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2016年对冲傅nd Rising Stars: Jessye Ball

Senior investment officer Ball scouts top talent for Izzy Englander’s Millennium Management.

    Jessye Ball
    Millennium Management

    People are key to the success of Millennium Management, the multistrategy hedge fund firm founded by Israel (Izzy) Englander. The $33.2 billion outfit has one of the best track records in the industry: Since inception in 1989, its flagship Millennium Management fund has returned an annualized 14.02 percent. Jessye Ball, 36, a senior investment officer at the New York–based firm, is always on the lookout to hire portfolio managers with new ideas for its platform-based strategy, which allocates capital to more than 200 trading teams. Ball herself was recruited to Millennium in 2012 from financial services firm Rockefeller & Co., where she racked up nearly a decade’s worth of experience in several roles after a two-year stint as an analyst at Goldman Sachs Group.

    The Worcester, Massachusetts, native, who studied dance as a child, earned a BA in political science with a minor in economics from Boston College. Her first job at New York–based Rockefeller in 2005 was with its wealth services division as a client service specialist. Ball quickly grew into a portfolio-facing role before moving to the investment division, where she worked as an equity analyst for two years. While at Rockefeller she also passed her Chartered Financial Analyst exam and decided to further her education, enrolling in the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s executive MBA program in 2009. At the time, the firm didn’t have a dedicated hedge fund team; Ball, who graduated from Wharton in 2011, helped to build its hedge fund effort while spending three-day weekends studying in Philadelphia. She assisted in creating and managing two fund of hedge funds as well as proposing allocations and selecting managers — an experience that is proving invaluable for her current role at Millennium.

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    Hedge Fund Rising Stars of 2016

    Jessye Ball
    Millennium Mgmt
    Sarah Berner
    Aristeia Capital
    Jenna Bussman-Wise
    AIG Investments
    莫林常
    Point72 Asset Mgmt
    Dennis Chenfu
    Pershing
    Charles Dufresne Jr.
    Sciens Capital Mgmt
    William Freda
    Graticule Asset Mgmt Asia
    Samantha Greenberg
    Margate Capital
    Mark Gurevich
    Ropes & Gray
    Tal Gurion
    Mariner Glen Oaks
    Craig Huie
    University of California
    Yusef Kassim
    Blue Harbour Group
    Florian Kronawitter
    White Square Capital
    Vikram Kumar
    TT International
    Brandon Levin
    Jana Partners
    Jonathan Levin
    George Weiss Associates
    Brett Minarik
    Aksia
    Ian Monroe
    Etho Capital
    Jason Morrow
    Utah Retirement Systems
    Pierre-Adrien Nicolas
    Squarepoint Capital
    Jamie Pabst
    Green Owl Capital Mgmt
    Parag Pande
    Blackstone Group
    Agata Praczuk
    MetLife
    Max Saffian
    Fortress Investment Group
    Matt Satnick
    MSD Partners
    Eric Singer
    Viex Capital Advisors
    Katina Stefanova
    Marto Capital
    Reginald Tucker
    New York State Common Retirement Fund
    Michael Wang
    Cypress Funds
    Sean Wygovsky
    Polar Asset Mgmt Partners