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Andy Redleaf is the Founding Partner of Whitebox Advisors, a $5.5 billion multi-strategy hedge fund launched in 1999 with primary offices in the metropolitan hubs of Minneapolis, Austin, and Sydney, Australia. Before founding Whitebox, Andy spent twenty years trading options, for two years at Gruntal & Comes mpany alongside Stevie Cohen, fourteen on the CBOE, and five as a Founding Partner at Deephaven Capital Management. He has an irrepressibly creative mind and, alongside his partners, writes one of my favorite manager letters.\xa0

Our conversation covers Andy's nuanced view of the evolution of trading markets and financial instruments over his forty-year career, including arbitrage trading in the 1970s and 80s, unintended consequences of the deregulation of trading commissions, segmentation of market participants, importance of liability management, growth of orphaned securities, and the pending shift from decentralized to centralized market systems over the coming years.

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Show Notes

1:52 \u2013 Andy\u2019s background and the founding of Whitebox

5:34 \u2013 The math of options in the late 70\u2019s, early 80s\xa0

13:44 - The decentralization of markets

16:34 -\xa0 Andy\u2019s transition into trading other strategies

18:31 \u2013 The launch of Whitebox

20:08 \u2013 The meaning of the firm name Whitebox

23:38 \u2013 An example of a transitioning security from one group of investors to another

28:31 \u2013 Has it gotten harder to find arbitrage opportunities

32:29 \u2013 The driver of the financial crisis

32:44 \u2013 Gary Gorton, Misunderstanding Financial Crises: Why Don't We See Them Coming

34:28 \u2013 His purchase of a bank

38:17 \u2013 How he got involved in the structured credit markets

42:39 \u2013 What is that Whitebox does differently from others

47:14 \u2013 Principles that guide the investment activities he likes to take part in

50:03 \u2013 How will the financial system evolve over the next 10 years

55:29 \u2013 Closing questions