Four Elements Capital is one of the latest hedge fund ventures to be launched using an existing team from within a bank. In this case it is a commodities team, with considerable experience of working together, that left BNP Paribas and JP Morgan to make use of the opportunities and flexibility that exist within a hedge fund structure.
Four Elements is being led by Lionel Semonin, a former managing director with BNP’s global commodity investor group. He and his team have left London to move to S