JPMorgan is saying goodbye to the cage fighter it hired from Millennium
Sean George is leaving JPMorgan. Two years after joining the bank from hedge fund Millennium, it's understood that George is going again. It's not clear where to, or whether his departure was intentional or forced.
We reported George's arrival at JPMorgan in 2023. We also reported on George's hedge fund career in 2017. He's been around. A softly spoken American, George has been in the market for nearly three decades. Before JPMorgan and Millennium, he did sojourns at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank and Jefferies.
George is a high yield trader. But he's not just a high yield trader. He's also a cage fighter, employing fighting techniques like Brazilian jiu-jitsu, boxing and Muay Thai. Speaking to us eight years ago, George described being headbutted by an opponent until his eye split open. "I don’t talk tough, but I quietly carry a heavy stick,” he said back then. Now George and his stick are off elsewhere. JPMorgan didn't respond to a request to comment.
George isn't the only high yield trader on the move. Fabian Berg, a high yield trader at Citi who joined from Credit Suisse in 2023, is also changing seats. Berg, who is based in London, is understood to have been put at risk at Citi. Citi declined to comment.
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