New Managers February 2016

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Satu Parikh and Marco Barrozo, former senior managers of Harvard University's endowment, plan to start a hedge fund to exploit pricing inefficiencies in commodities and fixed-income markets, reports Bloomberg. HSQ Capital joins a community of hedge funds in Boston whose roots trace to Harvard's endowment.

Short-seller Carson Block, founder of research firm Muddy Waters LLC who exposed accounting problems and wrongdoing at a slew of Chinese companies, has launched a hedge fund investment firm, reports Reuters. Block's new company, Muddy Waters Capital LLC, combines activism with long-short strategies but with an emphasis on betting against companies. Block received an initial investment of $100m.

Pershing Square Capital partner Paul Hilalis leaving the activist hedge fund to launch his own venture, reports Business Insider. Hilal has been with Pershing Square since January 2006. Ackman said the two had discussed Hilal's transitioning to his own venture about two years ago.

Samantha Greenberg, a partner at $16.2 billion Paulson & Co., left to launch her own hedge fund firm, according to FA-mag. Greenberg's new venture will use a long-short equity investment strategy. She was named to the Hedge Fund Journal and Ernst & Young's 50 Leading Women in Hedge Funds for 2013. Another partner at Paulson, Dan Kamensky, left last year to launch his own firm.

Ex-CQS Asset Management portfolio manager Will Smith and ex-BlueGold Capital partner Jean-Louis Le Mee are teaming up to launch a hedge fund firm called ......................

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