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Brevan Howard hired Gurpreet Singh as CTO of its Alpha Strategies fund.
Singh is the former CTO of Point72 s quant-trading group Cubist.
Brevan Howard has been ramping up hiring amid a strong streak of returns.
Brevan Howard has hired a chief technology officer for one of its largest strategies as the $13 billion hedge fund ramps up hiring amid a streak of strong returns.
Gurpreet Singh, formerly the CTO at Point72 Asset Management s Cubist unit, is set to join Brevan Howard s Alpha Strategies fund next week as CTO, according to sources familiar with the matter. Singh departed last summer after more than a decade at Point72.
DIMMING THE SUN: Bill Gates and other Family Office Owners Allocate Capital to Solar Geoengineering
Posted on 02/17/2021
The Paris Agreement is an agreement within the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, on climate change mitigation, adaptation, and finance, signed in 2016. There are many attempts and experiments trying to control global warming. Solar geoengineering refers to proposed approaches to cool the Earth by reflecting solar radiation back to space. Some of these experimental ideas range from sending a giant mirror into space to spraying aerosols in the stratosphere. The two main approaches being researched are stratospheric aerosol injection (SAI) and marine cloud brightening (MCB). Microsoft’s billionaire founder Bill Gates is financially backing the development of technology that could dim the sun. The Stratospheric Controlled Perturbation Experiment (SCoPEx) was launched by Harvard University scientists. The goal of the experiment is to examine thi