By Hedge Fund Insight staff Recent analysis of EM hedge fund staff registered with the UK’s financial regulator, the FCA, shows some clear winners. Staff are a lagging indicator not a leading indicator, reflecting confidence of management of a hedge fund firm that things have gone well enough that the firm can afford to add […] Read more »
Brevan Howard – Graphic of the Day – AUM v Regulated Staff
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Meaningful Work and Relationships: A Conversation with Ray Dalio
From Milken Institute: Ray Dalio in discussion with Robert Kegan of Harvard Graduate School of Education (59 minutes in total) A radical approach to people development: Radical truth (including mistakes and weaknesses) and radical transparency (tape everything, make the tapes available to everyone). A meritocratic approach. Millennials would find Bridgewater a perfect place to work […] Read more »
Bridgewater’s Leadership In Building Firm Culture & Commitment To Training
By Simon Kerr, Publisher of Hedge Fund Insight Increasingly, large hedge fund groups have to be structured in how they address staffing issues. Nearly a year ago Citi Prime Finance commissioned research for a paper titled “Exploring the Concept and Characteristics of People Alpha” – the result of having surveyed 24 large and medium-sized […] Read more »
Millennium’s Persistent Growth Makes it the Daddy of American Managers in London
By Hedge Fund Insight staff For many years Louis Bacon’s Moore Capital had the largest London operation of any American hedge fund, whether measured by assets under advisement or staff. That Bacon himself was often based in the English capital just reinforced the significance of the European footprint of the firm. But Moore Capital is […] Read more »
Millennium Capital Leads the Large US Managers in Europe
One of the consequences of the Credit Crunch of 2008/9 was a scaling back by hedge fund managers – they cut their gross, they restricted redemptions, and, in managing their companies through a traumatic period for the industry, the larger managers often reduced headcount or closed their offices in Asia and London. When there were […] Read more »
Through the Lag – Europe’s Leading Hedge Funds Add Investment Staff
>One of the ways of looking at the health of a hedge fund business is in staffing levels. Like many other businesses in finance hedge funds cut back on headcount in late 2008 and into 2009, and the cutbacks in London based hedge funds continued into 2010 (see this article for data on last year). […] Read more »