Barron’s Top 100 Hedge Funds
click for larger version Source: Dalio’s World SANDRA WARD Barron’s, May 19, 2012 http://online.barrons.com/article/SB50001424053111904370004577390023566415282.html
Mirabile Dictu! The SEC Finally Investigates Magnetar
More than four years after Serena Ng and Carrick Mollencamp of the Wall Street Journal first took notice of the highly destructive ways of the Chicago hedge fund Magnetar, which created a series of toxic CDOs, the SEC finally appears to be taking a serious look at some of their deals.
Factors Institutional Investors Are Favoring
Every year since 1989, Merrill Lynch surveys a few 100 institutional investors using a broad variety of quantitative, valuation, process and modeling questions. Their responses get summarized in a 39 chart, 27 page report. You can get a sense of the depth and breadth of the report in just a few charts — but overall,...
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Hedge funds are flying high
Five months in and it’s been a pretty good year for hedge funds with the HFRI fund weighted composite index up 4.4 per cent year to date, following its strongest first quarter...
Goldman Ex-Prop Traders Flopping on Their Own
John Whitehead is being proven right.
Those Cam dine with me donors
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Some Good News for Paulson
Coming off a brutal 2011, star hedge-fund manager John Paulson and his investors could use some good news. They got some today.
Hedge Funds Still Building Assets, Despite Weak Performance
Hedge fund investors don’t appear to care about performance. Well, not enough to run away at least.
Satyajit Das: Pravda The Economist’s Take on Financial Innovation
By Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives – Revised Edition (2006 and 2010)
In the old Soviet Union, Pravda, the official news agency, set the standard for “truth” in...Satyajit Das: Pravda The Economist’s Take on Financial Innovation
By Satyajit Das, derivatives expert and the author of Extreme Money: The Masters of the Universe and the Cult of Risk Traders, Guns & Money: Knowns and Unknowns in the Dazzling World of Derivatives – Revised Edition (2006 and 2010)
In the old Soviet Union, Pravda, the official news agency, set the standard for “truth” in...Occupy the SEC Discusses Volcker Rule on RT
It's always a pleasant surprise to see a TV program have a long form discussion on a fairly technical topic. Readers should enjoy the RT interview of Caitlin Kline and Alexis Goldstein of Occupy the SEC on its Volcker Rule comments. They discussed the major areas they were concerned with and some loopholes in the...
