Sector: Hedge funds

Regulatory accountant: How much am I worth?

A panel of headhunters gives its assessment of typical London pay packages: Base: 65,000. Bonus: 25% A few weeks ago, newspapers gleefully revealed that under Chancellor Gordon Brown, Britain’s tax code has doubled in size to over 7,000 pages of dull, closely set text: in eight years Brown – the accountant’s friend – has added [...]

By anonymous, 20 September 2005 • 0 comments

Job wrap: Hiring surge in equity derivatives

There was a rush of equity derivatives hiring last week as Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, Bank of America and ABN Amro added to their teams. Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein hired four people for equity derivatives. Patrick Sciamma joined from Goldman Sachs as a managing director and head of trading in exotic equity derivatives. Olivier Charhon joined from [...]

By anonymous, 19 September 2005 • 0 comments

BlueCrest partners share $50m

Partners in BlueCrest Capital Management, a $6bn (€4.9bn) hedge fund 25% owned by Man Group, shared at least $50m last year. Most of the payout is understood to have been split between Mike Platt and Bill Reeves, who founded the business in 2000 and own 75% of it. The $50m comes on top of 39m [...]

By anonymous, 6 September 2005 • 0 comments

Job Wrap: Hiring spree at Calyon

Calyon, the French investment bank, put paid to notions that the French spend all of August prostrate somewhere on the Côte D’Azur last week. It was the week’s most vigorous hirer, adding four staff members and promoting one more. New recruits included Steve Nutland from Bank of America, who joined as global head of foreign [...]

By anonymous, 5 September 2005 • 0 comments