Jim Chanos
Jim Chanos is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kynikos Associates, the world’s largest exclusive short-selling investment firm. Chanos is a legendary short seller known for his bearish bets against Enron and Tesla. Throughout his investment career, Chanos has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters; among them Baldwin-United, Commodore International, Coleco, Integrated Resources, Boston Chicken, Sunbeam, Conseco and Tyco International. He is a Lecturer in Finance and a Becton Fellow at the Yale School of Management, where he teaches a class on the history of financial fraud.
Jim Chanos Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder
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Lecturer in the Practice of Management
Academic History
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B.A., Economics and Political Science
Chanos opened Kynikos Associates in 1985 to implement investment strategies he had uncovered while beginning his Wall Street career as a financial analyst with Paine Webber, Gilford Securities, and Deutsche Bank.
He closed his hedge fund late last year and converted it to a family office and advisory business.
His decision came after years of underperformance where short bets including Tesla didn’t work.
Chanos is best known for calling the collapse of energy trading company Enron.
A master short seller, his celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was dubbed by Barron’s as "the market call of the decade, if not the past fifty years."
He has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters; among them Baldwin-United, Commodore International, Coleco, Integrated Resources, Boston Chicken, Sunbeam, Conseco and Tyco International.
COMMUNITY INVOLVEMENT
Chairman, Coalition of Private Investment Companies
MEDIA & SPEAKING
Chanos has testified before Congress and provided comments to regulations proposed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and the Financial Services Authority in the United Kingdom.
His views on the lessons from the crisis, capital markets regulation, and investment strategies, among other topics, are regularly covered by news organizations worldwide.
He has been featured in Forbes, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Fortune, CNBC, Reuters, CNN, Barron's, Business Insider, and Yahoo! Finance.