Wall Street's Star Short Seller Hangs Up His Boots

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Wall Street's Star Short Seller Hangs Up His Boots
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Nate Anderson, known for his high-profile bets against companies like Nikola and Adani Group, has retired from activist short selling. He cites the demanding nature of the job and the challenging market conditions for short sellers as reasons for his exit. Anderson's departure leaves a void in the activist short selling space, a strategy that has become increasingly difficult in a bull market.

Nate Anderson , the founder of Wall Street’s top activist short seller Hindenburg , announced this month that he was hanging up his boots. He is just the latest high profile investor to call it quits. Anderson, who was best known for betting against electric-vehicle manufacturer Nikola, Carl Icahn, and India’s Adani Group, blamed the “intensity and focus” of the job.

He first made a name for himself over a decade ago as a bank analyst, releasing a critical report of outsourcing company Connaught, with its chief executive calling his work a “masterful feat of incompetence”. The company filed for bankruptcy less than a year later. In 2016 under the pseudonym Zatarra Research, Earl and fellow short seller Fraser Perring anonymously released a report on Wirecard which brought attention to money laundering and fraud.

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