Carl Waynberg Carl Waynberg is a former motion picture agent. During his tenure at the venerable William Morris Agency, Carl worked with such on-screen luminaries as Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, George Clooney, Sylvester Stallone, Salma Hayek and Kim Cattrall, to name a few. After bringing the script The Sixth Sense to the attention of Bruce Willis' agent and championing the project on behalf of the star (see Premiere magazine, "The Deal That Saved Bruce Willis' Career," January 2000), Carl was promoted to agent. At the time, he was the only individual in the firm's 100-plus year history to be promoted to work with all forms of talent -- writers, directors and actors.
As an agent, Carl put together a client list that included best-selling novelists and journalists, promising newcomers, award-winning mainstays of the business and even the co-founder of a major movie studio (Amblin Entertainment, now DreamWorks). In addition, he represented a diverse mix of intellectual property, from the work of a Nobel laureate to a 1960s gumshoe detective series.
In 1999, Carl left the shark-infested waters of Hollywood for the shark-infested waters of Wall Street. As an independent research analyst for a number of brokerage firms, he quickly earned a reputation as a "smarter-than-average bear with a nose for bull." His innate skepticism and distrust of authority has led to a number of prescient forecasts, beginning with calling the tech meltdown as a freshman analyst in May 2000. He has proven himself especially adept at spotting nascent rotational shifts and exploiting macro trends, including recommending gold shares and Russia in December 2001 and China and Japan in March 2002.
Carl's investing style represents the confluence of gut instinct and a bloodhound-like alacrity for research. He favors bottom-up quantitative and qualitative analysis, but not to the exclusion of reading the chart leaves to highlight appropriate entry points. And while he has shown himself to be skillful at devising successful screening formulas, he is just as inclined to resort to good ol' fashioned detective work. |
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