Alpha Exchange

Fascinated by markets at a very young age, Ben Melkman has spent his investing career thinking through the intersection ... Read more

There is but one Convexity Maven in the world, a moniker that belongs uniquely to Harley Bassman. A 35 year career in f... Read more

In a matter of hours in 1999, Harry Markopolos determined that Bernard Madoff’s returns were not real. Over the course ... Read more

Armed with a Ph.D. in Theoretical Physics, Vineer brings a deep understanding of financial mathematics to developing tra... Read more

In the market for global equity volatility, few investors have the magnitude of experience of David Rogers. Starting at ... Read more

Hitting the Street in the bear market days of the late 70’s, Michael Aronstein became quickly engaged in studying the Fe... Read more

Utilizing a framework built over two decades, Alex Kazan is keenly attuned to today’s complex world of geopolitical risk... Read more

At first blush, market volatility and fragility would appear to be two sides of the same coin. But for Ben Bowler and hi... Read more

Managing portfolios over the course of two decades, Mike Green has developed a unique framework for assessing risk and o... Read more

When it comes to equity derivatives, few individuals have traded more options than John Succo.  Across a career in marke... Read more

Earning his chops as a macro economist on the sell-side, Alberto Gallo has seen the pendulum of risk swing from extreme ... Read more

In the mid 1980's, and recently graduated from Marquette University, a young Jim Bianco scored an accidental meeting for... Read more

There’s not much natural intersection between the study of mathematics and Russian literature. But for the ever-curious... Read more

In 1999, as a new century was nearly upon us, the Euro was born and the US tech bubble was in full sway, Louis Gave hung... Read more

Beginning his career in Chicago trading corn futures in the late 1980’s, Eric Peters moved into the sharp elbowed world ... Read more

A gunner’s mate in the Navy and a graduate of Indiana University, Jim Grant ventured to the financial desk at the Baltim... Read more

A nearly 30 year career has given Jon Havice exposure to just about every strategy across the spectrum of asset markets.... Read more

In 1998, Scott Ladner hit the derivatives scene at First Union, just as LTCM was imploding and equity volatility was roc... Read more

Welcome to the first in a special series of the Alpha Exchange in which the 2020 economic and financial crisis is the sp... Read more

Nancy Davis, founder of Quadratic Capital, has spent her entire career trading options of all shapes and sizes and acros... Read more