Said Haidar
Said Haidar is a hedge fund manager, macro trader, and Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Haidar Capital Management, a hedge fund investment firm. Prior to founding Haidar Capital Management in 1997, he was Director of the Fixed Income Proprietary Trading Desk at Credit Suisse First Boston, where he oversaw risk management, trading analytics development, and strategy research. Before that, he was Senior Vice President at Lehman Brothers, responsible for quantitative research modeling involving the relative value of futures and options and traded foreign exchange carry. He started his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he developed relative value futures models for bond basis, options-based approach to portfolio insurance.
Said Haidar Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder and Chief Investment Officer
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Director, Fixed Income Proprietary Trading Desk
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Senior Vice President and Director of Quantitative Strategies Group
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Vice President and Director of Quantitative Research in Institutional Futures and Options Division
Academic History
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Ph.D., Economics
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A.B. and A.M., Economics
Haidar was recognized by Bloomberg as one of the Top-Earning Hedge Fund Managers in 2022.
According to Bloomberg, he earned $859 million during that year, putting him in sixth place on the annual ranking.
Haidar's success is due to his conviction that inflation was set to explode globally, which led him to bet big that interest rates would climb rapidly. The hedge fund's 193% return for investors was a result of the surge in inflation that led to the most aggressive central bank tightening campaign in a generation.
EARLY CAREER
At Credit Suisse, he was involved in all aspects of trading businesses involving relative value government trading, basis trading, mortgage treasury arbitrage, foreign exchange, and money market trading.
He was responsible for Lehman Brothers' relative value trading strategies involving cash and derivative instruments, swap pricing, structured product designs, and more.
CURRENT APPOINTMENTS
Member, American Economic Association
Member, American Finance Association
Member, Econometric Society
Member, Financial Studies Association
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Haidar has been featured in various financial media outlets and publications.
He has appeared in BNN Bloomberg, Hedgeweek, Business Insider, Institutional Investor, Entrepreneur, and New York Post, among others.