Brown to join AQR Capital

Applied Quantitative Research Capital, a $37.5 billion Greenwich, Connecticut-based hedge fund, has hired Aaron Brown as a risk manager. Brown is due to start in late June. He joins from Morgan Stanley in New York, where he was head of credit risk architecture.

Before Morgan Stanley, Brown worked in risk management at Citigroup, Rabobank and JPMorgan. He also wrote The Poker Face of Wall Street, a discussion of gambling and investing, published in March 2006.

The hire is the latest in a series