Michael Burry is an American investor and hedge fund manager. He is best known for predicting the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis and successfully profiting from it by betting against the US housing market.
Burry began his career in medicine, but later studied finance and founded his own investment management firm, Scion Capital, in 2000. He became famous for spotting the risks of the US housing bubble as early as 2005, before the crisis erupted in 2008. He then took short positions in the subprime mortgage market, making huge profits.
Burry is also known for being an investor in undervalued companies and small-cap stocks. In 2015, he announced that he was retiring from hedge fund management to focus on his personal investments.
He was portrayed by actor Christian Bale in the film "The Big Short" (2015), which traces the events leading up to the subprime mortgage crisis.
