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Point72 Lures Marshall Wace’s Liu With $50 Million Pay Package

  • Kevin Liu to join Point72 later this year as portfolio manager
  • Move is latest sign of talent war between multistrategy firms
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Steve Cohen’s Point72 Asset Management has hired Marshall Wace portfolio manager Kevin Liu, promising a compensation package of at least $50 million, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

New York-based Liu is set to join Point72 later this year as a long-short equity portfolio manager focused on technology, media and telecommunications, said one of the people, all of whom requested anonymity discussing confidential information.