Aaron Armstrong, a former trader at Brevan Howard Asset Management, has left his role as a director at Deutsche Bank to join the London outfit of Louis Bacon’s $14 billion hedge fund giant, Moore Capital.
Armstrong joined Moore from Deutsche Bank in early February. He is understood to be trading multiple asset classes with an emphasis on fixed income.
Armstrong was a trader for Enron, before spending more than four years at Brevan Howard from 2004 through 2008. This was followed by a brief stint as an executive director at Goldman Sachs, before joining Deutsche Bank in June 2009. Armstrong and a Moore spokesman both declined to comment.
Though his most recent position was with Deutsche Bank, Armstrong is one of several Brevan Howard veterans to resurface at Moore Europe in recent months. Jean-Philippe Blochet—one of Brevan’s co-founders along with Alan Howard, and responsible for the capital ‘B’ that kicks off the firm’s name—left the firm late last year and joined Moore’s London unit soon afterwards. Long-time Brevan trader Luke Sandrian also made the move to Moore Europe in the second half of last year.
—Robert Murray