Hedge fund manager Boaz Weinstein, the founder of Saba Capital, has garnered a lot of attention in the last couple of months.
That's because Weinstein has been identified as one of the people that got on the other side of JP Morgan's disastrous $2 billion trading loss earlier this year.
Brilliant stuff, and it gets better...
We've learned that aside from being a legendary derivatives trader, Weinstein is also a chess prodigy with a killer personal life.
Weinstein was born in the United States but he has Israeli roots.
His mother is Israeli and his dad is American.
Weinstein was born in the United States, but he says he's an Israeli in his heart.
Neither of his parents worked on Wall Street, but his older sister is currently a top hedge fund recruiter.
His older sister Ilana, IDW Group founder and CEO, is one of the top hedge fund recruiters.
His father Stanford Weinstein ran an insurance brokerage firm in Brooklyn and his mother Giselle Weinstein worked in the Foreign Office in Jerusalem for a short period of time.
He attended the prestigious Stuyvesant High School.
He grew up in the Upper West Side of Manhattan and attended Stuyvesant High School.
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