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Rasheed Sabar
Managing Director, Ellington Management Group
Rasheed Sabar is a Managing Director at Ellington Management Group. Rasheed joined the firm in 2005 as a founding member of Ellington's Systematic Investing Group. Over a number of years, he developed the core set of strategies traded by the group, including algorithms in stocks, financial futures, commodities and volatility. Over time, Rasheed has grown the number of strategies from 3 to over 15, and has cultivated a team of extremely talented researchers and traders. Today, he oversees Ellington's entire Systematic Investing Group, and is responsible for setting and directing the group's research agenda and trading activities, respectively. Rasheed graduated summa cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa from Harvard University. While at Harvard, Rasheed authored and published four papers in the mathematical field of combinatronics, and received several awards, including the Sohier prize for best thesis in the humanities.
