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Sander Gerber

Sander Gerber serves as a Distinguished Fellow at JINSA’s Gemunder Center for Defense & Strategy.

Mr. Gerber is Chief Executive Officer and Chief Investment Officer of Hudson Bay Capital, a global investment firm. He has over three decades of investing experience in multiple securities classes and derivatives across a broad range of strategies.

In 2008, Mr. Gerber developed the Gerber Statistic, which was accepted as an innovation complementary to his own work by the late Dr. Harry Markowitz, the Nobel Prize-winning economist and father of Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT). The Gerber Statistic is utilized by Hudson Bay to identify the co-movement of financial assets, enabling early detection of concentration risks and insufficient diversification.

Subsequently, Mr. Gerber and Dr. Markowitz, in a landmark research paper published in The Journal of Portfolio Management, gave further validation to replacing historical correlation in the calculation of covariance with the Gerber Statistic.

The result, as described in Institutional Investor, “leads to outperformance in cumulative return, average geometric return, and Sharpe ratio.”

Mr. Gerber began his investment career in 1991, as a member of the American Stock Exchange working as an equity options market maker. In 1997, he founded Gerber Asset Management to develop and engage in proprietary investment strategies. In late 2005, Mr. Gerber founded Hudson Bay Capital, which concentrates on generating positive returns while maintaining a focus on risk management and capital preservation.

Mr. Gerber is a trustee of the Economic Club of New York, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and an investment committee member of the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany. He served as a member of the Senior Advisory Group to the Director of National Intelligence from 2017-2019 and as a member of the United States Agency for International Development’s Partnership for Peace Fund Advisory Board from 2022-2025. Formerly, he was the Vice Chairman of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, and Chairman of its Investment Committee.

Mr. Gerber graduated cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania, with a BSE in Finance from Wharton and a BA in Humanistic Philosophy from the College of Arts and Sciences.

Publications

No, the PLO Isn’t a Person
The PA Has Only Itself to Blame
How is the PA’s Agenda not Genocide?
To solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: First confront Iran
The Palestinian Authority cannot govern Gaza
Why Bibi Should Listen To His Late Father’s Address
The Corrupt Palestinian Authority Must Not be a Part of Any Saudi-Israel Deal
Biden & Co. Keep Funding Palestinian Terror — in Defiance of Congress
No More ‘Pay to Slay’
Amb. Yousef Al Otaiba deserves a Nobel Peace Prize
U.S. Should Bypass Palestinian Authority to Provide Aid to Gaza
By Renewing Palestinian Aid, America Is Funding Terrorism
Biden’s ‘open door’ to the Palestinian Authority
Is the Biden Administration Planning on Violating the Taylor Force Act, as the PA Continue...
Palestinian Authority Oppresses Palestinians – Here’s How to Help People and B...
Revisiting Sokolow v. PLO Gives Hope to Victims’ Families
PA and Hamas Try to ‘Coronawash’ Their Own Corruption
Abbas’ Palestinian Authority Hurts Everybody
Trump’s Middle East Plan Forces ‘Reality’ on Palestinians, But Meets The...
A Way Forward with Saudi Arabia
Why the U.S. Should Change Its Approach Toward the Palestinian Authority
Lesson Learned in Bahrain
The Palestinians Should Support Greenblatt, Who’s Telling Them the Truth
Blood Money, Not Benevolence: The PLO’s Justification of ‘Pay for Slay’
End Funding of Palestinian Terror
The Palestinian Authority Sponsors Terrorism, and the Taylor Force Act Has Finally Put it ...
Congress is Overdue to Pass the Taylor Force Act
It’s Time for the U.S. to Stop Paying for Palestinian Terrorism
Stop American Aid to the Palestinians Until the Terror Ceases