Permal Group
Javier Dyer began trading high-yield and emerging-markets debt after going to work for Atlantic Security Bank in Miami in 1999, shortly after the native Peruvian earned his undergraduate degree in business from the Universidad de Lima. His boss ran a small fund of hedge funds, and Dyer would occasionally meet with hedge fund managers while at the bank. In 2003, Dyer left to get an MBA in finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he interned at a merger-arbitrage fund run by New York–based hedge fund firm Tiedemann Investment Group. That experience helped him land a job at New York–based Permal Group, a $20 billion alternative-investment manager that liked Dyer’s credit background and appointed him to head the firm’s flagship fixed-income-focused fund of hedge funds. Dyer, 38, has grown the business from $900 million in assets to about $4.5 billion and is now deputy chief investment officer for the overall fund-of-hedge-funds business.
| Hedge Fund Rising Stars | ||||||
| NAME | FIRM | |||||
| Rick Gerson | Falcon Edge Capital | |||||
| David Ben-Ur | Caxton Alternative Management LP | |||||
| Atwood ''Porter'' Collins | Seawolf Capital | |||||
| Adam Fisher | Commonwealth Opportunity Capital | |||||
| Grace Gu | BlackRock | |||||
| Jason Karp | Carlson Capital | |||||
| Akiva Katz | Bow Street | |||||
| Laurie Katz | GoldenTree Asset Management | |||||
| Ingrid Kiefer | Canyon Partners | |||||
| Simon Krinsky | Hall Capital Partners | |||||
| Carrie Lo | California State Teachers Employees Retirement System | |||||
| Drew McKnight | Fortress Investment Group | |||||
| Marina Mekhlis | Rocaton Investment Advisors | |||||
| Neil Messing | Bureau of Asset Management, New York City | |||||
| Gideon Nieuwoudt | Silver Creek Capital Management | |||||
| Ricky Nardis | UBS Alternative Investment Solutions | |||||
| Vinay Nair | Ada Investments | |||||
| Sean Murphy | Game Creek Capital | |||||
| Kimberly Mounts | MAP Alternative Asset Management Company | |||||
| Tony Waskiewicz | Sisters of Mercy Health Systems | |||||
| Andrew Tsai | Chalkstream Capital Group | |||||
| David Solomon | Goldman, Sachs & Co. | |||||
| Howard Shainker | Bow Street | |||||
| Danny Sachnowitz | Texas Treasury Safekeeping Trust | |||||
| Justin Press | BTIG | |||||
| Dean Curnutt | Macro Risk Advisors | |||||
| James Grossman | Pennsylvania Public School Employees'' Retirement System | |||||
| Chris Paolino | Hartford Investment Management | |||||
| Mick McGuire | Marcato Capital Management | |||||