Benn Eifert
Benjamin Eifert is an American hedge fund manager. He is the founder and chief investment officer of QVR.[1][2][3]
Biography
Eifert was educated at Stanford University where he obtained a bachelor's degree in Economics and a PhD in Economics at UC Berkeley.[4][5] He began his career on the Wells Fargo proprietary trading desk, which later spun out into a hedge fund called Overland Advisors. He then started the hedge fund Mariner Coria at Mariner Investment Group with Jonathan Loflin which "exploits mispricings linked to structured products and derivatives end-user flows".[6][7]
QVR has been mentioned in several publications, including Institutional Investor, CNBC[8] MSN[9] Bloomberg[10] and Financial Times[11] as having been on the other side of blowups of risky hedge fund positioning during March 2020. [12] Bloomberg noted that QVR's absolute return strategy generated more than 50% returns in March 2020 [13]. Business Insider stated that Newport Beach-based fund of funds PAAMCO backed Eifert's QVR in 2017. [14]
References
- ↑ Douglas MacMillan; Yeganeh Torbati (2021-02-09). "How the rich got richer: Reddit trading frenzy benefited Wall Street elite". The Washington Post. Washington, D.C. ISSN 0190-8286. OCLC 1330888409. Unknown parameter
|orig-date=ignored (help) - ↑ "QVR Advisors CIO Says Movement Back to Trading Commissions 'Hard to See'". finance.yahoo.com. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ Rekenthaler, John. "Five Signs Your Investment is Actually Speculation". Morningstar UK. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ "Benn Eifert, Qvr LLC: Profile and Biography". Bloomberg.com. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ "CBOE RMC US". www.cboermcus.com. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ Levy, Rachael. "A $10 billion hedge fund investor is backing a new launch". Business Insider. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ "Benn Eifert - CypherHunter". www.cypherhunter.com. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ "The big problem is people being pitched extraordinary returns on a low-risk or risk-free basis, says QVR's Eifert". CNBC. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ "The big problem is people being pitched extraordinary returns on a low-risk or risk-free basis, says QVR's Eifert". MSN. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ "Transcript: Benn Eifert on the Mania That Was Even Bigger Than Meme Stocks". Bloomberg.com. 2022-08-01. Retrieved 2022-09-07.
- ↑ https://www.ft.com/content/4916c465-99ec-46f4-a889-df845ad1bcd2
- ↑ https://www.institutionalinvestor.com/article/b1m6kkzscgqrl0/How-to-Lose-a-Billion-Dollars-Without-Really-Trying
- ↑ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-04-08/qvr-advisors-flagship-volatility-fund-gains-over-50-in-march#xj4y7vzkg
- ↑ https://www.businessinsider.com/paamco-backs-benn-eiferts-qvr-advisors-launch-2017-8
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