Cove Capital founder and CIO Louis Basger is rejoining hedge fund giant Brevan Howard Submitted By Hugh Leask | 29/10/2020 - 4:48pm Brevan Howard, the high-profile global macro hedge fund manager founded by Alan Howard, has rehired Cove Capital founder and CIO Louis Basger, who previously spent six years at Brevan in Geneva. Before setting up his own Geneva-based manager, Basger was at Brevan Howard Asset Management between 2010 and 2016, initially as a trade analyst and later a portfolio manager for the firm’s main Brevan Howard Master Fund.