John Hussman, Date of Birth

    

John Hussman

American hedge fund manager

Date of Birth: 15-Oct-1962

Profession: academic

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About John Hussman

  • John Peter Hussman (born 15 October 1962) is an American stock market analyst and hedge fund owner.
  • From 1992 to 1998, Hussman was Professor of Economics and International Finance at the University of Michigan.
  • In 1998–2000, Hussman set up Hussman Strategic Advisors, a hedge fund which successfully anticipated the dot-com bubble.
  • Hussman also successfully anticipated the 2008–09 credit crisis, but has severely under performed since then.
  • In September 2010, Hussman managed US$ 6.7 billion.
  • Since the post-2013 recovery, Hussman has remained bearish, asserting that central banking "quantitative easing" ("QE") has distorted markets and created a false recovery, and inflated asset prices, which had led to extremely poor investment performance.
  • As of 30 September 2019, Hussman's Strategic Growth fund had a 10-year average annual loss of -7.23% (-53% total loss), compared to a 13.24% average annual gain (+250% total gain) by its benchmark, the S&P 500.
  • By 2018, asset under management declined to USD 1 billion.Hussman is also known for a strongly quantitative approach to macro-investing and produces a regular newsletter freely available on this website, that updates Hussman's forecast 10–year return on the S&P500, which since 2015, has remained below 0%.
  • In July 2017, Hussman said that markets were "at the most offensive level of overvaluation in history" β€” even worse than in 1929 and 2000".
  • In June 2018, Hussman forecast a fall in excess of 64% (two thirds).In addition to his activity as an investor, in 2004 he established the Hussman Foundation which seeks to "provide life-changing assistance through medical research, education, and direct aid to vulnerable populations having urgent needs or significant disabilities".

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