HITC – Jeremy Wien, JPMorgan’s head of VIX trading and a competitive poker player, is joining hedge fund Och-Ziff Capital Management Group.
Bloomberg News reports that Wien, 29, will trade equity-index derivatives at Och-Ziff, he said Thursday in an e-mail to clients and co-workers. He joined JPMorgan in 2012 to trade options and futures on the VIX, as the Chicago Board Options Exchange Volatility Index is known. In his e-mail, Wien thanked his JPMorgan colleagues for the two-year experience.
