Brevan Howard Has a Plan to Outlast Its Billionaire Founder

Alan Howard is synonymous with the hedge fund he founded nearly two decades ago. His chief executive officer is on a mission to change that.

Aron Landy, who replaced the billionaire at the helm of Brevan Howard just over a year ago, is shifting the famed macro investing firm away from being a founder-led hedge fund toward a broader financial-services operation, readying it to survive beyond the man whose name is above the door.

“That is, in a nutshell, my goal,” Landy, 58, told Bloomberg in a rare interview. “To continue to move the firm away from the typical ...