Who We Are

The D. E. Shaw Group combines extraordinary people with a rigorous approach to return and risk assessment to produce distinctive results in investment management and technology development. Headquartered in New York and with offices worldwide, the group encompasses a number of closely related entities with approximately $16 billion in aggregate capital.

Since its organization in 1988, the firm has earned an international reputation for financial innovation and technological leadership. Today, the D. E. Shaw group is a major participant in many of the world’s capital markets, trading a variety of financial instruments in both the major industrialized nations and a number of emerging markets. Activities range from quantitative and fundamentally driven investment management to the development and financing of technology-oriented business ventures.

The D. E. Shaw group has approximately 500 employees, including a disproportionate number of the world’s leading computer scientists, mathematicians, system architects, and financial engineers.