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The bearish hedge fund manager chats with Financial News' Deputy Editor Trista Kelley about how he plays these wobbly markets, and how to spot a market dud to sell short.

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Trista Kelley
Features Editor, Financial News
Trista Kelley is the features editor at Financial News, a Dow Jones title, and runs coverage of investment banking, hedge funds and asset management. She has been a London-based financial journalist for more than a decade, where stints included the head of finance and markets at Business Insider UK, consultant for hedge fund clients on the media industry, and various posts at Bloomberg News, most recently team leader for market structure in Europe at the time of the onset of MiFID II regulations. She specialises in coverage of trading, stock markets and short-selling.
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Carson Block
Chief Investment Officer, Muddy Waters Capital
Carson Block is the Chief Investment Officer of Muddy Waters Capital LLC, an activist investment firm. Muddy Waters conducts extensive due diligence based investment research on companies around the globe. Mr. Block is also the founder of Zer0es TV (www.zer0es.tv), an online channel dedicated to short selling related video content. Muddy Waters gained fame in 2011 following the publication of its research on Sino-Forest Corp., which exposed the company as a massive fraud. Activist campaigns conducted by Muddy Waters have led to numerous financial restatements by companies, eight de-listings, over $100 million in restitution paid to investors, and over $50 million paid to regulators. Prior to forming Muddy Waters, Mr. Block was an entrepreneur in China and worked as a lawyer in the Shanghai office of the U.S. law firm Jones Day. He holds a B.S. in business from the University of Southern California and a J.D. from the Chicago-Kent College of Law, where he has also served as an adjunct professor.
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