{"id":3619,"date":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-11-18T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"pequot-hedge-fund-hires-3-to-advance-strategies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/11\/2005\/pequot-hedge-fund-hires-3-to-advance-strategies.html","title":{"rendered":"Pequot hedge fund hires 3 to advance strategies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Pequot Capital Management Inc., a $7 billion hedge fund group, on Thursday said it hired three former Citadel Investment Group portfolio managers to build out equity trading andevent-driven strategies.<\/p>\n<p>  Westport, Connecticut-based Pequot said the three fund managers, Peter Labon, Carson Levit and Steve Pigott, bring expertise in TMT (technology, media and telecom), equity long-short and  event-driven investing, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>  The three joined as managing directors.<\/p>\n<p>  Art Samburg, Pequot chief executive, said the new hires are significant for the multi-strategy hedge fund. In September, Pequot said it hired a prominent Morgan Stanley banker, Byron Wien, as chief  investment strategist. Wien starts in December.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/investing\/financeArticle.aspx?type=fundsNews2&amp;storyID=URI:urn:newsml:reuters.com:20051117:MTFH18461_2005-11-17_14-41-52_N17666105:1\">Read CompleteArticle<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Pequot Capital Management Inc., a $7 billion hedge fund group, on Thursday said it hired three former Citadel Investment Group portfolio managers to build out equity trading andevent-driven strategies. Westport, Connecticut-based Pequot said the three fund managers, Peter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}