Citadel CEO Ken Griffin speaks during the Semafor World Economy Summit 2025 astatine Conrad Washington connected April 23, 2025 successful Washington, DC.
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Billionaire investor Ken Griffin's hedge funds astatine Citadel person each posted affirmative returns during a volatile 2025, led by the tactical trading fund.
Citadel's multistrategy Wellington fund, its largest, gained 2.5% during the archetypal fractional of the year, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the firm's returns who asked to stay anonymous arsenic the accusation is private. Citadel's tactical trading fund, which combines equities and quantitative strategies, roseate 6.1% during the aforesaid time, the idiosyncratic said.
The cardinal equity money returned 3.1% done the extremity of June, portion its planetary fixed income strategy precocious 5%, the idiosyncratic said.
Citadel declined to comment. The hedge money elephantine had $66 cardinal successful assets nether absorption arsenic of June 1.
The banal marketplace has proven resilient successful the look of President Donald Trump's assertive commercialized warfare and struggle successful the Middle East. The S&P 500 has rebounded from a adjacent 20% sell-off successful April, going connected to people a grounds precocious connected Friday and again connected Monday. The equity benchmark is up much than 5% twelvemonth to date.
Griffin has been captious of Trump's protectionist commercialized policy, calling tariffs a "painfully regressive tax" that hits working-class Americans the hardest. The billionaire besides said Trump's planetary commercialized combat risks spoiling the U.S. "brand" as good arsenic its authorities enslaved market.
Citadel's flagship Wellington money roseate 15.1% past year. Since Citadel's inception successful 1990, the steadfast produced an annualized nett instrumentality of 19.2% done the extremity of May.
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