Balyasny hires former Nebula CIO Limin Yang
Former Nebula Research and Development Chief Investment Officer Limin Yang has been hired by Balyasny Asset Management, according to a report by eFinancialCareers. Yang served as CIO at the New York-based statistical arbitrage firm from August 2022 until September 2025, according to his LinkedIn profile. He recently joined Balyasny, which declined to comment on the appointment. Nebula was founded…
Balyasny Asset Management has recently added Limin Yang, a former CIO at Nebula Research and Development, to its team, according to an eFinancialCareers report. Yang's tenure at Nebula spanned from August 2022 to September 2025. The New York-based statistical arbitrage firm was established in 2019 by Michael Graves, a former quantitative portfolio manager at Cubist Systematic Strategies.
Following Graves' untimely death in 2022, his wife took over the company's management. In a statement, Balyasny declined to comment on Yang's appointment. Prior to Nebula, Yang held senior quantitative investment roles at BlackRock's alternative asset management team and Laurion Capital Management, where he also served as a proprietary trader at Credit Suisse.
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