Matt Peluse is the CEO of Esulep Management, a Chicago based Hedge Fund and the #1 absolute returns manager in the world. In this discussion, we talk about trading war stories, his approach to the financial markets, his secrets to keeping calm when under extreme duress, options as investments, the current state of the markets, and how he became the #1 absolute returns manager in the world.
Afam was born on the south-side of Chicago. He graduated cum laude from Harvard University with a degree in psychology and played on the 1997 Ivy league championship-winning football team. Afam is also a Stanford Law graduate where he served as VP of the Black Law Students’ association, he was a two time public interest fellow, and a mentor in the school’s public interest mentor program. Afam forwent the prestigious, lucrative life of an attorney to run the GEANCO Foundation, a philanthropic health & education organization he co-founded with his father.