2010 Awards for excellence: Best Global hedge fund manager

Europe’s third-largest hedge fund manager has made the most of an attractive environment for discretionary trading strategies, especially in fixed income.

Best Global hedge fund manager: Bluecrest Capital
Also nominated: Renaissance Technologies and Brevan Howard Asset Management

Since two senior proprietary traders from JPMorgan – Michael Platt and Bill Reeves – set up BlueCrest Capital in 2000, its three flagship funds have never had a down year. In the light of tanking stock markets, credit crunches, collateral calls and forced redemptions, such an achievement seems inconceivable.

The firm, which until recently was headquartered in London, has about $20 billion in assets under management, making it the third-largest hedge fund manager in Europe, and has nine funds in total.

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