“What do you have in outside money, one dollar, two dollars?” —What Kenbelle Capital founder Meredith Whitney claims BlueCrest Capital Management co-founder Michael Platt said to her when she informed him that his request to withdraw his anchor investment from her fund would harm the fund’s other investors. (Via her affidavit filed in New York State Supreme Court)
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“Under Anne’s management, Aragon lost money for four consecutive years.” Citadel founder Kenneth Griffin, in a court filing pertaining to his divorce battle with Anne Dias-Griffin, who managed the now-defunct Aragon hedge fund. Dias-Griffin has said she shuttered the fund to focus on raising the couple’s children. (Via New York Post)
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“Can’t nothing bring me down, my level’s too high.” BlueCrest veteran and Systematica Investments founder Leda Braga, singing the Pharrell Williams hit “Happy” to a gathering of 80 employees of her newly-launched hedge fund firm, which posted a 9.5 percent gain in its largest fund in the firm’s first month. With $9 billion in assets, Systematica is the largest hedge fund firm in the world run exclusively by a woman. (Via Bloomberg)
