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Biography
Yan Huo is an American hedge fund manager. He is the co-founder of London-based Capula Investment Management, which was established in 2005.
Education
Huo graduated from Fudan University with a bachelor's degree in Physics, then from Princeton University in 1993 with a Ph.D in electrical engineering.
Career
He joined JP Morgan as a quantitative analyst and rose to lead its fixed income proprietary trading team. In 2005 he along with Masao Asai founded Capula Investment Management. The flagship fund, Global Relative Value, invests in liquid government bonds, interest rate swaps and major exchange-traded futures and options contracts. Forbes listed him as the 21st highest earning hedge fund manager in its 2011 ranking.
In 2011, Capula awarded Huo a £27 million bonus.
In 2012, this became $42 million, and in 2016, £72 million.
According to The Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, Huo has a net worth of £470 million.