Alex Morrell is a senior correspondent at Business Insider covering Wall Street at large.
Prior to Insider he was a staff reporter at Forbes Magazine covering billionaires and their businesses. He's previously written and worked for the Associated Press, the Green Bay Press-Gazette, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, and the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.
He's a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and holds a master's in business and economic journalism from Columbia University.
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Selected recent stories:
Behind a Wall Street headhunter's rapid ascent lie accusations of harassment and abuse
Schonfeld's growing pains: Ryan Tolkin reckons with his greatest challenge yet as returns dry up at the $13 billion hedge fund
How a California hedge fund bulldozed the state's labor laws to impose some of the harshest noncompetes on Wall Street
Fear and loathing on Wall Street: Inside the paranoid, hyper-competitive onslaught to prevent quant traders from defecting to rivals
Millennium has quietly minted billions off of America's passive-investing craze. Now rivals are racing to catch up.
The bubble has popped on the mighty index-rebalance trade, and the overcrowded strategy is wreaking carnage across hedge funds
Inside the rapid rise and fall of Coatue's quant fund: How a 23-year-old Wharton wunderkind seized power, alienated employees, and blew a $350 million opportunity
For years, Chase and Citi credit cards offered a generous, under-the-radar benefit that protected customers. And then the bots arrived.
Credit-card super users are searching for answers amid a string of shutdowns from Chase, as billions in costs on lavish rewards pile up
Citadel macro PM George Arzeno was headed to Point72. Now, he's expected to join Balyasny instead.
We compiled a list of books that top Wall Streeters have recommended over the years that have helped them get ahead.
The oil trader Mike Grigsby's departure comes amid a commodities buildout for Balyasny Asset Management.
Hedge funds are embracing an old strategy called 'Portable Alpha' to win investors. Here's how it works — and why the industry is buzzing about it.
Insiders from firms like Man Group and Goldman Sachs break down how the AI revolution is taking shape at some of the world's financial giants.
Despite positive returns, hedge funds like Schonfeld, Point72, Citadel, and Millennium lag the S&P 500's 15% increase in the first half of 2024.
Jain Global starts trading Monday with a reported $5.3 billion and 42 PMs. See BI's running list of the hedge fund's hires with nearly 140 names.
Aaron Weiner, 31, is the latest non-Millennium trading talent to get financial backing from Izzy Englander's hedge-fund giant.
Robert Tau, a top Asia macro trader, and members of his team are expected to join Izzy Englander's Millennium in 2025.
Billionaire Ken Griffin's flagship fund lost money in May while Schonfeld, Point72, Millennium, and more were up.
Data is king for hedge funds, and the generative AI era offers new advantages. See how much the biggest firms are willing to pay for talent
The firm was reportedly aiming to raise only $7 billion but surpassed that total by more than 20%.
Qube Research & Technologies hot streak continues. The quant hedge fund is up 22% in 2024.
Jerome Saragoussi is reuniting with macro trader Ben Melkman at Bridgewater. He'd recently been promoted to head of macro research at Schonfeld.
See our exclusive list of top BD execs, including job titles, work histories, and recruiting styles, at a dozen multimanager hedge funds.
Steve Cohen's Point72 has parted ways with a handful of stockpickers. The fund has 185 investment teams, the majority in fundamental equity.
Business-development execs lure portfolio managers to hedge funds. Their status is rising as funds from Citadel to Point72 vie for trading talent.
April hedge-fund returns are rolling in at Millennium, Balyasny, Point72, Citadel, Schonfeld and more.
Walleye partners Andrew Carney and Mark Zeldis will leave the firm in the coming months. The fund's C-suite has undergone a revamp in recent months.
Jane Street's most profitable trade is the focus of a court fight with Millennium. Details of the $1 billion trade emerged in a court hearing.