Short-Sellers Who Didn’t Blow 2016

It was a tough year to launch short-biased hedge funds — but these three ended the year in the black.

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Illustration by Kimberly Lum.

It all started so rosy.

The market’s precipitous fall during the first few months of 2016 suggested the time was ripe to launch short-biased hedge funds, whose ranks had diminished in recent years.

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