This remains a broad based rally – the interesting thing is the number of pundits who are still denying its existence.  

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…