Citadel closed its Aptigon stock-picking unit last week, parting ways with the unit's leader Eric Felder.
Aptigon portfolio manager Vincent Daniel who was let go from Citadel this week was portrayed by actor Jeremy Strong .Several portfolio managers have been cut by Citadel or resigned from the firm after the $29 billion hedge fund closed its Aptigon stock-picking unit last week.
Citadel's most recent cuts including two hedge fund managers whose past performance nearly won an Academy Award. Daniel and Collins, who were working for the Morgan Stanley-owned hedge fund FrontPoint Partners in the run-up to the financial crisis, joined Citadel in mid-2017 after the pair had founded the hedge fund SeaWolf Capital, which reportedly closed in May 2017. Collins also represented the US in the Olympics as a rower in the 1996 and 2000 summer Olympics.Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images
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