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Adam Rodman Benedicte Gravrand, Opalesque Geneva for New Managers:

A hedge fund manager, who last year was one of Forbes’ "30-under-30 in Finance," talks about his Texas-based global opportunistic fund, which he launched in late 2013.

Adam Rodman started in the finance industry in 2007, out of college, at Bank of America’s investment banking division. At that time, "every young college grad who liked finance thought they could be the next private equity or M&A tycoon," he said during an Opalesque TV interview with Matthias Knab. But the housing bubble was beginning to burst.

All the finance professionals he was talking to at the time thought the subprime crisis would be contained. But it was when he first met Mark Hart and two of his partners at a wedding’s rehearsal dinner in Texas that he found not everyone concurred. "This was end of 2007, beginning of 2008, and so at this little roundtable, down here in Dallas, I was told that Bear Stearns and Lehman would go bankrupt over the coming months, things would not be contained and that the next problems would lead to an European sovereign crisis."

Later, he moved from New York to Texas to work for ......................

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