Perceptive Advisors
Healthcare and biotech specialist Perceptive Advisors has raised four SPACs, and completed three deals.
The firm s chief investment officer Adam Stone walked Insider through their SPAC strategy.
The firm has taken Immatics, Cerevel Therapeutics, and Nautilus Biotechnology public via SPACs.
Compared to the average SPAC sponsor, Perceptive Advisors track record has been phenomenal.
Less than a third of SPACs that took a target company public between 2015 and the summer of 2020 generated positive returns, according to Greenwich-based investment bank Renaissance Capital, yet Perceptive has seen gains so far for the three private companies it has taken public in the last 12 months: German-based biotech firm Immatics, Pfizer spinoff Cerevel Therapeutics, and biotech firm Nautilus.
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PointState deputy CIO Zach Kurz is starting his own fund, Pinnbrook Capital.
The firm is expected to start trading April 1 with $500 million.
Kurz took over many responsibilities of PointState cofounder Josh Samuelson when he left late 2019.
Zach Kurz, a former Forbes 30 under 30 member and deputy CIO for PointState, is starting his own hedge fund, sources tell Insider.
The new firm will be called Pinnbrook Capital, and is expected to start trading April 1 with $500 million. Sources told Insider the new firm has an anchor investor that is pumping in roughly half of the firm s starting capital.
Kurz is another big name to leave PointState. He took over the responsibilities of PointState cofounder Josh Samuelson when he left the firm in late 2019. Samuelson and Zachary Schreiber, two disciples of billionaire investor Stanley Druckenmiller, founded PointState in 2011 along with five other former Duquesne staffers, including Kurz who worked for Druckenmiller as analyst for a year a