{"id":46994,"date":"2026-03-06T16:41:34","date_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:41:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/citadel-and-point72-posted-gains-in-a-choppy-february-as-balyasny-and-jain-global-slipped\/"},"modified":"2026-03-06T16:41:34","modified_gmt":"2026-03-06T16:41:34","slug":"citadel-and-point72-posted-gains-in-a-choppy-february-as-balyasny-and-jain-global-slipped","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/citadel-and-point72-posted-gains-in-a-choppy-february-as-balyasny-and-jain-global-slipped\/","title":{"rendered":"Citadel and Point72 posted gains in a choppy February as Balyasny and Jain Global slipped"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/69a597bd1fb3fcb42648b7b2?format=jpeg\" alt=\"Ken Griffin smiles in a dark suit on stage\"\/><figcaption>Ken Griffin&#039;s Citadel was up in February, according to a person close to the firm.<\/p>\n<p>Denis Balibouse\/Reuters<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>Big-name funds such as Citadel, ExodusPoint, and more notched gains last month.<\/li>\n<li>It was another big month for Asia-based funds, including $6 billion Dymon Asia.<\/li>\n<li>Hedge funds were largely positive last month despite the S&amp;P 500 index recording a loss in February.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Ken Griffin&#039;s Citadel performed across the board in February.<\/p>\n<p>The firm&#039;s five strategies that feed into its flagship Wellington fund \u2014 fundamental equity, quant, commodities, fixed income and macro, and credit and convertibles \u2014 were all up last month, a person close to the Miami-based manager told Business Insider.<\/p>\n<p>The fund was up 1.9% on the month, bringing its 2026 gains to 2.9%.<\/p>\n<p>The firm, which managed $66 billion at the start of February, notched gains of 1.5% in February in its tactical trading fund, which blends the firm&#039;s fundamental stockpickers with its computer-run equity portfolios.<\/p>\n<p>Steve Cohen&#039;s Point72 is up 4.5% on the year after returning 1.7% over the month. Its peer Millennium is now up 2% on the year after a 0.6% gain in February.<\/p>\n<p>It was another banner month for Asia-based multistrategy funds. $6 billion Dymon Asia made nearly 5% in February, bringing its 2026 gains to more than 10%, while Pinpoint Asset Management is up 6.6% for the year in its flagship fund.<\/p>\n<p>The stock market was down on the month, as the S&amp;P 500 index gave back some of the gains it had notched in January. The broad sell-off in software stocks, driven by AI releases, hurt blue-chip companies like Salesforce.<\/p>\n<p>There were a few multistrategy managers that ended the month down. Balyasny lost 0.4% on the month, though is still positive for the year. Walleye had its second straight down month in February, and is now down 1.4% in 2026. Jain Global lost money again in February and is down 2.2% on the year.<\/p>\n<p>This month has already been volatile thanks to the strikes against Iran by the US and Israel on Saturday. Oil prices have surged, and stocks tumbled on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Firms mentioned in the story and the table below declined to comment. <br \/><em>This story was originally published on March 2 at 10:22 a.m. New figures have been added to the table below as they have been learned.<\/em><\/p>\n<table>\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Fund<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>February performance<\/strong><\/td>\n<td><strong>2026 performance<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Dymon Asia<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>4.9%<\/td>\n<td>10.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Pinpoint Asset Management<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>1.7%<\/td>\n<td>6.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Point72<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>1.7%<\/td>\n<td>4.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Citadel Wellington<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>1.9%<\/td>\n<td>2.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>North Rock<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>0%<\/td>\n<td>2.7%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>ExodusPoint<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>0.9%<\/td>\n<td>2.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Boothbay<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>1.2%<\/td>\n<td>2.6%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>LMR<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>1.5%<\/td>\n<td>2.1%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Millennium<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>0.6%<\/td>\n<td>2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Verition<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>0%<\/td>\n<td>1.5%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Schonfeld Partners<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>0%<\/td>\n<td>0.9%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Balyasny<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>-0.4%<\/td>\n<td>0.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Walleye<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>-0.8%<\/td>\n<td>-1.4%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td><strong>Jain Global<\/strong><\/td>\n<td>-1.3%<\/td>\n<td>-2.2%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Griffin&#039;s Citadel was up in February, according to a person close to the firm. Denis Balibouse\/Reuters Big-name funds such as Citadel, ExodusPoint, and more notched gains last month. It was another big month for Asia-based funds, including $6 billion Dymon Asia. Hedge funds were largely positive last month despite the S&amp;P 500 index recording [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-46994","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}