Career
On graduation, he joined the Australian Army for three years, rising to the rank of Captain.
Moving to New York to train in financial services, he worked for Salomon Brothers and Credit Suisse First Boston. Relocating to London with them, he then became Head of Equity Trading at Goldman Sachs.
In 1999 he launched his own hedge fund company, CQS, and has been cited in the press as one of the highest paid people in the City of London.
Hintze was ranked #5 on Financial News’ FN100 Most Influential list in the hedge fund category.
CQS Asset Management, which has been described as "one of the world's leading credit market players" has assets under management reported at $11 billion. The CQS Directional Opportunities Fund, which is managed by Hintze, was ranked #3 on Bloomberg's list of the 100 top-performing large hedge funds for 2012.
CQS was reported to be on the opposite side of the infamous JPMorgan trade by Bruno Iksil, nicknamed the London Whale, in which JPMorgan lost an estimated $2 billion. The total gains by CQS are unknown.
Hintze is credited by veteran economic commentator and journalist Alex Brummer with warning about the state of UK banking, the outlook for the UK housing market, and the scale of toxic-debt on the balance sheets of UK banks.
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