John Hempton explains some of the details here, using nothing more than the published accounts.

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Igor Greenwald on Forbes is for, while John Hempton in Business Insider is against.

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Now a blogger, John Hempton of Bronte Capital, has revealed that he set up a fake profile on girlsdateforfree.com - a Cupid Plc site.

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By a fund manager in Australia called John Hempton.

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Blogger John Hempton, of Bronte Capital, set up a fake profile on girlsdateforfree.com that he deliberately made as unattractive as possible to test what kind of reaction he would receive.

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Pretty much nothing actually, according to John Hempton.

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John Hempton ( a hedge fund manager with a great interest in such Chinese stocks) has had a go at working out, if Sino Forest is indeed a scam, quite how much money has been taken.

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