25 Biggest Activist Short Sellers in the Hedge Fund World

15. Richard Pearson (Moxreports)

Ricardo Pearson is an activist short investor in the US and Chinese stocks. Before he started publishing his reports on Seeking Alpha, he worked as an investment banker in New York, London, and Hong Kong, with a primary focus on equity capital markets. At the moment of writing, his profile on the mentioned website has 5,354 followers, but his last report was published more than one year ago. Namely, in March 2018, he published a report on  Vuzix Corporation (NASDAQ:VUZI), with the title “Vuzix: Far Worse Than Anyone Had Imagined”, but soon after the company filed a lawsuit against him claiming that the things written in the report are false and misleading. Nonetheless, Vuzix’ stock lost around 44% since the time of the report until the time of writing this article. He has also been sharing his investment thesis and analyses on its personal site Moxreports since 2012.