A new leaf: why a hedge fund manager bought a bank
Andy Redleaf founded a $6 billion hedge fund. Now he runs a small community bank
In many ways, Andy Redleaf was a quintessential hedge fund manager. A Yale University maths graduate, he traded options at Gruntal & Co – alongside investing legend-to-be Steven Cohen – and in the Chicago options-trading pits before co-founding Deephaven Capital Management in 1994 and then Whitebox Advisors in 2000. At Whitebox, he predicted the subprime crisis and subsequent economic recovery
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