<body.content> <block> <p>NEW YORK, Sept. 16 /PRNewswire/ — Kynikos Associates announced today that Jeffrey R. Perry has joined the firm as a Managing Director. Perry will alsoco-manage the new Kynikos Opportunity Fund along with Kynikos President, James Chanos. Chanos said, “We are very excited to have Jeff join us. Besides augmenting our research capabilities within theexisting Kynikos funds, Jeff’s presence, and many years of high level hedge fund experience, will allow us to launch the Kynikos Opportunity Fund, which he and I will co-manage.” The KynikosOpportunity Fund will have a broad mandate to invest in long and short equities, risk arbitrage, capital selective arbitrage, activist positions, as well as other investment disciplines where thefirm believes it has a significant research advantage. </p> <datasource>Kynikos Associates</datasource> </block> <block class=”contact”> <p>CONTACT: James S.Chanos of Kynikos Associates, +1-212-649-0220</p> </block> </body.content>
Jeff Perry to Join Kynikos Associates as Managing Director, and as Co-Manager Of the Kynikos Opportunity Fund
Jeff Perry to join Kynikos Associates as Managing Director, and as Co-Manager of The Kynikos Opportunity Fund
NEW YORK–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Sept. 16, 2003–Kynikos Associates announced today that Jeffrey R. Perry has joined the firm as a Managing Director. Perry will also co-manage the new Kynikos OpportunityFund along with Kynikos President, James Chanos. Chanos said, “We are very excited to have Jeff join us. Besides augmenting our research capabilities within the existing Kynikos funds, Jeff’spresence, and many years of high level hedge fund experience, will allow us to launch the Kynikos Opportunity Fund, which he and I will co-manage.” The Kynikos Opportunity Fund will have a broadmandate to invest in long and short equities, risk arbitrage, capital selective arbitrage, activist positions, as well as other investment disciplines where the firm believes it has a significantresearch advantage.