Jason Mudrick’s Big Mortgage Bet Pays Off

The distressed hedge fund has minimized losses thanks to a successful short bet on a suddenly high-profile real estate index.

Jason Mudrick (Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)

Jason Mudrick

(Michael Nagle/Bloomberg)

Jason Mudrick’s Mudrick Capital Management made a large short bet against shopping mall mortgages — a position that has paid off as various markets have cratered this year.

Mudrick has a roughly $500 million bet against the CMBX Series 6, a commercial real estate mortgage index, according to an investor in the distressed debt firm.

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