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New Managers August 2016

BULLETIN: Hires, closure, mandate

 

Castle Hook hires CFO, head trader

Castle Hook Partners hired Sean Rhatigan as its chief financial officer, and he started in early August, according to Business Insider . Rhatigan worked at Och-Ziff Capital for 16 years and left in December as its executive managing director responsible for accounting and operations. Mike Hamill also joined as head trader from Mason Capital.

Castle Hook was recently founded by David Rogers and Joshua Donfeld, who left their jobs as money managers at Soros Fund Management in May, reportedly over disagreements with Soros' new CIO about the direction of global markets. They have an investment from Stan Druckenmiller, who trained Rogers at his former hedge fund Duquesne Capital Management. Anandar closes shop after two years

Anandar Capital Management, the hedge fund started by former Magnetar money managers Min Htoo and Jordan Teramo, is returning money to investors, according to a letter obtained by Bloomberg . The liquidation of the New Yorkbased firm is due to a disagreement between the partners.

Htoo and Teramo started the event driven hedge fund in 2014 as investor demand for the strategy helped push industry assets to a record level. Since inception, the main fund had lost less than 6% and had gathered about $530m in assets. Mandate

Carlos Cabrera who works within the ADMIS infrastructure has a family office mandate to find emerging systemati......................

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