Hedge Fund Performance: First half of 2012
Snipped these from the always interesting Practical Quant Hedge funds are still rubbish……
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Prediction Markets
Came across this interesting little paper. The title can be a little confusing since the term prediction market is simply used to convey a market that generates odds. When they say prediction market think bookmaker. The gist of the paper is that such markets have been used for centuries for a variety of events but…
Talent Is Overrated……Bullshit It Is
Over the past few years a popular bit of folk lore has taken hold in the minds of the non critical thinking members of the public. This odd quirk in thinking is essentially that talent is over rated as a commodity and that all that is required for success in a given field is practice.…
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.
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