist who quit for Meta has returned
Meta has been hiring. In 2021, the technology company let it be known that it wanted to hire 10,000 engineers across the European Union alone to work on augmented and virtual reality. One hedge fund technologist who heeded that call has now reappeared at his former employer. Bijan Treister spent over six years at hedge fund Millennium, where he was the New York-based head of infrastructure for WorldQuant until August 2021…
Citadel’s Griffin Brings Billions to Miami With Political Winds at His Back
In a few years and change, if everything goes to plan, Miami will look far different than it does today. There will still be nightclubs, Little Havana, perhaps even the crypto diehards. But alongside them: programmers and portfolio managers filling the streets of Brickell and driving breathtaking profits inside the state-of-the-art, built-from-scratch global headquarters of Citadel and Citadel Securities…