Jim Chanos
Jim Chanos is President and famed fund manager of Kynikos Associates. Throughout his investment career, Chanos has identified and sold short the shares of numerous well-known corporate financial disasters. A master short seller, Chanos’ celebrated short-sale of Enron shares was dubbed by Barron’s as "the market call of the decade, if not the past fifty years." More recently, the media has noted his prescience in alerting finance ministers and others about the global financial crisis well before it occurred. His views on the lessons from the crisis, capital markets regulation, and investment strategies, among other topics, are regularly covered by news organizations worldwide.
Jim Chanos Professional Experience / Academic History
Professional Experience
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Founder
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Lecturer in the Practice of Management
Academic History
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BA, Economics and Political Science
- Chanos was born and raised in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
- He began his Wall Street career as a financial analyst with Paine Webber, Gilford Securities, and Deutsche Bank.
- He is the President of the board of trustees of The Browning School.
- He serves as a trustee at The Nightingale-Bamford School and The New-York Historical Society.
- He has testified before Congress and provided comments to regulations proposed by the U.S. SEC and the FSA in the U.K.
- He has appeared as a guest on Real Vision.
- He teaches a course on the history of financial market fraud at Wisconsin and Yale
- teaches 5 separate fraud models in the course
- teaches that the "fraud cycle" follows the business and economic cycle with a lag
- Really Good Indicator of Fraud: Executives are Selling share and leaving the firm
- Teaches Bethany McLean's legal fraud model: when a company does everything legally, but with an intent to deceive
- Recommends the following books:
- The Seven Signs Of Ethical Collapse by Maryann Jennings
- The Best Way To Rob A Bank Is To Own One by William E. Black