25 financial and media stories you may have missed last week

Financial and Media News Roundup for the week of July 31

Markets & Economy:

• Jeff Gundlach says “sell everything” (Reuters via CNBC)
• QE forever cycle will have an unhappy ending (FT)
• Hedge funds bet that Treasury rally has further to go (Bloomberg)
• A top performing hedge fund has sounded the alarm (Business Insider)
• Why is the stock market so high? Ask the bond market (NYT)
• Why Voters Don’t Buy It When Economists Say Global Trade Is Good (NYT, The Upshot)
• Are US Regulators Creating Another Japan? (WSJ)
• “The Infiltrator” on the current state of bank compliance (WSJ)
• Investors rush to Turkey despite a coup, terrorists, and inflation (NYT)
• America’s aluminum industry pushes back against Chinese competition (Bloomberg)
• Companies routinely steer analysts to deliver earnings surprises (WSJ)​

Asset Management:

• Startups shake up 401(k) arena (WSJ)
  

Long Reads:

• The long road to Brexit (LRB)
  
• Shopping malls aren’t dying - they’re changing (Racked)
  

Alternatives:

• How private equity avoids tax (WSJ Video)
  
• Point72 commits $250 million to crowd-sourced quant fund (Bloomberg)
  
• For hedge fund investors, a new kind of leverage (Alpha)
  
• Liquid Alts shed $7B in Q2 as volatility caused withdrawals (FinAlts)
  
• New Jersey pension fund cuts $9 billion hedge fund investment in half (Bloomberg)
  
• Hedge fund activism helps targeted companies (CFO.com)
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Gawker’s Nick Denton files for personal bankruptcy (NYPost)
  
• Fox Business reports record audience for July (TalkingBizNews)
  
• DLPR’s own Seth Linden talks communications strategies on Bloomberg radio (Bloomberg)
  
• Law360 to vote on unionization August 10th (Bloomberg BNA)
  
• Your brand is more fragile than you think (FT)