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Michael James Burry (/ ˈ b ɜːr i /; born June 19, 1971) [2] is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He founded the hedge fund Scion Capital, which he ran from 2000 until 2008 before closing it to focus on his personal investments.
In 2011, Snurf LLC, a web investment company founded by Silicon Investor's original owner Brad Dryer (also known as Brad Fire), acquired the site. In January 2013, Knight Sac Media Holdings Corporation acquired Silicon Investor and announced a slew of updates to Silicon Investor, from the display of banner advertisements to signed-in users, to ...
Michael Burry (M.D. 1997) – founder of the Scion Capital LLC hedge fund, [127] portrayed by Christian Bale in the 2015 film The Big Short; Kelly Campbell (B.S. 2000) – president of Hulu [128] Monroe J. Carell, Jr. (B.S. 1959) – former chairman and CEO of Central Parking Corporation [129]
Warren Buffett is arguably the world’s most famous investor, and his investment moves are closely followed. Each quarter, the company he runs, Berkshire Hathaway, discloses its current holdings ...
Thrive Capital itself, which now has $14 billion in assets under management, according to SEC filings, was seeded by General Catalyst and the firm’s cofounder, Joel Cutler.
AXIS Capital Holdings Limited is the holding company for AXIS group of companies. It offers various risk transfer products and services through subsidiaries and branch networks in Bermuda , the United States, Canada, Europe and Singapore.
In May 1987, Watsa re-organized Markel Financial Holdings Limited and renamed it Fairfax Financial Holdings Limited (FAIRFAX: short for "fair, friendly acquisitions"). From 1985 to the end of 2010, the firm had a compound growth rate of approximately 25% in book value per share (per year), it is about 243 times what Fairfax began with in 1985.
Paulson & Co. Inc. was established by John Paulson, its founder and president, in 1994. Paulson has invested in a number of undervalued companies that are acquisition targets, aiming to increase the bid price on these companies as a large shareholder. In 1997, Paulson, which owned a 6.2% stake in Washington National Corp., opposed PennCorp Financial Group Inc.'s $400 mil