Investors & Traders · Macro & trading
Ken Griffin
From a satellite dish on a Harvard dorm roof to Citadel and Citadel Securities: convertible arbitrage, surviving 2008, multi-strategy pods, market making at scale and the record $16B gain of 2022.
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Key idea
Prereqs: Hedge funds; Market making. Next: Jim Simons; Two Sigma & D.E. Shaw. Sources: Citadel public materials; Bloomberg and FT reporting; LCH Investments ranking of manager gains (2023).Next: 1. Two businesses