PDT Partners (Process Driven Trading Partners) is a

hedge fund A hedge fund is a pooled investment fund that trades in relatively liquid assets and is able to make extensive use of more complex trading, portfolio-construction, and risk management techniques in an attempt to improve performance, such as sho ...

company, led by quantitative trader Peter Muller, that was founded in 1993 as part of

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's trading division and spun out as an independent business in 2012. It has offices in

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and

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History

PDT Partners started out as a

proprietary trading Proprietary trading (also known as prop trading) occurs when a trader trades stocks, bonds, currencies, commodities, their derivatives, or other financial instruments with the firm's own money (instead of using depositors' money) in order to make ...

division (called the Process Driven Trading Group) of multinational

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corporation

in 1993. According to ''Bloomberg'', PDT's investments have returned an estimated annual average of more than 20 percent through 2010. In January 2011, Morgan Stanley announced that it would spin off PDT into a separate hedge fund in order to comply with the

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. The spin-off began in 2012. In October 2012, it was announced that

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had put $500 million into PDT, but without seeking any equity in the hedge fund.

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considered this unusual and a testament to Muller's market power and ability. In 2013, the spin-off was complete. In February 2013, it was announced that the fund had raised $2.3 billion in total and was beginning operations in

and

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in addition to

. Peter Muller, the CEO of PDT, who started PDT as Morgan Stanley's proprietary trading group, was described by Bloomberg.com as an "unlikely executive", a 47-year-old math wizard, and a person with diverse intellectual interests and hobbies. In 2019, Forbes reported that Muller earned around $150 million in the previous year, making its list of the highest-earning hedge fund managers for 2018.

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