Markets may be recovering on Friday but they’re as volatile now as they have been during full-blown crises. Investors have fled from risky bets to safe havens, hammering banks’ share prices in the process. But not everyone loses money when turmoil hits. Some, like 36 South, are set up to profit from it. The London-based hedge fund’s Black Swan strategy gained 234% in the chaos following the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The fund capitalises on complacency. It can buy protection against volatility and sudden price moves cheaply, setting what it calls “volatility traps,” and then sell it back to
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