Investment banks may be pruning and shrinking their headcount, but the biggest multistrategy hedge funds are still out there, hiring. Get Morning Coffee ☕ in your inbox. Sign up here.Newly filed US regulatory reports for 10 of the biggest funds (Citadel, Millennium, Balyasny, Point72, Verition, Schonfeld, Walleye, Eisler and Exoduspoint) reveal that the top funds now employ a combined 15,665 people in total, of whom 7,103 are investment staff. In combination, they're like a small investment bank circa 2006. They're still growing. In the past year, Citadel, Milllennium, ExodusPoint, Point72 and Balyasny alone have added 1,663 people in total.