Hedge fund Jain Global is hiring quants in London
Bobby Jain's hedge fund, Jain Global, is in the habit of hiring '35-year-old killers'. It's also in the habit of hiring quants; the fund has brought in multiple quants in recent months with a particular focus on London.
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Paul Woodward joined Jain in London this month as a senior quantitative developer after three years at Citadel. Woodward has completed the trifecta of quant roles already; he was a quant researcher at ExodusPoint before joining Citadel, and a quant strategist at Morgan Stanley before that.
It also hired Alexander Kazantsev as a senior quant researcher. He's a Russia-educated PhD mathematician who previously worked at WorldQuant which, like Jain Global, has roots at hedge fund Millennium. Most recently, he was a quant research analyst at hedge fund Graham Capital.
Jain Global's quant leadership appears to be concentrated in London. The city is home to Anton Merluskin, head of quant modelling and analytics for Jain. He's another Russia-educated quant who spent a collective 25 years at Credit Suisse across two stints, separated by a short spell at ill-fated hedge fund Eisler Capital. Peter Bolland, a former Morgan Stanley MD and CIO for quantitative strategies at Jain, is also London-based.
Jain is still a very young hedge fund. 2025 was only its first full year of trading, in which it posted modest returns of ~3.7%. Bobby Jain said on a podcast earlier this year that, alongside experience, more data will improve things; bolstering its quant ranks may help Jain Global put said data to good use.
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