THE HIRING GAME

摘要

With the growing appeal of algorithmic-trading tools to buy-side customers, brokerage houses are building up their algorithmic-trading teams. Often, that means raiding the competition. Over the past two years, a number of leading investment banking firms, including JPMorgan, Citigroup, Merrill Lynch and Nomura Securities, have been hiring quantitative analysts, developers and high-frequency traders with experience in statistical arbitrage or proprietary trading. It's all part of the next wave of automation sweeping trading desks, which is linked closely to profitable areas such as program trading and direct-market access. But, because they are afraid that their new teams could be poached, none of these firms would discuss their new hires for this article.