Profile
Dr. Benjamin P.
Eifert is a Managing Partner & Co-Chief Investment Officer at QVR LLC.
Dr. Eifert was previously Co-founder & Co-Portfolio Manager of Mariner Coria in New York.
Before that he was Head of Quantitative Research and Derivatives Trader for the Wells Fargo proprietary trading desk, which became Overland Advisors.
He has taught extensively in the Masters in Financial Engineering program in the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley, and started his career as an emerging markets macroeconomist at the World Bank.
He holds a PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley and BA in Economics and International Relations from Stanford.
Benn Eifert active positions
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QVR LLC
QVR LLC Investment ManagersFinance QVR seeks to generate returns by taking exposure to various components of the volatility complex. Their investment strategy is a data-driven, options-focused strategy across absolute return, risk premium and hedging. | Chief Executive Officer | 01/04/2017 |
Former positions of Benn Eifert
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Coastland Capital LLC
Coastland Capital LLC Investment ManagersFinance Coastland Capital generally seeks to generate positive risk adjusted returns and preserve capital with low correlation to major asset classes such as equities and fixed income. The firm constructs diversified multi-strategy portfolios designed to extract high current yields, capital gains and undervalued optionality. Coastland Capital currently focuses on relative value trades intended to take advantage of mispricing across a company’s capital structure (senior debt, subordinated debt and preferred and common stock). The firm invests primarily in investment-grade and non-investment-grade debt securities, equities, and other assets, as well as equity and interest rate derivatives and certain commodity futures. Typically, there are no limits on the types of investment instruments Overland may utilize, and there are no formal diversification constraints. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 01/05/2013 |
Evolution Capital Management LLC
Evolution Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Evolution seeks to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns for their partners and the firm’s long-term growth. The firm invests heavily in technology, operations, and professional training underpinning these business units. This ongoing commitment to innovation and development has been key to their management’s successful performance through volatile markets and varied economic environments. | Corporate Officer/Principal | 01/02/2010 |
The World Bank
The World Bank SupranationalGovernment Provides loans to developing countries | Corporate Officer/Principal | 01/06/2005 |
Mariner Investment Group LLC
Mariner Investment Group LLC Investment ManagersFinance MIG specializes in fixed income relative value and credit strategies which focus primarily on interest rate and liquid credit markets. The firm manages investments across a variety of single-strategy hedge funds, multi-strategy hedge funds, funds-of-hedge funds and other alternative vehicles. | Portfolio Manager-Equities | - |
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Mariner Investment Group LLC
Mariner Investment Group LLC Investment ManagersFinance MIG specializes in fixed income relative value and credit strategies which focus primarily on interest rate and liquid credit markets. The firm manages investments across a variety of single-strategy hedge funds, multi-strategy hedge funds, funds-of-hedge funds and other alternative vehicles. | Finance |
Stanford University
Stanford University Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
University of California, Berkeley
University of California, Berkeley Other Consumer ServicesConsumer Services Functions as a College/University | Consumer Services |
Evolution Capital Management LLC
Evolution Capital Management LLC Investment ManagersFinance Evolution seeks to deliver superior risk-adjusted returns for their partners and the firm’s long-term growth. The firm invests heavily in technology, operations, and professional training underpinning these business units. This ongoing commitment to innovation and development has been key to their management’s successful performance through volatile markets and varied economic environments. | Finance |
Coastland Capital LLC
Coastland Capital LLC Investment ManagersFinance Coastland Capital generally seeks to generate positive risk adjusted returns and preserve capital with low correlation to major asset classes such as equities and fixed income. The firm constructs diversified multi-strategy portfolios designed to extract high current yields, capital gains and undervalued optionality. Coastland Capital currently focuses on relative value trades intended to take advantage of mispricing across a company’s capital structure (senior debt, subordinated debt and preferred and common stock). The firm invests primarily in investment-grade and non-investment-grade debt securities, equities, and other assets, as well as equity and interest rate derivatives and certain commodity futures. Typically, there are no limits on the types of investment instruments Overland may utilize, and there are no formal diversification constraints. | Finance |
The World Bank
The World Bank SupranationalGovernment Provides loans to developing countries | Government |
QVR LLC
QVR LLC Investment ManagersFinance QVR seeks to generate returns by taking exposure to various components of the volatility complex. Their investment strategy is a data-driven, options-focused strategy across absolute return, risk premium and hedging. | Finance |
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