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Top performers are writing their own cheques as quant firms ramp up in China High-frequency trading is on the rise in mainland China as quant firms ramp up their local presence. Jump Trading, Optiver and Tower Research Capital are all hiring talent in Shanghai amid a growth in commodity and equity futures trading.   “HFT firms are hiring traders, researchers and developers. They have open headcount targets because there’s a shortage of talent,” said Oliver Wherrett, a director at search...

Hello, readers. Happy Saturday, and welcome to Insider Finance. Heres a rundown of the must-know stories from the past week. We mapped out more than 30 top quant recruiters. Jamie Dimon said some JPMorgan employees will start returning to offices within weeks.  D1 Capital has been on a private-investing spree — here are 24 companies its backed in 2021. How a $4.2 billion JPMorgan-backed soccer venture ended up a giant mea culpa. If this email was forwarded to you, sign up here to get your d...

Two Sigma takes quant expertise into real estate investing Two Sigma takes quant expertise into real estate investing Bloomberg J. Tomlinson Hill Two Sigma is starting a group to invest in private real estate assets as the $58 billion quant firm seeks to expand its data-science expertise into non-public markets. Rich Gomel, most recently managing partner of WeWorks real estate investment platform, has joined as chief investment officer of Two Sigma Real Estate, the company said. Tom Hill will ...

Scott Olson/Getty Good morning and welcome to Insider Finance. Im Dan DeFrancesco, and heres whats on the agenda today: Two Sigma is getting into real-estate investing, and looking to a former WeWork executive for help.  Systematic trading firm Vatic just hired a former finance professor to launch a new quant strategy. Like the newsletter? Hate the newsletter? Feel free to drop me a line at ddefrancesco@businessinsider.com or on Twitter @DanDeFrancesco.  ...

Boundless Immigration, a Seattle, WA-based organization that empowers families to navigate the immigration system, raised $25M in Series B funding. The funding, which brought total amount raised to $45.3m, was led by Foundry Group, joined by new investors Emerson Collective and Jerry Yang from AME Cloud Ventures. Existing investors Forefront Venture Partners, Industry Ventures, Pioneer Square Labs, Trilogy Equity Partners, and Two Sigma Ventures.  The company intends to use the funds to tripl...

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This Seattle Software Startup Just Raised $25 Million To Help Immigrants Come To The U.S. Share to Facebook Share to Linkedin Boundless Immigration CEO Xiao Wang (center), cofounder Serday Sutay (center right) and colleagues are looking to build a software hub for the immigration process. Boundless Immigration When Boundless Immigration CEO Xiao Wang’s parents immigrated to the the U.S. from their native Nanjing, China, Xiao had to be left behind with relatives. At age three, he joined his pa...

The hiring market for quant and data-science specialists is red-hot on Wall Street.  Theyre the lifeblood of hedge funds, trading firms, market makers, and bank trading teams. Heres Insiders list of the top headhunters in the war for quant finance talent. The market for quant and data-science specialists has perhaps never been hotter. And the technologists, researchers, scientists, and traders developing cutting-edge investment strategies and platforms arent just coveted by hedge funds. Theyre...

Two Sigma Launches Real Estate Investment Business Rich Gomel Joins Two Sigma as Chief Investment Officer of Two Sigma Real Estate News provided by Share this article Share this article NEW YORK, April 21, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- Two Sigma announced today it has launched Two Sigma Real Estate, a new business focused on making investments in private real estate assets. As part of this initiative, Rich Gomel has joined Two Sigma as Managing Director and Chief Investment Officer of Two Sigma Real Est...