Michael Burry

Investor; founder of Scion Capital and Scion Asset Management^[1]

Michael James Burry is an American investor and physician known for his contrarian, research-intensive investing. He studied economics and pre-med at UCLA, earned an MD at Vanderbilt in 1997, and began medical training before moving into investment management. He founded Scion Capital in 2000 and became known for examining individual mortgage loans and betting against subprime mortgage securities before the financial crisis. After closing Scion Capital in 2008, he returned to outside investment management through Scion Asset Management in 2013. He announced another closure in November 2025 and launched Cassandra Unchained on Substack. His career was described in Michael Lewis’s The Big Short and portrayed by Christian Bale in the 2015 film. Autopilot’s Burry Tracker follows his public commentary; it is a separate product rather than his own fund.