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John Arnold – Why The Greatest Natural Gas Trader Walked Away To Pursue Philanthropy | #386

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The Evolution of Sintaurus

legend has it you were down on one knee when Brian Hunter called you up from Amaranth. He was at a hedge fund that was really a farm hedge fund doing a lot of convertible bond arb and some of the more traditional hedge fund strategies, arbitrage strategies. And I think management started to see the numbers that he was putting up and gave him more rope without really understanding the risk he was taking. That became the natural gas story that led to a lot of revelatory oversight for me in the long term.

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