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‘Passport King’ Builds Quant Trading Fortune

  • Chris Kalin is co-founder of investment firm Arnova Capital
  • Swiss firm made pandemic-era energy bets, shorted GameStop

Arnova Capital is based in Zug, Switzerland.

Photographer: Stefan Wermuth/Bloomberg
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Chris Kalin is best known for turning the niche business of countries offering citizenship to wealthy foreigners into a multibillion-dollar industry, earning him the nickname “Passport King.”

At the same time, he’s quietly built a sizable fortune with a side bet on quantitative trading.