Nationality American Name Yan Huo | ||
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Net worth £130m (201m) USD (2011) | ||
Yan Huo is an American hedge fund manager. He is the co-founder of London-based Capula Investment Management, which was established in 2005.
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Education
Huo graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree in Physics, China. He graduated from Princeton University in 1993 with a Ph.D in electrical engineering.
Career
He joined JP Morgan as a quantitative analyst and rose to lead its fixed-income proprietary trading team. In 2005 he along with Masao Asai founded Capula Investment Management. The flagship fund, Global Relative Value, invests in liquid government bonds, interest-rate swaps and major exchange-traded futures and options contracts. Forbes listed him as the 21st highest earning hedge fund manager in its 2011 ranking "The Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers."
In 2012, Capula awarded Huo a $42 million bonus.