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Right, But Not Solvent: The Lessons of Victor Niederhoffer

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4 weeks ago

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There are maybe a dozen people in the history of this business who genuinely earned the word original. Victor Niederhoffer, who died August 4th at 82 at his home in Weston, Connecticut, was one of them.

If you’re new around here: Vic was the guy. Brighton Beach kid out of a 750-square-foot Brooklyn apartment, son of a cop who became a sociology professor. Harvard undergrad in statistics and economics, University of Chicago finance PhD, assistant professor at Berkeley (where he kept a pet monk...

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