Guy Spier

Guy Selmar Spier
גיא סלמר שפיר
Born (1966-02-04) February 4, 1966 (age 60)
Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
EducationCity of London Freemen's School
Brasenose College
Harvard Business School
Heidelberg University
OccupationsInvestor, Aquamarine Fund, Author, Podcaster
Spouse
Lory Spier
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(m. 2003)​
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Guy Spier (Hebrew: גיא ספייר; born February 4, 1966) is a Zurich-based Swiss-German-Israeli investor. He is the author of The Education of a Value Investor.

Education and early life

Spier was born in 1966 in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. When he was three months old, his family moved to Tel Aviv, Israel, where he attended kindergarten. In 1970, his family moved to Iran, where he attended the British Embassy School in Tehran. In 1977, his family moved again to Richmond in the UK, and he attended the City of London Freemen's School, in Ashtead, Surrey, as a weekly boarder. In 1984, he matriculated to study law at Brasenose College, Oxford. Two years later, in 1986, he switched to study PPE (Politics, Philosophy and Economics).

Career

From 1988 to 1990, Spier was an associate at Braxton Associates, the strategy consulting firm which was later sold to Deloitte Consulting.[citation needed] Upon leaving investment banking, Spier founded the Aquamarine Fund.[citation needed]

In 2003, along with David Einhorn, Bill Ackman, and Whitney Tilson, Spier became the target of investigations by Eliot Spitzer, then the New York Attorney General, as well as by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission regarding short sales of Farmer Mac, MBIA, and Allied Capital. The meltdown of these companies during the 2008 financial crisis vindicated their short thesis.

In 2016, Spier, along with Phil Town and Matthew Peterson, successfully petitioned Judge Sontchi at the Delaware Court of Bankruptcy to form an official committee of equity holders of Horsehead Holding Corporation which had filed for bankruptcy earlier that year.

Personal life

Spier lives in Zurich with his wife Lory and three children[citation needed]

References

  1. ↑ Spier, Guy (9 September 2014). The Education of a Value Investor. Palgrave MacMillan. ISBN 978-1137278814.
  2. ↑ "19215566". viaf.org. Retrieved 2 August 2024.
  3. ↑ Catherine Mayer (11 September 2008). "David Cameron: UK's Next Leader?". Time. Archived from the original on 12 September 2008.
  4. ↑ "The Hedge Fund Witch Hunt: Eliot Spitzer's latest investigation is pursuing the wrong guys". Slate. 13 February 2003.
  5. ↑ "MBIA falls 13% after Moody's cuts rating Two-notch downgrade was more than some expected; Ambac cut to Aa". MarketWatch. 20 June 2008.
  6. ↑ "Horsehead Shareholders win court fight".
  7. ↑ Morgenson, Gretchen (26 August 2016). "How Bankrupt Is Horsehead Holding? Its Investors Want to Know". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2 August 2024.