The Anti-Quant

Andrew Redleaf’s Whitebox Advisors is out to show pension funds that quantitative investing is not as productive as it claims to be.

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By Irwin Speizer

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Andrew Redleaf: Wants to prove most academic finance wrong (Photographs by Darin Back)

When the mortgage securities craze was in full throttle in 2007, Andrew Redleaf of Minneapolis-based Whitebox Advisors was among the handful of hedge fund managers who shorted the securities — and cleaned up when they tanked.

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