Prologue Capital, the $775 million macro hedge fund run by David Lofthouse and Graham Walsh, is closing after more than a decade as clients pulled their money amid poor performance. “Last year we started well but we got the big political events wrong, it’s as simple as that,” Walsh said in an emailed statement Wednesday.

Debra Biagi was the assistant to the chairman at HB Nitkin Group, a family-owned real estate management and development firm in Greenwich, Conn.. The job gave her lots of responsibility and her boss must have trusted her a lot.