Leda Braga, who manages the biggest hedge fund run by a woman, produced one of the highest returns in January after her main fund, the $8.4bn BlueTrend, generated 9.5%.

Braga’s Systematica Investments, which manages BlueTrend, a future trading fund, and BlueMatrix, a $600m equity trading fund, only started trading only a month ago, reported Swissinfo.ch.

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