Alan Howard (hedge fund manager)
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Alan Howard is the co-founder of Brevan Howard
Asset Management LLP, a hedge fund
with more than $26 billion under management. The group's master fund returned 20.4 percent in 2008 and 18 percent in 2009, according to the Financial Times. A graduate of Imperial College London
, he began his financial career at Salomon Brothers
.
In 2010 he announced that he was moving to the Geneva office.
Brevan Howard
Brevan Howard Asset Management a British-based hedge fund manager that is the largest in Europe. The fund, co-founded by Alan Howard and Jean-Philippe Blochet in 2002, has more than $26 billion under management. Blochet left the firm in November 2009. The group's master fund returned 20.4 percent...
Asset Management LLP, a hedge fund
Hedge fund
A hedge fund is a private pool of capital actively managed by an investment adviser. Hedge funds are only open for investment to a limited number of accredited or qualified investors who meet criteria set by regulators. These investors can be institutions, such as pension funds, university...
with more than $26 billion under management. The group's master fund returned 20.4 percent in 2008 and 18 percent in 2009, according to the Financial Times. A graduate of Imperial College London
Imperial College London
Imperial College London is a public research university located in London, United Kingdom, specialising in science, engineering, business and medicine...
, he began his financial career at Salomon Brothers
Salomon Brothers
Salomon Brothers was a bulge bracket, Wall Street investment bank. Founded in 1910 by three brothers along with a clerk named Ben Levy, it remained a partnership until the early 1980s, when it was acquired by the commodity trading firm Phibro Corporation and then became Salomon Inc. Eventually...
.
In 2010 he announced that he was moving to the Geneva office.
External links
- "Brevan Howard Shows Paranoid Survive in Hedge Fund of Time Outs," Bloomberg, March 2009