Nguyen Trung Tu

Vietnamese quantitative investor and former national IMO silver medalist (1999). Trained in mathematics in France (Ecole Polytechnique; Universite Paris Cite / Pierre and Marie Curie University), he built a career in systematic and quantitative investing: research and portfolio management at Capital Fund Management (CFM) in Paris (2010-2017), quantitative research at Cubist Systematic Strategies / Point72 (2018-2024), portfolio management at Brevan Howard in Singapore (2024-2025), and portfolio management at Balyasny Asset Management (from 2026).

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• Quant employment verification: CONFIRMED. Actual past/present roles: Capital Fund Management (CFM, cfm.fr), a systematic/quantitative investment manager, as Research Manager - Directional Strategies (2010-2013) and Portfolio Manager (2014-2017); Cubist Systematic Strategies (part of Point72, point72.com), a quantitative hedge fund, as Quantitative Researcher (2018-2024); Brevan Howard (brevanhoward.com), a global macro hedge fund, as Portfolio Manager (2024-2025); and Balyasny Asset Management (bamfunds.com), a multi-strategy hedge fund, as Portfolio Manager (from 2026-04). All four are verified quantitative/hedge-fund employers; identity is supported by his LinkedIn enrichment, a risk.net author profile, a Vietnamese interview explicitly linking the IMO silver medal to a hedge-fund career, and a 2026-04-13 efinancialcareers article on Balyasny hiring a Brevan Howard PM in Singapore. Some dates are index/LinkedIn-sourced and shown as such.Apr 13, 2026
• Efinancialcareers (2026-04-13) reported Balyasny Asset Management hired a Brevan Howard portfolio manager in Singapore as it grows in Asia, dated four months before his LinkedOut/Instagram-profiled Balyasny role.Apr 13, 2026
• Won a Silver medal for Vietnam at IMO 1999 (23 points, rank 62, 86.4th percentile), per the official IMO participant record.Jul 1999
• Risk.net (a specialist risk/derivatives publication) carries an author page for Trung-Tu Nguyen, and SSRN/CFM research papers on risk premia and trend-following (e.g. 'Risk Premia: Asymmetric Tail Risks and Excess Returns', 'Tail Protection for Long Investors') are co-authored by a Trung-Tu Nguyen affiliated with CFM - corroborating the CFM research/portfolio-manager period.
• Vietnamese media and interview content publicly frame his trajectory as 'from IMO silver medal to hedge fund' and a Vietnamese-Singapore association post titles him 'TS. Nguyễn Trung Tú' (Dr.) currently at Balyasny Asset Management - indicating a doctorate and his current employer, matching the index lead.
• Capital Fund Management (CFM) is a systematic/quantitative asset manager (cfm.fr); Cubist Systematic Strategies operates as Point72's quantitative trading arm (point72.com); Brevan Howard is a global macro hedge fund; Balyasny is a multi-strategy hedge fund. Name containing 'quant' or 'hedge' alone was not accepted - each was checked against its own domain/description.
• LinkedIn enrichment (Singapore) lists education at Ecole Polytechnique, Universite Paris Cite and Pierre and Marie Curie University, consistent with a French mathematical-sciences training path and a France-based early quant career (CFM is Paris-based).
• LinkedIn enrichment headcount figures: ~420 connections, ~470 followers; profile location Singapore.