David Einhorn Has A Sense Of Humor

May 11, 2009 RSS Feed Print
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Just a quick bit from this WSJ story on Greenlight Capital's David Einhorn. If you'll remember, Einhorn is the poker-playing, short-selling hedge funder who famously called the demise of Lehman Bros. Looks like he got burned along with lots of other shorts in the now-infamous Volkswagen short squeeze late last year. But at least Greenlight gets credit for some dry wit.

From the WSJ:

Hedge-fund manager David Einhorn (left), of New York’s Greenlight Capital, in a recent investor letter listed in a table the internal rate of return of 14 positions he closed in the first quarter. A bearish bet on jewelry retailer Zale generated a return of 92% and another on U.S. Bancorp returned 78%, Greenlight said in the May 1 letter. Then there were investments in companies such as Dr Pepper Snapple Group and Aldar Properties that generated losses of 46% and 91%, respectively, it continued.

But for the by now infamous Volkswagen trade, which dealt a punishing blow to hedge-fund managers around the world last year, Greenlight didn’t list a figure. It simply said, “bad.”

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Kirk Shinkle is a senior editor at U.S. News. He writes daily about ups and downs in equity markets, sectors and stocks. Formerly, he covered business and economics on both coasts for Investor's Business Daily.

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