Jane Street and Auckland whiz kid Aarav Gupta: Why trading giant has its eye on 16-year-old

Reporter·NZ Herald·17 Oct, 2026 09:00 PM6 mins to read‌Aarav Gupta is just 16 but already studying maths and physics at the University of Auckland and planning to win a place at the heart of the global finance system with Jane Street, one of the world's biggest trading firms.At 16, Aarav Gupta is too young to drink with his University of Auckland classmates, but old enough to have been flown to Hong Kong by one of the world’s richest trading firms to learn how it makes billions of dollars. Leaving school last year at 15 with a university