Hedge Funds

BlueCrest hires ex-BNP Paribas rates trader as senior money manager

Francois Puget spent almost three decades at the French bank

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Hedge funds are continuing to hoover up trading talent with bumper pay packets Photo: Vivian Wan/Bloomberg /Getty Images

Michael Platt’s BlueCrest Capital Management has hired BNP Paribas’ head of G10 rates trading to boost its team of money managers in London.

Francois Puget, who left BNP Paribas earlier this year, has joined BlueCrest as a senior portfolio manager.

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