A short-seller is a gumshoe who roots out a particular story about a specific company and brings it to light. In this way, a short-seller is similar to an investigative journalist. Fahmi Quadir, the founder and CIO of Safkhet Capital, is known as “the Assassin.” Her notoriety proceeds her: Among her most well-known bets include short-selling Wirecard AG and Valeant. In today’s conversation with Qaudir — recorded at our live show in London at Wilton’s Music Hall — she dishes on what life is like for a short-seller, especially one as famous as her. In her mind, short-selling is only getting harder; it’s a corner of finance that is facing an existential crisis and one whose value is questioned in what she calls a “golden age of fraud.” She also tells us, that for the first time ever, she is going long with a focus on Korea that has nothing to do with the AI boom. (Source: Bloomberg)
