Things Lined Up For This Weekend
This is my reading/watching list for the weekend….. Why Floundering Is Good – Psychology Today Living Cells Show How to Fix the Financial System – Bloomberg 89 Business Cliches That Will Get Any MBA Promoted And Make Them Totally Useless – Forbes Eugene Fama – Do Active Managers Earn Their Fees? – ClientInsights…..here is a…
Four Funny Blokes
Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld, Chris Rock and Louis CK talking about craft, hard work and success.
Goldman Predictions
Apparently Goldman Sachs has done a bit of thinking about the upcoming London Olympics and have come to the following conclusions about the medal count. Olympics and Economics 20102 Research Report Brought to you by the folks who didn’t see the need for their own $10 billion bailout. I don’t really need to say anything…
Bridgewater Off….
From New York Post Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates, the world’s largest hedge-fund firm, with $120 billion in assets, has hit a rough patch. After leaving its rivals in the dust for the past two years with mouth-watering double-digit returns, Bridgewater is now trailing them. Its flagship fund, Pure Alpha, fell 2.7 percent in 2012’s first…
Noddy Head Economists
Pinched this from the Mentor Program forum – drag the economists around by the nose.
Its Heartbreaking But Bloody Funny
From Bloomberg (note – link doesn’t like Chrome) Apparently US bank firms have toasted their own 401K plans by investing in themselves. For the uninitiated a 401K plan is equivalent to our superannuation plans. PS : Its not really heartbreaking but still bloody funny.
Two Books Analyse What Makes Hedge-Fund Managers Great—And Reach Very Different Conclusions
Neat little review from the Economist of The Alpha Masters: Unlocking the Genius of the World’s Top Hedge Funds by Maneet Ahuja and The Hedge Fund Mirage: The Illusion of Big Money and Why It’s Too Good To Be True. by Simon Lack. I have already spoken about The Hedge Fund Mirage and found it to be…
Well That Was Fun Whilst It Lasted
Got bounced out of Spain last night. The joy of systems trading is going long when everyone else thinks the world is about to end.
Analysts
Wall Street relies on “stock analysts.” These are people who do research on companies and then, no matter what they find, even if the company has burned to the ground, enthusiastically recommend that investors buy the stock. They are just a bunch of cockeyed optimists, those stock analysts. When the Titanic was in its death…
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