Leda Braga, the Number One Woman in Hedge Funds
BlueCrest Capital Management’s president Leda Braga is the most powerful woman in hedge funds, according to an article released by CNBC, an American basic cable and satellite business news television channel.
The hedge fund industry has two new massive independent money managers to start 2015.
Leda
Braga formally started Systematica Investments this month after years
under prominent European hedge fund firm BlueCrest Capital Management.
Geneva-based Braga manages the same amount she ran at BlueCrest, $8.5
billion, easily making her the most powerful female hedge fund manager
in the world in charge of her own shop.
David
Warren also completed his transition out of Brevan Howard Asset
Management, another European hedge fund giant. Warren's newly
independent firm, New York-based DW Partners, starts with more than $6
billion in assets.
As
stand-alone firms, Systematica and DW instantly rank among the top 100
hedge fund managers by assets. By comparison, Bill Ackman's Pershing
Square Capital Management runs $18.3 billion, Dan Loeb's Third Point
manages $16.5 billion and Larry Robbins' Glenview Capital Management
controlled about $10 billion as of late last year.
Source: CNBC