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Neil Chriss
Not only has Neil Chriss written two books, started his own brokerage firm, the 42-year-old in 2007 launched his own hedge fund. Hutchin Hill Capital got off the ground with $300 million from James Simons, through his Renaissance Technologies Corp.’s family office. 2010 Hedge Fund Rising Stars.
Not only has Neil Chriss written two books, started his own brokerage firm and done enough to warrant a lengthy Wikipedia entry, the 42-year-old in 2007 launched his own hedge fund. Hutchin Hill Capital got off the ground with $300 million from math whiz James Simons, through his Renaissance Technologies Corp.’s family office.
Manager Simons has reason to be impressed with Chriss’s hedge fund résumé — he spent two years at Goldman Sachs Asset Management as part of the quantitative strategies group and later spent four years overseeing a quantitative trading business for SAC Capital.
With Hutchin Hill, Chriss, who has a math Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and has taught math at Harvard, focuses on credit, equity, quantitative and macro strategies. Opened to outside investors this year, the 48-person, New York firm has nearly $500 million under management.
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