NASSIM TALEB

He is

• less a businessman than an epistemologist of randomness
• pioneer of tail risk hedging
• Business model is to safeguard investors from crises

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Positions

• managing director and proprietary trader at Credit SuisseUBS
• derivatives arbitrage trader at Bankers Trust (now Deutsche Bank)
• chief currency derivatives trader for Banque Indosuez
• proprietary trader at BNP Paribas
• independent option market maker on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange

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• currently Principal/Senior Scientific Adviser at Universal Investments
• became financially independent after the crash of 1987
• successful during the financial crisis that began in 2007
• In 2008, Taleb has become an activist for what he called a "black swan society"
• July 2011, Taleb is working with the International Monetary Fun