Looking back at Hutchin Hill’s rise and the early days of Alfred Winslow Jones

AR explores rumors that the hedge fund pioneer was a WWII spy and revisits the opening of Neil Chriss’s quant fund.

Suzy Kenly Waite March 1, 2011

One year ago »» Former SAC Capital Advisors quant chief Neil Chriss began marketing his Hutchin Multi-Strategy fund to outside investors for the first time. The strategy had launched in July 2008 with $300 million from the Meritage Fund, Renaissance Technologies founder Jim

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