Infoumous investor Steve Eisman has demanded that the University of Pennsylvania stop using his name for a scholarship fund established by his family.
The hedge fund manager, famously portrayed by Steve Carell in the movie “The Big Short,” blasted UPenn over the college’s support for anti-Israel protests. Eisman responded by declaring that he doesn’t want his “family’s name associated with the University of Pennsylvania. Ever.”
He said he was inspired to pull his name from the fund after seeing an interview with another alum who was responding to a UPenn-hosted event called “The Palestine Writer’s Literature Festival.”
Hedge fund manager Mark Rowan sat down with CNBC in October and demanded UPenn fire its leadership.