Meet the team behind Ning Jin's Avantyr Capital, the $1 billion spin-out from Viking Global

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Ning Jin worked at Andreas Halvorsen's Viking Global for 17 years.

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A top Goldman prime broker lays out why it's getting easier to launch a hedge fund

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NASA's space shuttle Challenger launches from Cape Canaveral, Florida, on January 28, 1986, disturbing nearby flocks of birds.

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What a 24-year-old analyst learned in his first year at $25 billion Balyasny

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Francesco Catanzariti, an analyst on Balyasny's macro trading team.
Francesco Catanzariti, an analyst on Balyasny's macro trading team in New York.

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The guy who shorted Enron has a warning about the AI boom

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Chanos & Co. Founder and Managing Partner Jim Chanos speaks at the 2025 Sohn Investment Conference, in New York.
Chanos & Co. Founder and Managing Partner Jim Chanos speaks at the 2025 Sohn Investment Conference, in New York.

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I quit my finance job and built a cereal brand from my kitchen. Now we're sold in grocery stores across the country.

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Krishna Kaliannan smiles as he holds a pack of Catalina Crunch

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The latest Millennium spin-out is a new credit hedge fund seeded by a $6 billion backer

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A rocket launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Denise Rich and her family can see the rockets launch from her new backyard.

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Quant pioneer Renaissance Technologies' painful summer continued in July

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Jim Simons at a gala in March 2019.

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Do you work in finance? Tell us how your career has shaped your dating life.

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Finding the time to date can be tough when you work on Wall Street

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A rising star commodities trader is out at Jain Global

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Russia is a major exporter of commodities including oil and gas.
Russia is a major exporter of commodities including oil and gas.

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Quant hedge funds clawed back some July losses after a brutal summer

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FILE - In this Aug. 12, 2019, photo specialist Peter Mazza works at his post on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange. Stocks of companies that do lots of business with China are obvious targets to sell when trade worries rise, and they’ve lagged sharply behind the rest of the market whenever President Donald Trump sends out a tariff tweet.
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