Point72's head of HR is leaving, following the firm's former president out...
Mike Butler, the head of human resources at Steve Cohen's hedge fund, Point72, is leaving.His departure comes in the wake of a staffer's lawsuit alleging widespread gender discrimination, including...
View ArticleSteve Cohen's hedge fund Point72 has reportedly been blocked from taking...
FT: Steve Cohen's hedge fund Point72 has been blocked by the UK regulator from taking British money.Cohen was banned from managing money for two years after his former hedge fund, SAC Capital, pleaded...
View ArticleOne of Steve Cohen's top quant portfolio managers is starting his own hedge...
Michael Graves, a portfolio manager for Steve Cohen's quant arm, will start his own fund — the third launch of his career.Graves was one of the top portfolio managers for Cubist, Point72's quant arm,...
View ArticleSilicon Valley has made top data-science talent too expensive for many hedge...
Hedge funds have always been able to recruit analysts and traditional stock-picking portfolio managers from investment banks but have run into trouble persuading coders and data scientists to choose...
View ArticleKen Griffin's Citadel is losing a longtime money-manager and the COO of its...
Faron Schonfeld, COO of the Citadel's Global Equities arm, and Brian Conn, a longtime portfolio manager, are both leaving Ken Griffin's firm, sources tell Business Insider.Citadel has wooed several...
View ArticlePOWER PLAYERS: Meet the 8 executives leading the most innovative tech...
Business Insider compiled a list of the people leading the most innovative and ambitious tech projects at Wall Street's biggest firms.We asked Wall Street players and industry insiders who was...
View ArticlePoint72, Renaissance Technologies, and Millennium are betting they can make...
Some of the biggest funds are pumping money, technology, and time into building out credit quant teams, sources tell Business Insider. Firms like Steve Cohen's Point72, Renaissance Technologies, and...
View ArticleHot launches, macro players, and new blood: Here are the 8 hedge funds to...
The hedge funds to watch in 2020 are a mix of big names, newcomers looking to make a splash, and a long-time industry player giving it another shot. Big-name macro managers like Brevan Howard will be...
View ArticleBillionaire hedge fund manager Ken Griffin trounced rival Steve Cohen in 2019...
Ken Griffin's Citadel posted a 19.4% return in 2019, beating out industry rival Steve Cohen's Point72 fund and its 16% gain, Bloomberg reported.Both offices, and the greater hedge fund industry, still...
View ArticleThese are the 5 hedge fund managers who took home more than $1 billion last year
The top 15 hedge fund managers collectively earned $12 billion in 2019, with the top five taking in more than $1 billion each, according to Bloomberg estimates.The hedge fund industry generally...
View ArticleSteve Cohen just told staff that the head of Point72's Cubist unit is leaving...
The head of Point72's Cubist unit, Ross Garon, is retiring and leaving the firm at mid-year, according to a memo from billionaire Steve Cohen sent this morning.Previously, Garon worked at D.E. Shaw,...
View ArticleBillionaire investor Steve Cohen is reportedly raising money for a new fund...
Billionaire investor Steve Cohen is stepping outside the hedge fund industry and creating a private-markets fund, The Wall Street Journal reported Friday.The fund, named Point72 Hyperscale, will act as...
View ArticleHow to pitch Point72, Bridgewater, and other big names on buying new data...
The alternative data industry, which sells the unique datasets used by investors to gain an edge, has seen a boom in recent months due to the coronavirus pandemic.Business Insider profiled seven...
View ArticleThe co-investing chief of SkyBridge explains how he finds opportunities in...
Summary List PlacementTroy Gayeski believes that 99% of life is luck. "People don't like to admit that but where you're born, which century you're born in, or whether you grow up in places where you...
View ArticleAnthony Scaramucci told us his contrarian views on the risks investors face...
Summary List Placement For someone who worked at the White House, albeit just for 11 days, Anthony Scaramucci has a surprisingly contrarian view about election-related market risks. "I think it's sort...
View ArticleThe firms of billionaire investors Steve Cohen and Ken Griffin pour $2.8...
Summary List PlacementSteve Cohen's Point72 and Ken Griffin's Citadel are investing $2.75 billion in Melvin Capital.Melvin is down about 30% this year as its short positions are getting hammered.Day...
View ArticleKirk McKeown is leaving Steve Cohen's Point72, the 2nd recent senior data...
Summary List PlacementAnother top data executive is out at Point72. Kirk McKeown, who led proprietary research at the hedge fund, has left the firm, according to people familiar with the matter and an...
View ArticleInside the network of dozens of spin-off hedge funds from billionaire New...
Summary List PlacementSteve Cohen's decades-long career in finance has made him billions of dollars across two different hedge funds and led to the creation of more than 80 other firms.Dozens of people...
View ArticleBillionaire Steve Cohen's Point72 is hunting for a crypto chief after saying...
Summary List PlacementSteve Cohen's Point72 Asset Management is looking to hire a head for its cryptocurrency division, joining the growing number of funds and legacy institutions entering the...
View Article20 hedge-fund dealmakers who are beating VCs at their own game by pumping...
Summary List PlacementIt's easy for investors to take big bets on companies like Google and Facebook. It's much more challenging to find the fledgling startup that is set to become the next industry...
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