After posting strong gains in its multistrategy fund and boosting assets by 75% in 2010, Jacob Gottlieb’s Visium Asset Management is getting ready to bolster its portfolio management team.
Visium Global, a multistrategy fund launched in October 2007, returned a stunning 113.33% in 2009 and a sizable 20.05% last year. The firm recently hired Rahul Mepani as a portfolio manager for the multistrategy fund and expects at least two more portfolio managers to join this quarter. The New York firm’s flagship,...