Steve Eisman is somewhat of a celebrity in the hedge fund world. And after the release of the film adaptation of Michael Lewis’s The Big Short, Eisman has also become a star outside of the financial community as well. Eisman, who is played by Steve Carell in The Big Short, was one of the few hedge fund managers to realise the risk sub-prime mortgage borrowing presented to the US economy. His bets against the US housing market, banks and the wider equity market generated a return of more than 70% for his hedge fund investors during 2008. The handful of hedge...