PERSON: Mark Spitznagel
Employer
Universa Investments
Position
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Biography
Mark Spitznagel (born March 5, 1971) is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He is the founder, owner, and chief investment officer of Universa Investments, a hedge fund management firm based in Miami, Florida.
He is known as a pioneer in so-called “tail-hedging” or “black swan” investing, an investment strategy intended to provide “insurance-like protection” against stock market crashes.
Spitznagel has a graduate degree in mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and an undergraduate degree from Kalamazoo College.
When he was 16 years old, Spitznagel was apprenticed by 50-year veteran corn and soybean trader Everett Klipp. Spitznagel became an independent pit-trader at the Chicago Board of Trade and later a proprietary trader at Morgan Stanley in New York.
In 1999, Spitznagel and author and financial mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb (who was Spitznagel’s professor at NYU) established the Empirica Capital “tail-hedging” fund.
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He is known as a pioneer in so-called “tail-hedging” or “black swan” investing, an investment strategy intended to provide “insurance-like protection” against stock market crashes.
Spitznagel has a graduate degree in mathematics from the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences at New York University and an undergraduate degree from Kalamazoo College.
When he was 16 years old, Spitznagel was apprenticed by 50-year veteran corn and soybean trader Everett Klipp. Spitznagel became an independent pit-trader at the Chicago Board of Trade and later a proprietary trader at Morgan Stanley in New York.
In 1999, Spitznagel and author and financial mathematician Nassim Nicholas Taleb (who was Spitznagel’s professor at NYU) established the Empirica Capital “tail-hedging” fund.
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