BAM was founded by Rebecca's husband, Dmitry Balyasny (Rebecca herself has made a career in finance over the past 20 years, working for top tier financial firms and now investing personally in private asset classes). Griffin's flagship Wellington fund returned more than 9% last year while Balyasny finished down 7%. Rahul Bajaj joined BAM in 2004 and serves as Global Head of Trading. Brooke joined MFA from Highbridge Capital Management, and prior to that she was a Vice President in JPMorgans investment bank. Matt oversees BAM's relationship with its Advisory Council. A global footprint from humble roots. Datasets of all fund registered investment advisors were obtained from the SECs public database. Balyasny Asset Management is an American hedge fund headquartered in Chicago. Im just absolutely so pleased with what they are delivering for us, he says. [57] For private equity, we used the Cambridge Associates U.S. Scott Schroeder is a Co-Founding Partner at BAM and heads Business Development, the Client Relationship Group and the legal and regulatory aspects of the firm. Sebastiaan joined BAM in November 2017 from Citadel Investment Group in London. Canadas prime minister said he sees strong signs of economic turmoil ahead, but uncertainty about how severe a downturn could be. He holds a JD/MBA from Marquette University, where he also completed his undergraduate degree in business administration with an emphasis in finance and accounting. Griffin's firm also outbid Balyasny to retain fixed-income portfolio manager Nilsson Kocher this year after he had signed on to join Citadel's cross-town competitor, and recently hired away Justin Dodd, who had been a portfolio manager for Balyasny since 2013. Since then, hes rehired, and then some: He now employs 1,100 people, including 470 investment professionals. Carson joined BAM as a Director of Quantitative Research in 2016, building and overseeing a research team which created systematic strategies for the firm's discretionary Long/Short investors. The job provided the ultimate eat-what-you-kill training: Traders were provided with a little bit of capital and lunch every day, but no base salary. Gustav joined BAM in 2014 as Managing Director of Performance Analytics. And we didnt have analyst infrastructure to support PMs who needed idea velocity to support a $12 billion asset base.. The philosophy was the same: We wanted to generate uncorrelated returns through lots of P&L streams, says Balyasny. Brooke has been recognized as one of the 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds and serves on the Global Advisory Board of Girls Who Invest. Brooke sits on the firms Management Committee and is based in our New York office. Through a land trust, Balasny Asset Management principal Dmitry Balyasny and his then-wife, Elona, bought the three-story mansion from Burns and Watts in 2011. Hedge fund billionaires have taken care of themselves by taking care of top leadership there. Gustav was class valedictorian at North Carolina State University, where he earned dual Bachelor of Science degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering. Now, its three to five analysts per portfolio manager. States with a lot of hedge fund and private equity managers can raise hundreds of millions or billions of dollars and all states can raise something, merely by imposing tax fairness on an out-of-control loophole. The Curious Case of Dmitry Balyasny | Elite Trader But a recent investor letter from Balyasny states that they have re-built its investment teams with 10 new portfolio managers and 39 analysts since the start of the year, including six new portfolio managers from Citadel, such as Elliot Wilson, Johnny Bubb, Chris Adams, and Peter Gong.