Ken Griffin, Founder and CEO of Citadel, speaks to the Economic Club of New York astatine The Plaza Hotel successful New York City, U.S., November 21, 2024.
Brendan Mcdermid | Reuters
Billionaire capitalist Ken Griffin's flagship hedge money astatine Citadel climbed treble digits successful 2025, navigating a volatile twelvemonth marked by crisp marketplace swings, commercialized tensions and a late-year rebound successful hazard assets.
Citadel's flagship multistrategy Wellington fund, its largest, gained 10.2% successful 2025, according to a idiosyncratic acquainted with the firm's returns who asked to stay anonymous arsenic the accusation is private.
The firm's tactical trading fund, which blends equities with quantitative strategies, roseate 18.6% successful 2025, the idiosyncratic said. Citadel's cardinal equity strategy returned 14.5%, portion its planetary fixed income money precocious 9.4%.
Citadel declined to comment.
The S&P 500 locked successful a 16.4% summation for the year, its 3rd consecutive double-digit yearly advance. That marks an awesome betterment from the rout seen successful aboriginal April following President Donald Trump's sweeping tariffs announcement. At 1 point, the S&P 500 was adjacent connected the cusp of closing successful carnivore marketplace territory.
The hedge money plans to instrumentality astir $5 cardinal of profits earned this twelvemonth to clients successful an effort to bounds superior growth, CNBC's Leslie Picker antecedently reported. The determination is expected to trim assets nether absorption to astir $67 cardinal from astir $72 billion.
Wellington's semipermanent way grounds remains beardown arsenic the money has generated an annualized instrumentality of 19% since its inception successful 1990, the idiosyncratic said.
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