Citadel Investments, a multi-strategy hedge fund based in Chicago with $6-7 billion in assets, is reportedly looking to hire a team of energy traders and has held talks with several former Enron employees, according to officials familiar with the firm's plans. The secretive fund has seven trading desks, but is not believed to be active in power trading. Scott Rafferty, an investor relations official at Citadel, declined all comment.
April 21, 2002