Scott Bessent

Formal First Name

Scott

Dates

1962 - present

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Scott Bessent is the Founder and CEO of Key Square Capital Management, a global macro hedge fund. Bessent is a prominent investor and widely acknowledged to be one of the world’s most highly respected macro hedge fund managers. Throughout his career, Bessent helped orchestrate some of the most legendary bets in market history. Most recently, he was Chief Investment Officer of Soros Fund Management, the $30 billion family office of billionaire George Soros. He was a pivotal figure on the George Soros team who helped the Quantum Fund make $1 billion, shorting sterling ahead of the UK's withdrawal from the ERM. As Soros’s CIO, he was also dubbed as ‘The Man Who Broke the Bank of Japan’ by the Wall Street Journal, making approximately $3.5 billion on the Abenomics trade from 2012-2015. Bessent is profiled in the book on macro investors, Inside the House of Money, and features prominently in Sebastian Mallaby’s history of hedge funds, More Money than God.

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	Asset Management
	Financials

Strategies

	Global Macro Strategy
	Macro

Terms

	Investing
	Investment Management

SOROS FUND MANAGEMENT

Bessent was one of the longest-running members of one of the most successful hedge fund groups of all time, Soros Asset Management.
He worked at Soros Fund Management from 1991-2000. By the age of 29, Bessent was running Soros' European fund.
He was a pivotal figure on the George Soros team who helped the Quantum Fund make $1 billion, shorting sterling ahead of the UK's withdrawal from the ERM.
As Soros’s CIO, he was also dubbed as ‘The Man Who Broke the Bank of Japan’ by the Wall Street Journal, making approximately $3.5 billion on the Abenomics trade from 2012-2015.

CAREER

Bessent began his career at Brown Brothers Harriman, he moved to the Olayan Group, a Saudi family office where he reported directly to Hutham Olayan.
From there, he became the first analyst for acclaimed short seller Jim Chanos at Kynikos Associates.
His mentors include Jim Rogers, Jim Chanos, Stan Druckenmiller and George Soros.
He also served as an Adjunct Professor at Yale University, where he taught economic history.

RECOGNITION

The Wall Street Journal hailed him as “one of the most powerful investors on Wall Street.”
Bessent was featured in Crain's “40 Under 40,” which proclaimed, “If hedge fund managers are the rock stars of Wall Street, Scott Bessent is the front man.
The Australian Financial Review noted that “In the world of macro hedge funds, Scott Bessent could be regarded as royalty.

PHILANTHROPY

He is a trustee of Rockefeller University where he chairs the investment committee.
He is a member of the executive committee, the Yale University Council and Classical American Homes Preservation Trust.
He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

MEDIA & SPEAKING

Bessent is a frequent speaker on economic and investment panels around the globe.
He has been featured or quoted in Bloomberg, Forbes, Reuters, Business Insider, Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, MarketWatch, Fox Business, and more.
He has also appeared in Real Vision.

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