Posts tagged: Crispin Odey

Is the tide turning for Odey the Brexiteer? - another new series...

Thursday, 5 August 2021, 6:44 pm

Charming Crispin's firm has just taken out a short bet against AMC Entertainment Holdings, the meme stock driven to astronomical highs by the Wallstreetbets retail punter crowd.

Well, it isn't the famous Brexiteer himself taking the short position but rather his colleague, James Hanbury, one of the fund managers at Odey Asset Management. Below is the the link to the FT piece on the move...

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Is the tide turning for Odey the Brexiteer? - Part 42

Thursday, 5 November 2020, 2:45 pm

So farewell Crispin Odey, who is stepping down from the eponymous investment firm he founded almost three decades ago.

That seemed to be the line most of the national press focused on when it was announced earlier this week. And I guess it's not too surprising given the somewhat erractic performance of his Odey European Fund over the last decade and other, erm, issues...

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The German payment giant that begins with W, the spinners and the hedge fund manager...

Tuesday, 30 June 2020, 10:51 am

I thought I would let the venerable Financial Times bathe in the glory of its Wirecard investigation for a few days before publishing this post.

I have to admit the FT's series of articles on Wirecard is one of the finest pieces of financial journalism I have witnessed since I began my career on The Daily Telegraph's City desk all those years ago...

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Tome from top hedgie sells out...

Monday, 30 March 2020, 4:35 pm

Was anybody aware that Sir Paul Marshall, one of Britain's most sucessful hedge fund managers, had written a book?

Well, Betaville certainly wasn't until intreprid hack Tom Teodorczuk at Financial News discovered the founder Marshall Wace, which manages about £40 billion, published the book a few weeks ago. Below is a link to Tom's scoop:..

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HSBC's hedgie leaders and laggards: Saba Capital tops the leaderboard; Lansdowne Princay Fund is Europe's worst performer

Thursday, 26 March 2020, 10:10 pm

Ping! HSBC's HedgeWeekly publication arrives with the performance figures of Europe's best and worst performing hedge funds.

Now, given Crispin Odey has been a big bear since 2015 and this weekend the old buffer told Betaville he had made £115 million in March you might expect his flagship fund to be the best performer...

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Is the tide turning for Odey the Brexiteer? - part 38

Wednesday, 18 March 2020, 11:07 am

So, according to Bloomberg, Crispin Odey's uber-bearishly positioned fund is already up by 20pc this month.

Now, it would be easy to take pop at the old cassandra for shorting the market into a public health crisis but the thing is he has been directionally short for the last four years and, as a result, suffered excruciating losses over the last five years...

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