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5 Things I learned from Jaffray Woodriff
Jaffray Woodriff (born April 8, 1969 in Virginia) is the co-founder and CEO of Quantitative Investment Management (QIM), a $3 billion hedge fund. Woodriff founded QIM with Michael Geismar in 2003. Woodriff attended the University of Virginia from 1987 - 1991.
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QIM is one of the world's biggest Managed Futures Funds and is run out of Woodriff's home town of Charlottesville, Virginia. Woodriff uses a "Black Box" statistical approach to making investing decisions.
Forbes listed Woodriff as one of the highest paid fund managers in 2011. In 2012 Jack Schwager's book "Hedge Fund Market Wizards" profiled Woodriff as one of the top hedge fund managers in the world at that time. Woodriff has been critical of stock market structure exploited by High Frequency Traders on his Twitter account.
Personal life
Jaffray Woodriff has been honoured with a US Squash Special Recognition Award for his leadership and substantial contributions to squash in the U.S.A. The building of the University of Virginia’s McArthur Squash Center at Boar’s Head Sports Club, where the U.S. Squash Championships was held, was made possible by a donation of $12.4 million from the Quantitative Foundation where Woodriff serves as a trustee. In 2016, Woodriff began partnering with SP@CE, an "innovation infrastructure" based in Charlottesville, VA, and in 2017 announced he would implement SP@CE's plans to build a 140,000 sq.ft. "innovation hub" to support local technology companies and the incubation and development of startups.