Mark Spitznagel (born March 5, 1971) is an American hedge fund manager and derivatives trader. Spitznagel is the owner and Chief Investment Officer of the Santa Monica, California-based hedge fund management company Universa Investments, L.P., which he founded in 2007[1][2][3][4][5]. Universa specializes in equity options trading[2][5] and has approximately $2 billion under management[2][4]. He has been an independent pit-trader at the Chicago Board of Trade[2][3][5], the head of equity options in a proprietary trading group at Morgan Stanley in New York[5], and the head trader at hedge fund Empirica Capital LLC in Greenwich and New York (President and partner with Nassim Nicholas Taleb)[5][6]. Empirica was reported to have made a 60% return in 2000 and lower (though unconfirmed) returns from 2001 to 2004[1][2]. Spitznagel received an M.S. in Mathematics from the Courant Institute of
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