Billionaire Brazil Family Hires Levi for Multi-Strategy Team
The investment office for Brazil's Moreira Salles family has hired Paul Levi as head of trading at a newly created division.
BW Gestao de Investimentos brought in Levi for its equity multi-strategy platform in New York last month, according to his LinkedIn profile. He traded for firms including Ken Griffin's Citadel and Magnetar Capital, and was most recently with Delta Global Management, one of the hedge funds that got money from Izzy Englander's Millennium Management.
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