Risk managers must often go against the grain of popular opinion, and Tanya Styblo Beder is a contrarian to the tips of her fire-engine-red fingernails.
Consider this: At a time when many Wall Street luminaries -- and wanna-bes -- are abandoning their corner offices to start their own hedge funds, Beder decided in May to head in the opposite direction, joining Citigroup after more than four years at Caxton Associates, Bruce Kovner’s supersecret global macro hedge fund.
