Boaz Weinstein
Founder and Chief Investment Officer
Saba Capital
Boaz Weinstein is the Founder and Chief Investment Officer of Saba Capital Management, a $4.8 billion hedge fund focused on credit relative value strategies, based in New York City. Mr. Weinstein founded Saba in 2009 as a lift-out of the Deutsche Bank proprietary credit trading group he started in 1998. At Saba, Mr. Weinstein leads a team of 50 professionals, with the senior members having worked together for more than a decade.
In 2021, Risk.net named Saba Capital Management Hedge Fund of the Year. In 2023, Institutional Investor named Saba Capital: winner – Activist Hedge Fund Manager of the Year and – Credit-Focused Hedge Fund Manager of the Year.
Previously, Mr. Weinstein worked at Deutsche Bank for eleven years, the last eight years as Managing Director (a title he achieved at age 27). Throughout his career at Deutsche Bank, Mr. Weinstein had dual responsibility for proprietary trading and market making.
In 2008, Mr. Weinstein was promoted to Co Head of Global Credit Trading, overseeing a group of 650 investment professionals. He was also a member of the Global Markets Executive Committee. Mr. Weinstein graduated from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, with a BA in Philosophy. He achieved the title of National Master in chess at age 16.