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Is This Kid The Next Tim Sykes?
Dealbreaker —
... Probably not, considering he seems to lack the same fame-whore sheen as Timbo but you must understand that when any college student is running a hedge fund out of his dorm room, we have to ask. To that end, we should probably wonder aloud to ourselves, is Merritt Graves the next Ken Griffin? And which is a bigger insult (just busting your hump KG, you know we love and have full faith a victory lap is in Citadel's future)? One way Graves, ...
Smarter than your average undergrad?
FT Alphaville —
... points to an Institutional Investor story on a 23-year-old financial wunderkind Merritt Graves - who is managing a $4.7m equity long-short fund while nominally attending college in California. From II’s rather frothy profile of the talented Mr Graves: In themselves, the numbers put up by Caelum Capital, as Graves’s five-person firm is known, are impressive. For a fund piloted by a kid who has no professional investment training and who only recently moved out of the dorms, they are uncanny. Last year, when the average equity hedge fund manager was down 26.4 percent, ...
The Merritt Graves Story: This Is What America Is All About
TIM - Timothy Sykes —
... “, I read THIS article about a college kid starting a hedge fund out of his dorm room (as I did, read all about my hedge fund’s creation, ups and downs ...
