Mike Soss Chief Investment Officer at Millburn
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Mike has two decades of investment experience spanning the systematic and fundamental. He is currently the Chief Investment Officer at Millburn Ridgefield, a systematic macro asset manager with over $11B in AuM.
Prior to joining Millburn, he was the founder and head of the Fusion division at Point72, where he laid out a vision and built a team to systematically enhance and monetize the work of fundamental investors. Studying the investors’ processes, the unit built models of stocks, models of investors and their skills, and models of the strength of individual investments. The unit managed a significant portion of the firm’s capital and comprised over 50 people, including technologists, data engineers, fundamental analysts, quant researchers, decision scientists, AI practioners, traders, and business strategists. Mike also was responsible for overseeing risk for Cubist, Point72’s systematic arm, and for managing the firm’s trading algorithms and execution research.
Prior to Point72, Mike was a partner at SECOR Asset Management, where he launched and managed the firm’s equity portfolios. He began his career in finance at Goldman Sachs‘s securities division, designing and implementing real-time market making strategies in fixed income before becoming a founding member of the equity systematic trading group. Mike co-led the team, managing both systematic and thematic investing in US, Japanese, and Brazilian equities.
Mike earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Harvard University and his master’s and doctorate degrees in computer science from McGill.
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