In this week’s hedge fund hiring report, we look at recent additions made by hedge fund industry heavy weights JANA Partners LLC, SAC Capital Management, Och-Ziff Capital Management, and BlueMountain Capital Management. Jana Partners and SAC Capital added to their investment teams, while Och-Ziff and BlueMountain deepened their investor relations and sales capabilities.
San Francisco-based JANA Partners, which manages approximately $1.4 billion in equity assets, has brought on Gian M. Kull as a Managing Director in its New York office. Prior to joining the hedge fund manager, Mr. Kull was a sell-side research analyst at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he covered banks and brokerage houses. Before joining Merrill, he researched high yield bank loans and private placements at AllianceBernstein. JANA Partners is an event-driven focused manager that was founded in 2001 by Managing Directors Barry S. Rosenstein and Gary Claar.
Steven A. Cohen’s hedge fund, SAC Capital Advisors, has also hired a former member of Merrill Lynch’s sell-side research team. SAC Capital added Lori Helwing last month as a US Economist. While at Merrill, Ms. Helwing was a US Economist on the bank’s Global Economic Research team. Before Merrill, she spent over seven years at Wellington Management Company in similar roles.
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