Said N. Haidar is a graduate of Harvard College (AB in Economics) and Harvard University (AM in Economics). He went on to study in Ph.D. program at the University of Chicago where he completed all requirements other than a dissertation.

From 1986 to 1989, Mr. Haidar was a Vice President and Quantitative Research Manager in the Institutional Futures and Options Department at Drexel Burnham Lambert where he was responsible for quantitative analysis in listed products. From 1989 to 1994, Mr. Haidar was a Senior Vice President and Head of the Quantitative Strategies Group and later Head of the Derivative Strategies Group at Lehman Brothers. The Quantitative Strategies Group was responsible for relative value research in listed derivatives as well as risk management in OTC foreign exchange and commodity products. The Derivative Strategies Group was responsible for risk management, pricing of embedded options in structured products as well as relative value ideas in the Financial Products Group at Lehman.

From 1994 to 1997, Mr. Haidar worked at Credit Suisse First Boston as a Director and Head of Proprietary Trading Research. He helped create a multui-market fixed income proprietary trading desk, built risk and trading analytics as was involved in all aspects of managing the business. In 1997, he founded Haidar Capital Management, an alternative asset manager that specializes in global macro and quantitative investing. Clients of Haidar Capital Management LLC may have positions in securities or markets or utilize strategies that are discussed in this blog.

Mr. Haidar is a member of the American Economic Association, the American Finance Associtation, the Econometrica Society and the Financial Studies Association

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