{"id":8619,"date":"2008-09-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2008-09-16T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"hedge-fund-citadel-hires-two-from-merrill-lynch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/09\/2008\/hedge-fund-citadel-hires-two-from-merrill-lynch.html","title":{"rendered":"Hedge fund Citadel hires two from Merrill Lynch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund firm Citadel Investment Group said on Tuesday it had hired two senior sales executives from Merrill Lynch, the investment bank that is being sold to Bank of America&nbsp; for $50 billion. <\/p>\n<p>Chicago-based Citadel, which manages around $18 billion in assets, said in a note that Tobias Gehrke and Anita Nassar had been hired to lead Citadel&#8217;s capital development efforts in Europe, the Middle East and Northern Africa. <\/p>\n<p>Nassar worked as head of central banks and sovereign wealth funds at Merrill, while Gehrke led the government institutions group for the firm&#8217;s equities and alternatives businesses. A growing number of professionals have been leaving investment banks for hedge funds, which are increasingly seen as a safer option, since the credit crisis began last summer.  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/fundsFundsNews\/idUSLA10612920080916\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/news_land.php?i=http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/fundsFundsNews\/idUSLA10612920080916\">Read Complete Article<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reuters &#8211; Hedge fund firm Citadel Investment Group said on Tuesday it had hired two senior sales executives from Merrill Lynch, the investment bank that is being sold to Bank of America&nbsp; for $50 billion. Chicago-based Citadel, which manages around [&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":[419,229,117,65,129,316,421,103,435,339],"class_list":["post-8619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-syndicated","tag-default-status","tag-eton-park","tag-investment-arm","tag-june-14","tag-losses","tag-mortgage-lenders","tag-nutmeg","tag-pergam-finance","tag-settlement-system","tag-sole-concern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619","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=8619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}