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Izzy Englander's Millennium Management hedge fund gained 2.5 percent in December, bringing its 2024 return to 15 percent, according to investors.
The firm is one of the world's leading hedge fund managers, managing $72.1bn across more than 320 investment teams and trading a range of strategies.
Multi-manager hedge funds organize traders in different asset classes, all managed by a risk-weighted strategy designed to prevent large losses.
Englander still owns 100 percent of Millennium, which he founded in 1989 with $35 million in assets. Ken Griffin's Millennium and Citadel are pioneers of multi-manager funds, which have grown rapidly in the 4.5tn hedge fund industry.
Millennium's returns last year trailed those of the S&P 500, an index of US blue-chip companies, which rose 23 percent on the back of big gains in a handful of technology companies.
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