Highbridge Said to Hire BlueCrest's Oh as Asian Equities Manager

  • Oh left BlueCrest and is expected to start new job late April
  • He also worked for Marshall Wace, Citadel and Owl Creek
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Highbridge Capital Management, whose hedge-fund business oversees about $6 billion globally, hired Karyo Oh as an equities fund manager in Asia as investments in the region have expanded, said a person with knowledge of the matter.

Oh is expected to start at Highbridge in Hong Kong at the end of this month to manage Asian equity long-short investments focused on industrial companies, said the person, who asked not to be identified as the information hasn’t yet been made public. He previously worked at BlueCrest Capital Management, where he was a fund manager on its Asia equities team in Hong Kong.