The Rally Continues
For those of us who follow instruments moving to new highs the movement in the US market has been very interesting.
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Who Would Have Thunk It?
Those looking into the collapse of MF Global reckon they have found 90% of the coin that mysteriously disappeared from clients accounts. Dealbook…..“Investigators have determined what happened to nearly all of the customer money that disappeared from MF Global around the time of its bankruptcy last Oct. 31, but have not publicly disclosed their progress,…
Certainty
As the New Year, has come and gone we have been bombarded with predictions for the coming year. Despite their best effects those that opt to predict what the market will do in 12 months times can seem to predict their own uselessness – an odd paradox that one. I have not looked at this…
The Graduates
WHILE THE CHANTS of the protesters and the thrumming of the drum circle echoed through New York’s financial district, I spent a pleasant October weekend in Chicago drinking with the people who used to occupy Wall Street. It was my 10-year reunion at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Obviously I wanted to…
Kodak Part Two
I had been thinking about the Kodak debacle when I remembered this – The Peter Principle states that “in a hierarchy every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence”, meaning that employees tend to be promoted until they reach a position in which they cannot work competently. It was formulated by Dr. Laurence…
Profit vs. Principle: The Neurobiology of Integrity
I have often thought that integrity can simply be defined as what you do when no one is looking. Let your better self rest assured: Dearly held values truly are sacred, and not merely cost-benefit analyses masquerading as nobel intent, concludes a new study on the neurobiology of moral decision-making. Such values are conceived differently,…
The Moral Foundations (Or Lack Thereof) Economic Behaviour
Interesting little talk from the EconoTalk folks on the moral basis for economic behaviour and its role in prosperity. Someone should forward this to the peanuts on Wall Street. David Rose of the University of Missouri, St. Louis and the author of The Moral Foundation of Economic Behavior talks with EconTalk host Russ Roberts about…
Loss Realisation
I have been reading Daniel Kahneman’s Thinking Fast and Slow and the going has been slow because I have gotten used to reading books on my tablet and having a large selection available. If I want to read a book I now have to remember to get it off the shelf. Going through this book…
History Repeating Itself
There has been much talk about how Kodak the inventor of the digital camera and responsible for much of the initial groundwork in that field could get it so friggen wrong that they are now history. The reasons as to why they buggered it up will be the subject of corporate analysts and historians for…
Sad Bastards….The Graphic
I have written before about the rise of sad bastardry in the modern world and lo and behold some clever clogs has produced this neat little graphic which nicely illustrates the cycle of sad bastardry.
Hedge Fund Returns Again
The Practical Quant has an interesting breakdown of of the the performance of various styles of hedge fund investing. It has this interesting quote – While hedge funds have suffered through terrible years in the past, one gets the sense that investors are waking up to the fact that there just aren’t that many great trading…
Been For Your Waddle Around The Block This Morning?
Something different for this Friday – Sam Giguere is an NFL wide receiver . This is one of his workout videos.
Hedge Funds….WTF Did They Make?
Recently I came across two contradictory positions that I am trying to reconcile. I was researching the return for hedge funds for 2011 when I came across the RBC Hedge Fund 250 Index. According to the blurb – The RBC Hedge 250 Index is a non-investable benchmark of the performance of the hedge fund industry…
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