The LSE Directory / Fintech founders
Benn Eifert is the co-founder, managing partner, and co-CIO of QVR Advisors, a San Francisco boutique asset manager specializing in quantitative volatility and derivatives strategies. He previously co-founded the relative-value hedge fund Mariner Coria (seeded with $150 million on the Mariner Investment Group platform), was head of quantitative research and a derivatives trader on Wells Fargo's proprietary trading desk (later Overland Advisors), and began his career as an emerging-markets macroeconomist at the World Bank; he holds a PhD in economics from UC Berkeley and has taught in Berkeley Haas's Masters in Financial Engineering program. On X, where his profile showed roughly 119.9K followers as of mid-2026, he is a widely followed voice on derivatives market structure, dealer flows, and the risks of retail options strategies and structured products, and he is a recurring guest on Bloomberg's Odd Lots and other markets podcasts.
