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Ledley, Mai, and Hockett were featured in the film adaptation of The Big Short, fictionalized with the names Charlie Geller, Jamie Shipley, and Ben Rickert, and played by John Magaro, Finn Wittrock and Brad Pitt. Ledley left Cornwall in 2009 to join a large Boston-based hedge fund.
Mar 2, 2024 · The Big Short also told the story of Charlie Geller, played by John Magaro, and Jamie Shipley, played by Finn Wittrock. The film changed the two men's last names, with Jamie's real name being Mai and Charlie's being Ledley.
- Adam Mckay
- Brad Pitt
- Mark Baum
- Michael Burry
- Jared Vennett
- Jamie Shipley and Charlie Geller
- Ben Rickert
- Mr. Chau
The character of Mark Baum is based on Steve Eisman. Steve Eisman is an investor best known for having shorted the housing market and profiting from the 2007-2008 financial crisis. Steve Eisman made a name for himself on Wall Street. Originally an attorney, he switched gears relatively early in his career to become an analyst at Oppenheimer, a fina...
The character Michael Burry is based on the real Michael Burry. Dr. Michael Burry is a medical doctor by training and an investor and hedge fund manager who predicted and profited from the 2008 subprime mortgage crisis. Dr. Michael Burry was, along with Steve Eisman, skeptical (to say the least) about the confidence with which Wall Street sold mort...
The character of Jared Vennett is based on real person Greg Lippmann. Greg Lippmann is a hedge fund manager and the former head of asset-backed securities trading at Deutsche Bank. By February 2006, many of the savviest players on Wall Street had their eyes on Dr. Burry’s big bet against the housing market. Other traders were curious why Scion Capi...
The characters of Jamie Shipley and Charlie Geller are based on Jamie Mai and Charlie Ledley. Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai are the founders of Cornwall Capital, a New York City investment corporation. Two young, obscure start-up investors, however, heeded Lippmann’s call and saw the opportunity of a lifetime staring them in the face. Charlie Ledley...
The character of Ben Rickert is based on real person Ben Hockett. Ben Hockett is a former Deutsche Bank trader who left Wall Street behind to trade derivatives from his home in Berkeley Hills. In 2006 he worked with investment company Cornwall Capital to short the housing market and profit from the 2007-2008 subprime mortgage crisis. Ben Hockett, a...
The character of Mr. Chau is based on real person Wing Chau. Wing Chau is an investment advisor and bond manager. Lippmann had Eisman meet a CDO manager named Wing Chau. Eisman hadn’t even known that there was such a thing as a CDO manager (because what was there to manage?), but here was one in the flesh. Wing Chau was a middleman whose job was es...
May 18, 2021 · Now that they are immortalized as main characters in a huge Hollywood film, it's only right to wonder, where are the real Charlie and Jamie now? After the crash of 2008, Ledley left Cornwall ...
Sep 6, 2019 · by The Institute. Read Next. In 2003, Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai, at the tender age of 30 formed Cornwall Capital Management (the firm has produced an average annual compounded net return of 40% – 52% gross), opening a Charles Schwab account with an initial investment of $110,000.
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Apr 7, 2024 · That’s how Ben Hockett, Charlie Ledley, and James Mai were changed to Ben Rickert, Charlie Geller, and Jamie Shipley. The latter two’s investment venture, Cornwall Capital, was also changed to ...
Oct 28, 2019 · Charlie Ledley and Jamie Mai were scrappers, a “garage band hedge fund.” In fact, they literally started out of a backyard shed in Berkeley, California. But they had a theory about financial markets that proved to be all too prescient—and that would give them a powerful advantage as the subprime market spun itself into a more and more ...
