25 Biggest Activist Short Sellers in the Hedge Fund World

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4. Spruce Point Capital Management (Ben Axler)

Spruce Point Capital Management is an NYC-based activist short seller, founded in 2009 by a renowned short seller, Ben Axler. Before launching his own hedge fund, Ben Axler honed his investment acumen at Credit Suisse and Barclays Capital where he was in charge of M&A deals for main Fortune 500 clients among other duties. According to Activist Insight, Spruce Capital Management was the fifth top short seller by the number of campaigns reporting 37 of them in the period from January 2013 until March 2018, and also the second most successful short-selling activist in 2018. Ben Axler earned a Masters degree in Statistics from Yale University and Bachelor of Arts in Statistics and Bachelor of Science in Marketing and Business Administration from Rutgers College, graduating with Phi Beta Kappa honors and Summa Cum Laude. On Spruce Point Capital Management’s website you can find its recent research reports about companies it is shorting, with the latest one being released yesterday, concerning Axon Enterprise, Inc. (NASDAQ:AAXN). More detail about it you can find in our article – Investors Don’t Find Short Seller’s Claims Credible.

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