The LSE Directory / Trading influencers
Michael W. Green is Portfolio Manager and Chief Strategist at Simplify Asset Management, an options-based ETF provider he joined in April 2021, and writes the Substack "Yes, I give a fig... thoughts on markets". A Wharton graduate and CFA charterholder with roughly 30 years in markets, he previously served as Chief Strategist at Logica Capital Advisers, managed Peter Thiel's personal capital at Thiel Macro (where he was widely reported to have profitably shorted the XIV inverse-volatility ETN ahead of its February 2018 collapse), founded the Soros-seeded macro fund Ice Farm Capital, and built Canyon Partners' New York macro business. He is best known for research on the systemic impact of the shift from active to passive investing, which he has presented to the Federal Reserve, the IMF, the BIS, and the U.S. Department of State. His X account @profplum99 showed roughly 240K followers in recent listings, and Substack describes his newsletter as having tens of thousands of subscribers.
