Goldman Sachs' ex-head of APAC index trading got a new hedge fund job
As often seems to be the case, Ajay Kumar's long tenure as a top trader in an investment bank, doesn't seem to have been perpetuated since he left to work on the buy-side.
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Kumar spent a decade at Goldman Sachs before leaving in 2020. He was latterly head of APAC Index trading at Goldman, before leaving first for hedge fund Brevan Howard, where he spent sixteen months, and then for hedge fund Millennium where he spent a little over three years and was a senior portfolio manager. He's just joined ExodusPoint, another hedge fund, based in Singapore.
It's understood that Kumar has been on a period of gardening leave since leaving Millennium, implying that he left of his own accord. Millennium declined to comment on his exit.
ExodusPoint returned 6.4% in the year to October according to Business Insider. In October itself, however, its returns were a mere 0.2%.
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