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Moore Capital Management
Moore Capital Management is an SEC-registered investment adviser in New York, NY, since 2012. It manages $23.7 billion in assets. The firm has 337 employees...
Moore Capital Management
Moore Capital Management is an SEC-registered investment adviser in New York, NY, since 2012. It manages $23.7 billion in assets. The firm has 337 employees and 166 investment advisers.
General information
Firm type
Generalist
Year founded
1989
AUM
Undisclosed
Location
Region
North America
Country
United States
City
New York
Corporate office
New York, NY, United States
Additional offices
London, United Kingdom · Hong Kong · Florida, United States
Principals
Louis Moore Bacon
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Frequently asked questions
Who runs investment decisions at Moore Capital Management?
Louis Moore Bacon serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer and is the indirect owner of Moore Capital Management. As the firm has been led by its founder since 1989, investment decisions are understood to flow through Bacon's office. The firm does not publicly name a separate CIO or an investment committee distinct from the founder.
Is Moore Capital Management a single family office?
No. Moore Capital Management is a Delaware limited partnership operating as an investment manager, not a family office. While the firm is principally owned indirectly by Louis Moore Bacon, its registration and history since 1989 position it as a multi-strategy asset manager serving external capital alongside proprietary capital.
Does Moore Capital Management operate solely as a macro hedge fund?
Moore Capital Management built its reputation as a global macro franchise, but its current posture is broader. The firm's mandate spans macro, equity long/short, credit, and commodity strategies. It also historically incubated internal trading teams, some of which later ran external capital in a model common among large macro platforms.
What is Moore Capital Management's known posture on co-investments alongside external GPs?
Moore Capital Management does not publicly operate a dedicated co-investment program. As a manager rather than an allocator, its interaction with external GPs typically takes the form of seed deals for spun-out managers or opportunistic allocations within its macro and multi-strategy books. No formal co-investment vehicle is disclosed.
Where does the underlying capital under management come from?
The firm does not publicly break out proportions of founder capital versus external LP assets. Given Bacon's indirect principal ownership and the firm's four-decade track record, the vehicle likely blends significant proprietary capital with institutional and high-net-worth LP commitments. No specific wealth-origin event for Bacon is disclosed in available primary sources.
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