Interesting little graphic from the WSJ changes in the composition of the index over the past decade.

I snagged the following three graphs from Google finance. Each chart looks at the relative performance of the Dow (DJI), the NASDAQ (IXIC) and the S&P500 (INX) The point that interested me was that out to six months ago this was a recovery lead by the tech heavy NASDAQ with the Dow and S&P bringing…

The world would be a lot more tolerable.

I got this invite thingy for the somewhat long winded –  The 100WHF-Stanford PACS Conference: A New Era of Alpha & Altruism It is being presented by a group called 100 Women In Hedge Funds which is a professional body that aims to support women working in the financial arena. All in all a good…

And clearly it needs to be a fish…….

Bert Poe is one of those cool old blokes

Okay, so I am busy cooking and channel surfing which is about the limit of my multi tasking abilities and the range of my remote when I stumble across a  of a show called Options Action on CNBC. Excellent I think I could do with a laugh so I stop and watch for a bit…..it…

It paid to be a top-performing hedge fund manager in 2011—very, very well for the some of the biggest names in the industry, in fact. Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio was named the highest-paid hedge fund manager of the year by Forbesmagazine’s annual list of the 40 best-paid hedgies, which estimates that Dalio earned $3 billion…

….at how some people manage to blow through staggering amounts of money and have nothing to show for it.

So its not perfect buts pretty friggen clever