Jim Chanos: Ten lessons from the financial crisis

Friday, November 6th, 2009

Jim Chanos is a legendary American hedge fund manager and president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City investment company focused on short selling. He rose to fame in the 1980s as a short seller who had a knack for spotting stocks what he thought to be overvalued. After working as an analyst in several firms, he founded Kynikos (Greek for “cynic”) as a firm specializing in short selling.

This post, courtesy of Clusterstock, features a slideshow Chanos presented at the annual Virginia Value Investing Conference. The slides highlight in an easy-to-read format ten lessons from the financial crisis – lesson investors might already have forgotten.

Source: John Carney, Clusterstock, November 3, 2009.

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Jim Chanos in the Spotlight

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

James Chanos is a legendary American hedge-fund manager and president and founder of Kynikos Associates, a New York City investment company focused on short selling. He rose to fame in the 1980s as a short seller who had a knack of spotting stocks he considered to be overvalued. After working as an analyst at several firms, he founded Kynikos (Greek for “cynic”) as a firm specializing in short selling.

This post features Chanos being interviewed by Rob Johnson of New Deal 2.0 – a one-stop shop for current news, fresh insight, and sharp analysis of the country’s fiscal crisis.

This is good stuff – click here for a Verbalink transcript.

Source: New Deal 2.0, August 2009.

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