\n(Bloomberg) Barry Wittlin, a former top proprietary trader at Merrill Lynch & Co. who manages money for billionaire Alan Howard\u2019s hedge fund, is closing his firm after almost a decade.<\/p>\n
Wittlin said he will liquidate assets in his hedge fund and return money to clients of his WCG Management by the end of June, according to a letter sent to investors Wednesday and obtained by Bloomberg. Wittlin, who gave no reason for the decision in the letter, didn\u2019t return several phone messages and an e-mail seeking comment. (Bloomberg) Barry Wittlin, a former top proprietary trader at Merrill Lynch & Co. who manages money for billionaire Alan Howard\u2019s hedge fund, is closing his firm after almost a decade. Wittlin said he will liquidate assets in his hedge fund […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52397","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52397"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52398,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52397\/revisions\/52398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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