Neil Chriss

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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