Burry, the former hedge fund manager who accurately predicted the housing market crisis and is featured in Michael Lewis' book "The Big Short," is looking to raise money to start a new fund, the Wall Street Journal's Juliet Chung reports.
According to the Journal, he's looking to raise between $100 and $200 million.
The medical doctor-turned-hedge fund manager had incredible annualized returns during his eight years of running Bay Area-based Scion Capital Group.
Burry—who has a glass eye, Asperger's Syndrome and likes to play the guitar—racked up returns of 472% since the fund's inception in 2000.
He crushed it on his bet against the subprime housing market. In 2007, he returned 166% for investors.
After that, he didn't get inundated with phone calls from people wanting to invest. Instead, he told Bloomberg "Risk Takers" that he didn't receive a single call.
Burry then returned investor money in 2008 to focus on investing his own money.