Xantium: The best quant hedge fund you've never heard of?
Which is the best quantitative hedge fund to work for now? You might think it's QRT, unless you want visibility over your personal PnL. You might think it's Point72's Cubist, unless you're a member of the centralized trading unit formerly run by Issam Bazzi. There's always DE Shaw. And then, there's Xantium.
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Xantium is on a roll. Multiple sources in the market say the fund is ingesting top quant trading talent as it grows. By our reckoning it's add at least 30 people in the past three months, many of them junior quants or operational professionals like Colin Dunne, a risk manager from Caxton.
Xantium is nothing new. It's the quant trading arm of US hedge fund Tudor. Founding partners Oliver Watson, Sergey Levin, Dmitriy Genkin and Christian Volcker began their careers at Tudor over a decade ago and founded Xantium in 2020.
Things are are changing, though: Xantium is spinning out of Tudor and is expected to emerge as a standalone entity with $5bn in assets in early 2027. As it does so, it's expected to hire.
Xantium declined to comment for this story, but one New York headhunter said the fund has emerged as the most desired employer in the market. "They the best quant traders in the business, with some of the brightest minds. It's one of the best systematic hedge funds out there," he claimed.
This may be amplification, but Xantium has a good if low key reputation as a high paying and meritocratic employer with a focus on computer scientists and quants. It's currently looking for quant developers, quant researchers and volatility traders. As it builds out a standalone operation, infrastructure hires may follow.
Xantium itself says it's about "unity not uniformity." Pay is high. Levels.fyi has a single datapoint. It's from a New York quant developer with one year's experience, who's on $277k.
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