Stephen Peyser has been named global head of trading and capital markets at Balyasny Asset Management.
US-based manager Balyasny holds more than US$21 billion in assets under management. It covers multiple asset classes, with a focus on equities.
Peyser joins from Bank of America Merrill Lynch, where he spent more than a decade as a managing director and head of US cash equity trading.
Earlier in his career, Peyser was a vice president of equity trading at Goldman Sachs, focused on consumer discretionary stocks, and a consumer sector-oriented equity trader at JP Morgan.
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