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Not many people would want to leave a steady job to start a new business during a global pandemic. For former Fir Tree partner Aaron Stern, that kind of counterintuitive thinking is par for the course.
Stern, who ran distressed, special situations, and event-driven investments at Fir Tree before launching Converium Capital Management last year, says he’s been a contrarian since his father introduced him to investing and let Stern manage the family’s college savings when Stern was still in his teens.
“I’m a contrarian and problem solver by nature,” said Stern, in his first interview about Converium, a multistrategy and opportunistic manager based in Montreal. “I’m drawn to companies and situations that are going through changes. When something bad happens, the folks who are closest to the situation, the experts, tend to be the most negatively impacted and don’t want to touch it.”