The 2015 Hedge Fund Rising Stars: Anastasia Titarchuk

The New York State Common Retirement Fund deputy CIO posted impressive returns as head of the pension plan’s hedge fund team.

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Talk about climbing the ladder. In February Anastasia Titarchuk was promoted to deputy CIO of the $183.5 billion New York State Common Retirement Fund. Previously serving as director of absolute-return strategies, she helmed the pension’s $6 billion hedge fund portfolio. Titarchuk graduated from Yale University in 1999 with a BS in applied mathematics and landed her first Wall Street gig that year with JPMorgan Chase & Co.’s emerging-markets capital markets department. Over the next seven years she tried her hand at short-term interest rate trading and equity derivatives marketing, always with a focus on institutional clients. In 2006 she left Chase for a job at Lehman Brothers Holdings overseeing a sales team built around volatility as an asset class and marketing global equity and derivative products internationally. Titarchuk braved the 2008–’09 financial meltdown that felled the investment banking giant and brought her department under the ownership of Barclays Capital. Leaving Barclays in 2009, she became a director of international derivatives sales for Bank of America Corp., where she stayed until 2010 before joining New York Common’s hedge fund team as a senior investment officer in 2011. Titarchuk took the reins of the hedge fund team in 2013, and under her guidance the absolute-return portfolio gained 9.8 percent during the 2013–’14 fiscal year, beating its benchmark by 423 basis points. As of last March the portfolio, which has sizeable mandates with Brevan Howard Asset Management, D.E. Shaw & Co., Och-Ziff Capital Management Group and Viking Global Investors, had 50 partnerships with hedge funds and funds of funds spanning a range of strategies, including long-short, macro, event-driven and structured credit. Hedge funds at New York Common generated a 5.9 percent return for the 2014–’15 fiscal year ended in March.


The 2015 Hedge Fund Rising Stars

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Paul Alzapiedi
Silver Point Capital

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Adam Bernstein
Pagoda Asset Management

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Jennifer Bloom
BTIG

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Robert Campion
Canyon Capital Advisors

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Katherine Chan
Anandar Capital Management

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T. Troy Dixon
Hollis Park Partners

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Curtis Gallagher
Park Hill Group

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Brian Goldberg
Aksia

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Geoffrey Keegan
Creciente Partners Investment Management

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Brian Kelly
Millennium partners

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Robert Kennelley
Rocaton Investment Advisors

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Ryan Kilstein
Southpoint capital advisors

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Monica Lai
Pfizer

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Leigh Lower
Graham Capital Management

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Pooja Malik
Nipun Capital

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Jamie Mendola
Pacific Grove Capital

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Bradley Neumeister
Pershing

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Oleg Nodelman
EcoR1 Capital

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James Oussedik
Sidley Austin

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Amit Pardasani
Owl Creek Asset Management

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Putri Pascualy
PAAMCO

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Courtney Powers
University of texas Investment Management Co.

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Laura Roche
Roystone Capital Management

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Harlan Saroken
Perry Capital

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Richard Scarinci
Blackstone Group

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Randall Shu
MetLife

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Samuel Siegal
Senator Investment Group

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Nadine Terman
solstein Capital

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Anastasia Titarchuk
New York State Common Retirement Fund

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Christina van Beelen
Secor Asset Management


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