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(Bloomberg) — Ken Griffin’s Citadel churned out a record $16 billion in profit for clients last year, outperforming the rest of the industry and one of history’s most successful financial plays. Most Read from Bloomberg The top 20 hedge fund firms collectively generated $22.4 billion in profit after fees, according to estimates by LCH Investments, a fund of hedge funds. Citadel’s gain was the largest annual return for a hedge fund manager, surpassing the $15 billion that John Paulson… Source link

If U.S. regulators crack down on the controversial practice of payment for order flow, it may have one unintended consequence. Big trading outfits could become much larger and even more influential in markets, explains Interactive Brokers chairman and founder Thomas Peterffy.  “If they were to prohibit payment for order flow, what has to happen is you would have Citadel buy Robinhood and Schwab would buy Virtu, and the two sides would be put together into one company,” Peterffy said on Yahoo… Source link

(Bloomberg) — Tesla Inc.’s historic entry into the S&P 500 could be bad news for shareholders of some other stocks in the index — at least temporarily. Funds that mimic the benchmark are set to buy more than $70 billion of the carmaker’s shares and dump an equal amount of stock in existing members, producing intense selling pressure that could lead to dislocations, warned Greg Sutton, head of portfolio trading at Citadel Securities, one of the most active traders of U.S. stocks. The… Source link