Former Third Point Manager Raises Money for a Short Fund

James Caruthers’s Sophos Capital Management launches a short-biased hedge fund despite the perils of the shorting game.

A former Third Point portfolio manager is raising capital for a new hedge fund. But it isn’t an activist fund.

James L. Carruthers Jr., whose Menlo Park, California–based Sophos Capital Management is passing the hat for Sophos Partners, is a short-selling specialist.

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