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For Hedge Fund Stars, Being Right in 2008 Proved to Be a Curse
ByEinhorn, Paulson, and Howard made their names in the crisis, but they faded in the decade that followed.
It was the spring of 2008, and David Einhorn gave the most memorable speech of his career. At a conference in Manhattan, the hedge fund manager took to the stage at the standing-room-only concert hall and delivered a scathing attack on Lehman Brothers. The U.S. investment bank, he said, hadn’t disclosed before that year billions of dollars of assets tied to loans and had incorrectly valued some its mortgage-related assets…
For Hedge Fund Stars, Being Right in 2008 Proved to Be a Curse
