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About Michael Shaoul

About Michael Shaoul

Michael Shaoul, PhD, is the Chairman and CEO of Marketfield Asset Management and the portfolio manager for Marketfield Fund and Marketfield George Town, SPC. He is one of the founding partners of Marketfield, formed in 2007, having previously served as CEO of Oscar Gruss & Son Inc. He is the Treasurer of American Friends of Tel Aviv University and a member of the Board of North American Friends of Manchester University.

The Fund Manager

Cabbages and kings

Cabbages and kings

It’s not just salads going off during these unprecedented times We are fairly certain that when writing The Walrus and the Carpenter, Lewis Carrol never imagined a time that we...

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The Fund Manager

Living with long Covid

Living with long Covid

The virus will cast a far-reaching shadow. As we cross the 18-month mark of the pandemic, we are arguably reaching the point that the descriptor endemic may be a more appropriate...

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Golden Oldie

A tale of two Josephs

A tale of two Josephs

The Biden administration may yet rue its tax and spend agenda. Writing a year ago, during the uncertain early days of the pandemic, we predicted that the US government would come...

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Golden Oldie

Not your usual distress cycle

Not your usual distress cycle

Originally published January 2021. Real estate distress cycles generally offer rich pickings to investors, but that’s unlikely to happen this time – and here’s why. This article...

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The Fund Manager

Beware the Biden boom

Beware the Biden boom

Many parts of the economy have suffered no ill effects from Covid – the US government should restrain its largesses One year after the emergence of covid as a threat to our daily...

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