Ian Wace
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Ian Wace is a co-founder of Marshall Wace Asset Management, one of Europe's leading hedge fund institutions with circa $2 billion under management. Marshall Wace Asset Management manages the award winning Eureka Fund, and Europe's largest TMT hedge fund Eureka Interactive. In addition Eureka Strategic Partners provides seed capital and expertise for the launching of talented new Hedge Fund Managers.
Ian was formerly Global Head of Equity and Derivative Trading at Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Prior to joining Deutsche Morgan Grenfell in 1995, he worked for eleven years at SG Warburg & Co Ltd., where he became, at the age of twenty-five, the youngest ever Director. In 1988, he was appointed Head of European Equity Sales and, in 1993, Head of Proprietary Trading and in 1994 Head of International Trading.
The Sunday Times Rich lists him as Britain's 263rd richest individual and he is one of the founders of Absolute Return for Kids charity. Every year the Ark gala dinner brings the world of serious A-list celebrity and hedge fund money together - this year it raised a record £26m. His brother Charles Wace is CEO of leading regional Television production company Twofour Group
