S3#17 Carson Block, CIO and Founder at Muddy Waters Capital: Identifying the next great Vietnamese companies

Carson Block is the investor and founder of Muddy Waters, an American appraisal-based private investment firm that conducts investigative research on public companies. 

Muddy Waters is named after a Chinese proverb “muddy waters makes it easy to catch fish”. The firm is known for exposing accounting problems and fraud at several companies in China, Europe, Canada and the United States. 

Block regularly appears as a commentator on Bloomberg Television, CNBC and BBC. He also has written some articles for the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times and The New York Times on various topics related to improving corporate governance and market transparency. Let’s listen to this Vietnam Innovators episode and join our host Hao Tran to learn more about his business model! 

Listen to this episode on YouTube.

And explore many amazing articles at the website vietcetera.com.

A big thanks to our sponsor Jio Health  for making this episode of Vietnam Innovators possible.

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