{"id":23500,"date":"2011-07-13T05:55:49","date_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:55:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=23500"},"modified":"2011-07-13T05:55:49","modified_gmt":"2011-07-13T09:55:49","slug":"two-huge-reasons-why-moving-from-prop-trading-to-hedge-funds-makes-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/07\/2011\/two-huge-reasons-why-moving-from-prop-trading-to-hedge-funds-makes-sense.html","title":{"rendered":"Two huge reasons why moving from prop trading to hedge funds makes sense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>E Finance &#8211; We\u2019ve all heard how former Goldman Sachs prop trader Morgan Sze left the firm to start up Azentus Capital Management, a Hong Kong based hedged fund, earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>More recently, another prop trader has done the same. Benjamin Fuchs, who previously headed a prop trading desk at Nomura, is starting a new hedge fund, B.A.F. Capital Management, reported Bloomberg earlier this week. The fund, also based in Hong Kong, will have 24 employees including 13 investment professionals.<\/p>\n<p>Although it\u2019s not as if every prop trader in Hong Kong is gunning to start a hedge fund, recruiters we spoke to say they are definitely seeing some movement towards the buy side.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.efinancialcareers.hk\/newsandviews_item\/newsItemId-33645\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Read Complete Article<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E Finance &#8211; We\u2019ve all heard how former Goldman Sachs prop trader Morgan Sze left the firm to start up Azentus Capital Management, a Hong Kong based hedged fund, earlier this year. More recently, another prop trader has done the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23500"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23502,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23500\/revisions\/23502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}