Hedge Fund Firm DE Shaw Secures Investment from Google’s Eric Schmidt
DE Shaw, the big quantitative hedge fund firm founded by billionaire David Shaw, secured investment from Google’s billionaire chairman Eric Schmidt.
Schmidt’s
family office, Hillspire LLC, scooped up the stake from the estate of
Lehman Brothers, which purchased the stake for some $750 million before
the investment bank failed in 2008, helping to spark the financial
crisis. The Lehman Brothers estate had been trying to sell the stake for
a while, but the passive nature of the stake and the maturity of DE
Shaw made it a bit of a tough sell. The financial terms of Schmidt’s
purchase were not disclosed in the announcement of the deal.
DE
Shaw, which was founded in 1988, manages $36 billion. The firm’s funds
have posted blended returns of 8.4% this year through the end of March.
David Shaw no longer is involved in the day-to-day operations of the
firm, but does play a role in its strategic direction. He spends most of
his time as chief scientist at DE Shaw Research, which conducts
computational biochemistry research.
Source: Forbes
