Said Haidar
Said Haidar is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Haidar Capital Management, a discretionary global macro hedge fund that bets on macroeconomic shifts around the world. Said is a hedge fund manager, macro trader, and authority on financial markets with over 20 years of money management experience. Prior to founding his firm in 1997, he ran various quantitative research groups at major Wall Street banks. 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.
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
Said's high-octane, highly leveraged bets that produce frequent double-digit gains — or losses — put the money manager in a league of his own.
He was recognized by Bloomberg as one of the Top-Earning Hedge Fund Managers in 2022. He earned $859 million during that year, putting him in sixth place on the annual ranking.
His 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.
CURRENT AFFILIATIONS
Member, American Economic Association
Member, American Finance Association
Member, Econometric Society
Member, Financial Studies Association
EARLY CAREER
At Credit Suisse, Said 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.
He started his career at Drexel Burnham Lambert, where he developed relative value futures models for bond basis, options-based approach to portfolio insurance.
MEDIA & PUBLICATIONS
Haidar has been quoted in major publications such as the Wall Street Journal, the Financial Times, Bloomberg, Reuters, and Pensions & Investments.
He has appeared in BNN Bloomberg, CNBC, Business Insider, Institutional Investor, Entrepreneur, and New York Post, among others.