Brevan Howard

Brevan Howard (officially Brevan Howard Asset Management LLP) is a European hedge fund management company based in Jersey with its funds domiciled in the Cayman Islands. Brevan Howard was founded in 2002 by Alan Howard, alongside four other co-founders including Chris Rokos, and is widely considered to be one of the top global macro hedge funds. Brevan Howard has also been described as one of the largest "macro hedge funds" in the world with assets under management (AUM) having peaked at $40 billion in October 2013 before downsizing to $18 billion in 2016 following a period of suppressed volatility as a result of central bank quantitative easing. By 2020, Brevan Howard was managing around $10 billion in investor assets across its six offices globally where it returned 99%, the best recorded year for the firm amid the COVID-19 global pandemic. Following a resurgence in returns and fresh investor capital, as of October 2022, the fund now manages around $26 billion in assets. Brevan Howard is known to employ traders from major investment banks, portfolio managers from competing hedge funds, and advanced quantitative analysts. According to one of the company's founding partners, "high turnover is part of the business model" and traders are "cut" if they do not perform up to the company's standards for success. According to one investment consultant, Brevan Howard's standards for success in trading are so high that some traders who have been dismissed from Brevan Howard "have become stars at other firms."