• Quant hedge fund Seven Eight Capital is winding down, according to people familiar with the matter.
• The fund managed around $500 million at its peak and traded for Schonfeld for many years.
• The funding is closing after large investors pulled capital, the people said.

Quant hedge fund Seven Eight Capital, which for many years invested money for Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, is winding down, according to people familiar with the matter.

Seven Eight Capital is closing as a hedge fund and will cut most of its staff after two large investors redeemed capital, the people said, asking to remain anonymous because the information isn't public.

The firm could continue to operate in some capacity, the people said, potentially as a separately managed account for an existing hedge fund.

Cofounder Adrian Sisser declined to comment when reached by phone.

Seven Eight, founded by Sisser and Stephen Cash, managed around $500 million in assets at its peak, sources familiar with the firm said. It had 22 employees this year, according to a regulatory filing,

For many years it managed capital for Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, trading on the multimanager hedge fund's platform for more than a decade.

The two firms cut ties last year amid a reorg and cutbacks at Schonfeld.

• The industry's biggest names were up despite choppy markets following Donald Trump's victory.
• Balyasny led the way among multistrategy firms, posting a 3.9% monthly gain.
• Firms like Citadel and Schonfeld continue to build on a strong year of returns.

The biggest names in hedge funds ended an up-and-down month in markets in the black.

Multistrategy managers overcame the volatility surrounding Donald Trump's electoral victory — when markets initially skyrocketed but then sold off briefly before rebounding — with firms like Balyasny, Schonfeld, and Citadel posting strong returns for the month.

Balyasny led the way among its peers with a 3.9% gain in November to bring the Chicago-based manager's 2024 returns to 11.6%, a person close to the manager confirmed.

Schonfeld meanwhile continued its strong streak for the year, returning 1.8% in its flagship fund. The New York-based manager is up 17.2% for the year, a person close to the firm said. Ken Griffin's Citadel was also up 1.8% last month in its Wellington fund, while Izzy Englander's Millennium made 2.2%.

The billionaires' firms are up 13.2% and 12.5%, respectively, on the year. Bloomberg previously reported on the firms' November returns.

While multistrategy managers' returns were dwarfed by those of macro managers like Rokos and Discovery Capital that took big swings on Trump's victory, their biggest selling point — steadiness in turbulent markets — was proven true in November.

See below for more performance data. Additional firms will be added as their numbers are learned. The managers declined to comment or did not immediately respond to requests for comment.