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Soros investment chief to depart

Scott Bessent to start his own hedge fund firm, with a $2 billion investment from George Soros's firm

Soros investment chief to depart

Another top investor at George Soros’s firm is leaving.

The billionaire's Soros Fund Management on August 4 said that chief investment officer Scott Bessent would exit at the end of this year to start his own hedge fund firm. Bessent will be the fifth chief investment officer to depart since April 2000, when Stanley Druckenmiller quit to run his own firm.

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