Bradley Saacks

Bradley Saacks covers hedge funds and other asset managers for Business Insider from London. He first wrote about the multi-trillion-dollar industry for BI from New York, joining the publication in late 2018 after two years covering mutual funds for the Financial Times' trade publication Ignites.

He left Business Insider for a little over a year, starting in mid-2022, and worked as a business reporter for Semafor, a media startup. He rejoined BI, this time in the publication's London office, in 2023.A graduate of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's School of Media and Journalism, he was the recipient of the O.J. Skipper Coffin Award, which is given to the top graduating senior in the reporting track.

During his time at BI, he has broken news on the biggest names in hedge funds, including Paul Singer's Elliott Management, Ken Griffin's Citadel, Seth Klarman's Baupost Group, and more. He is interested in telling stories about the people behind the scenes who are driving big changes at the biggest firms. He can be reached on WhatsApp and Signal at +1 919 816 5537.

Notable stories include:

• 'Trading too much and not investing enough': Dmitry Balyasny on why he's remade the hedge fund's equities team

• Why Gordon Singer is more powerful than ever at his father's $70 billion firm

• Jain Global, the most anticipated new hedge fund in years, is about to make its debut. An architect of the manager explains how it will be different.

• How $65 billion Marshall Wace is turning into the hedge funds it's criticized

• How ExodusPoint — the biggest hedge fund launch in history — continues to amass billions despite lackluster returns

• Inside the day-trader revolution that rocked the nation last year — and how it's changed the way Wall Street does business

• Meet Jim Mooney, the most powerful man you never heard of at $31 billion Baupost and heir apparent to the value-investing titan Seth Klarman

• Inside the Chicago hedge fund turf war between billionaire Ken Griffin and Dmitry Balyasny