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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Sept. 24, 2017

10/1/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Sept. 24

Markets & Economy:
  • Leveraged loans are back (WSJ)
  • As China piles on debt, consumers seek a piece of the action (NYT)
  • Citigroup aims to bring back synthetic CDOs (Bloomberg)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • The growing clout of ETF strategists (WSJ)
  • Big investors want directors to stop sitting on so many boards (WSJ)
  • Banks lobbying to stem MiFID’s Spread Spark a U.S. client revolt (Bloomberg)
  • Freud Meets Finance: Why Wealthy Clients Are Using Financial Advisors For Money Therapy (Forbes)
Long(er) Reads:
  • Congressional aids risk conflicts with stock trades (Politico)
  • The coming software apocalypse (The Atlantic)
Alternatives:
  • Infrastructure Investors Swap Debt For Equity (II)
  • Family Offices to up allocations (PEI*)
  • The Massive Hedge Fund Betting on AI (Bloomberg)
  • Why Private Equity May Be on a Highway to the Danger Zone (II)
  • Hedge funds ain’t dead yet (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • WilmerHale 'inadvertently' leaks Pepsi client secrets to Wall Street Journal (LegalWeek)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of August 27, 2017

9/4/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Aug. 27

Markets & Economy:
  • Synthetic CDOs are back (WSJ)
  • CalPERS asks 504 companies why they have all-male boards (MMR)
  • Day Trading in Wall Street’s Complex ‘Fear Gauge’ Proliferates (NYT)​
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • James Staley’s series of unfortunate events (NYT)
  • BlackRock Finds $5 Trillion Industry Is Now Riskier Than in '08 (Bloomberg)
  • Hedge funds see a gold rush in data mining (FT)
  • Active Management Pays Off In Real Estate Funds (II)
Long(er) Reads:
  • Have smartphones destroyed a generation? (The Atlantic)
Alternatives:
  • No 2-and-20? No Problem (II)
  • Buyout Funds Have Money to Burn, and That’s a Problem (WSJ)
  • The Hot New Hedge Fund Flavor Is 'Quantamental' (Bloomberg Businessweek)
  • Hedge funds see a gold rush in data mining (FT)
  • Hedge Funds' Near-Record Momentum Bets Keep Coming Up Winners (Bloomberg)
  • Private Debt Markets Hide Hedge-Fund-Like Risks (Bloomberg Businessweek)
  • How a small Wisconsin town is making some hedge funds very nervous (CNBC.com)
  • The New Wave of Activists (II)
  • SEC scrutinises sales of LP stakes (PEI)
Media Industry and Journalism:

  • The Guardian sets up nonprofit entity to support journalism (NYT)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of July 16, 2017

7/23/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of July 16

Markets & Economy:
  • Poll: Wall Street effort to improve its image fails to sway Americans (Bloomberg)
  • Markets’ Steady Climb in 2017 Defies Historic Odds (WSJ)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Brokers’ call on Wall Street: Bye (WSJ)
Long(er) Reads:
  • Should the tech giants be broken up? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Alternatives:
  • CalPERS says considering making own private equity investments (Reuters)
  • Hedge Funds Performing Their Best Since 2009 (II)
  • Hedge funds aren’t quite dead yet as $6 billion comes in (WSJ)
  • Loophole Closed: Hedge-Fund Managers Prepare Huge Tax Checks (WSJ)​
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • My futile battle to do away with business jargon (Financial Times)
  • Vice Media lays off about 60 staffers to focus on video (L.A. Times)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of April 24, 2017

4/30/2017

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Markets & Economy:
  • The Future of Emerging Markets Investing (Oppenheimer Funds)
  • Hedge funds put their bets on gold (Bloomberg)
  • China market stress reaches bonds (WSJ)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Liquid alternatives gain $17.6B in AUM as fund numbers contract (FINalternatives)
  • Wells Fargo directors face shareholders’ ire (WSJ)
  • Rob Arnott casts doubt on smart-beta funds (WSJ)​
Long(er) Reads:
  • Can Facebook Fix Its Own Worst Bug? (New York Times)
  • This lawsuit goes to 11 (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Alternatives:
  • David Einhorn’s Q1 letter to investors (ValueWalk)
  • Hedge fund executive Simon Lorne talks Trump, Brexit, ‘Billions’ (Reuters)
  • Inside the fund that became an expert at making billionaires (Bloomberg)
  • Wall Street’s new problems when fund titans invest on the side (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • The media bubble is worse than you think (Politico)
  • Politico’s Media Issue
  • Time, Inc. decides to go it alone (WSJ)
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My weekly financial news roundup for the week of Jan. 15, 2017

1/22/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Jan. 15

Markets & Economy:
  • Boomers’ mandatory 401k withdrawal is causing major shift in cash (WSJ)
  • Obama’s legacy on Wall Street and New York City (WNYC News Radio)
  • Wall Street gets its groove back (WSJ)
  • New Wall St. conflict: Analysts say ‘buy’ to win access for their clients (WSJ)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Stock picking is back (WSJ)
  • A Rare Corner of Finance Where Women Dominate (NYT)
  • Robos jumping into socially responsible investing space (InvestmentNews)
  • Cliff Asness on the unintended consequences of the fiduciary rule (AQR.com)
  • Morgan Stanley increases tech deals to booth wealth business (Reuters)

Alternatives:
  • David Einhorn’s view on the year ahead (ValueWalk)
  • Struggling hedge funds still expense bonuses, bar tabs (Reuters)
  • Carried interest in the Trump administration (FinAlts)


Media Industry and Journalism:
  • NYT releases internal 2020 report (NYT)
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My Weekly Financial News Roundup for Jan 8, 2017

1/17/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Jan. 8

Markets & Economy:
  • Gundlach says trouble for equities if yields peak at 3% (FinAlternatives)
  • Millennials are trading off Trump tweets (Business Insider)
  • With new leverage, NYC’s Stringer could reshape boardrooms (Reuters)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • 5 trends you’ll see in ETFs in 2017 (WSJ)
  • Financial stability board releases guideline on asset management industry (WSJ)
  • BlackRock reports $41 billion in institutional net inflows in quarter; net income falls 3% (Pensions & Investments)

Long Reads:
  • When The Feds Went After the Hedge-Fund Legend Steven A. Cohen (New Yorker)
  • Stealing From Media Companies Has Never Been Easier (Variety)

Alternatives:
  • President Obama Was Officially Terrible For Hedge Funds (Fortune)
  • Hedge funds end year with positive returns (Pensions & Investments)
  • PE fundraising continued uptick in 2016 (PEI)
  • CalPERS may move up to $30 billion in-house as pension cuts fees (Bloomberg)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Nat Hentoff, Journalist and Social Commentator, Dies at 91 (New York Times)
  • Politico veterans form new news venture that aims to fox advertising (WSJ)
  • Instagram permits ads in video stories (AdWeek)
  • Brand identity is the key for healthy magazines (Marketplace podcast)
  • ReutersTV hits 1 million viewers (Digiday)
  • Why Breitbart is getting into business journalism (TalkingBizNews)
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My Weekly Financial News Roundup for the week of Jan. 2, 2017

1/8/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Jan. 2

Markets & Economy:
  • Investors Soured on Emerging Markets in 2016 (WSJ)
  • Millennials think the Trump economy is going to implode (Bloomberg)
  • China doubles down on defending its currency (WSJ)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Can Donald Trump breathe life into actively managed funds? (InvestmentNews)
  • Fidelity embraces ETFs (WSJ)
  • Hedge fund secrecy spurned by ABN Amro’s $27 billion pension pot (Bloomberg)
  • WSJ: It’s time for investor fees to go even lower (WSJ)
  • Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio reacts to a Wall Street Journal article (LinkedIn)
  • Brokers once disdained independent financial advisors. Now they copy them. (WSJ)
  • How Merrill tamed its herd, pushing brokers to pitch bank products (WSJ)

Alternatives:
  • Clients Want Hedge Funds But Not Their Big Bets (WSJ)
  • No one questioned this hedge fund’s Madoff-like returns (Bloomberg)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • In New Jersey, only a few media watchdogs are left (NYT)
  • ALM Lays Off Senior Editors (Bloomberg BNA)
  • Medium lays of 50, shutters NYC and DC offices (AdWeek)
  • Apple removes NYT from app store in China (NYT)
  • Facebook hires Campbell Brown (NYT)
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My Roundup of Financial News for the week of Dec. 18, 2016

12/27/2016

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 18

Markets & Economy:
  • 2016 Was a Very Good Year for Stock Market Contrarians (Wall Street Journal)
  • How frackers beat OPEC (The Atlantic)
  • Reasons to Be Miserable Don’t Include Bond Yields (WSJ)
  • CEOs dumping stock during postelection rally (CNBC)
  • Corporate governance should blend PE and family firm models (Harvard Business Review)
  • Where to Invest in 2017 (Kiplinger’s Personal Finance)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • CalPERS return cut would be small but notable (Reuters Breakingviews)
  • CalPERS rising pension warning bell (Bloomberg)
  • ESMA and The Invisible Whistleblower Hotline (Financial Times)
  • Prem Watsa: Bet on growth (Bloomberg)
  • Natixis launching 401(k) market's first ESG-focused target-date mutual funds (InvestmentNews)
  • Young Americans Piled Into Some Horrendous ETF Trades Right After the Election (Bloomberg)
  • N.Y. pension fund manager, brokers charged in pay-to-play scheme (Reuters)

Long Reads:
  • The secret history of Deloitte’s espionage practice (CNBC)
  • Chinese city claims it will outcompete U.S. in tech post tariffs (WSJ)
  • The world’s largest hedge fund is building an algorithmic model of its founder’s brain (WSJ)

Alternatives:
  • MetLife’s hedge fund chop (Bloomberg)
  • A billionaire retrenches in a tough year for hedge funds (WSJ)
  • A New Fund Seeks Both Financial and Social Returns (NY Times)
  • Hedge fund winners and losers emerge as year ends on a better note (Bloomberg)
  • Avaya: How a $9 billion buyout went wrong (WSJ)
  • Hedge fund math: Tails we win, heads you lose (NYTimes)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Journalists have to be tougher on everybody (ReCode)
  • 2016's most influential financial Twitter handles (Sentieo)
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My financial news roundup - Week of Dec. 11

12/18/2016

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 11

Markets & Economy:
  • How Wall Street is responding to the President-elect’s Twitter habits (Politico)
  • China challenges EU and U.S. over market economy status (Financial Times)
  • Gundlach: 10Y yields over 3% could mean trouble for stocks, housing (Reuters)
  • The universe of small-cap stocks is shrinking (II)
  • China’s economic policy under pressure as Fed flags new era (FT)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Large investors accelerate divestment of fossil fuel stocks (NYT)
  • Investors warm to the fiduciary rule as it faces uncertainty (WSJ)
  • Anxious mutual fund industry holds ‘seismic shift senior leadership forum’ (WSJ)
  • Josh Brown tries to fix active mutual funds (Reformed Broker Blog)
Long Reads:
The rivalry between the companies that make holiday bells (NPR Podcast)

Alternatives:
  • Hedge funds driven by anonymous ideas gets new investments (NYT)
  • North America funds outperform all strategies (FinAlts)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Bloomberg’s bet on apps as the new magazine (Digiday)PwC: Cord-cutting begins to slow, mobile video proliferates (PwC)
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Financial News Roundup - Week of Dec. 4

12/11/2016

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 4

Markets & Economy:
  • Trump economic plan will send U.S. into recession says hedge fund manager (Forbes)
  • Coca-Cola’s counterintuitive game plan: shrink revenues (II)
  • Supreme Court clarifies insider trading rules (Bloomberg)
  • China banks are hiding more than $2 trillion in loans (WSJ)
  • US kids far less likely to out-earn their parents (NPR)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Boring analyst reports are out, bold reports are in (Bloomberg)
  • NYT Op-Ed: Dangers of concentration of institutional investors (NYT)
  • The duo who dethroned Pimco (WSJ)
  • How the Twinkie made the super rich even richer (NYT)
Long Reads:
  • The berry harvests of Chernobyl (Aeon)
  • Alphabet’s CFO Ruth Porat brings financial discipline to Google (Bloomberg Businessweek)

    ​    Alternatives:
  • NFL union starts VC fund with players as capital (Bloomberg)
  • MassPRIM looks to add smaller hedge fund managers (Reuters)
  • Cliffwater says 90% of hedge funds aren’t worth their fees (New York Post)
  • Hedge fund closures on track for worst year since 2008 (Financial Times)
  • Winners emerge in hedge fund industry despite rocky start to the year (Financial Times)
  • Hedge funds are about to go on a hiring spree for a new type of talent (Business Insider)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • LinkedIn hires financial services editor (LinkedIn)
  • 2016 Jealousy List (Bloomberg)
  • Huffington Post names new top editor (CNN)
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