{"id":51380,"date":"2016-01-26T08:29:32","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T13:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hedgeco.net\/news\/?p=51380"},"modified":"2016-01-26T08:29:32","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T13:29:32","slug":"noted-short-seller-launches-hedge-fund","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/01\/2016\/noted-short-seller-launches-hedge-fund.html","title":{"rendered":"Noted Short-Seller Launches Hedge Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 After successfully exposing accounting problems with a number of Chinese firms trading on North American stock exchanges, Carson Block has launched a hedge fund. Block and his company, Muddy Waters LLC, gained fame several years ago as they questioned the accounting practices of several Chinese companies and then shorted the stocks. <\/p>\n<p>The new venture is called Muddy Waters Capital LLC, and according to a recent Reuters\u2019 article, the fund will use a combination of activism and long\/short strategies with a slant toward short-selling companies. This bearish slant doesn\u2019t come as a surprise given Block\u2019s history of successfully betting on downside moves in stocks.<\/p>\n<p>The article stated that the fund received an initial investment of $100 million and with the market turmoil we have seen in recent months, it wouldn\u2019t be surprising to see the assets under management growing in the months ahead. <\/p>\n<p>Rick Pendergraft<br \/>\nResearch Analyst<br \/>\nHedgeCoVest<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New York (HedgeCo.net) \u2013 After successfully exposing accounting problems with a number of Chinese firms trading on North American stock exchanges, Carson Block has launched a hedge fund. Block and his company, Muddy Waters LLC, gained fame several years ago [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[919,16,3,16048],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hedge-fund-research","category-hedgeco-networks-press-releases","category-hedgeco-news","category-hedgecovest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51380"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51380\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51381,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51380\/revisions\/51381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hedgeco.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}