19 Financial and Media Industry Stories You May Have Missed Last Week

What We've Been Reading - Week of August 14

Markets & Economy:

• Gross Says Without Consumer Spending U.S. Is in Recession (Bloomberg TV)
• The Rise of the Buyside (Bloomberg Businessweek)
• Fed's Dudley: September rate increase is possible (Fox Business Network)
• Venezuela’s risk to oil markets (Columbia University)
• Citigroup’s last prop trader walks out the door (WSJ)
• A split euro is the solution for Europe’s single currency (Financial Times)

Asset Management:

• Zen and the art of 401(k) maintenance (NYT)​​
  
• Barclays shrinks, but says its core business is stronger (NYT)
  

Long Reads:

• How Walmart is addressing its crime problem (Bloomberg Businessweek)
  
• The King of Political intelligence faces a reckoning (WSJ)
  

       
Alternatives:

• Tudor lays off 15% of staff (Reuters)
  
• Withdrawals plague Brevan Howard and Tudor (WSJ)
  
• Hedge Fund investors push for “hard hurdles” (FT)
  
• Hedge funds avoided big losses despite Brexit shock (NYT)
  
• Bridgewater’s job application process (Business Insider)
  
• Inside ValueAct Capital’s DDQ (Business Insider)
  
• Steve Eisman’s next big short is hedge fund fees (Bloomberg)
  
• LatAm hedge funds surge as region leads recovery (FinAlts)
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• The Wall Street Journal is changing up its paywall, offering guest passes and expanded link-sharing on social (Harvard’s Nieman Journalism Lab)