HSBC, Standard Chartered - The Big Short's Steve Eisman is shorting these banks

Steve Eisman, who was played by the actor Steve Carell in the Oscar-winning film about the sub-prime mortgage meltdown, was one of several managers who ran a fund at Neuberger Berman that β€˜shorted’ Royal Bank of Scotland, Lloyds and Barclays.

But now he is in charge of his own fund at the New York firm, and is targeting two more British banks – Standard Chartered and HSBC – both of which have a focus on Hong Kong.

(Source - This Is Money)

Eisman has been covering mostly financial services companies since the beginning of his analyst career:

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