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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 May 29, 2017

6/4/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of May 29

Markets & Economy:
  • How to Invest in the U.S. Without Even Trying (Wall Street Journal)
  • Unemployment Rate Falls to 16-Year Low, But Hiring Slows (Wall Street Journal)
  • Investors Just Pulled the Most Cash From Small Caps in a Decade (Bloomberg)
  • Here’s How to Go Public Without Wall Street (Wall Street Journal)
  • If Jobs Are Plentiful, How Come Nobody is Getting a Raise? (Wall Street Journal)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • To Invest in Your Child’s Theater Dreams, First Invest in the Theater (The New York Times)
  • The appeal and pitfalls of holding unconventional assets in retirement accounts (InvestmentNews)
  • Advisor fees have stabilized (ThinkAdvisor)
  • Speculators are Driving a Bitcoin Bubble (Fortune)
  • Tax burdens prompt more Americans to ditch their citizenship (CNBC.com)

Long(er) Reads:
  • Why Whistleblowers Get Paid in the U.S. but Not in Britain (Bloomberg)  
  • Is efficient-market theory becoming more efficient? (The Economist)
  • ​Alternatives:
  • Once considered the titans of Wall Street, hedge fund managers are in trouble (Washington Post)
  • AIC releases 2016 Report on Top States and Districts for PE investments (AIC)
  • Wells Fargo pushes allocations to alternative funds (MarketWatch)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • How Twitter Is Being Gamed to Feed Misinformation (New York Times)
  • Google To Prepare Publishers for Chrome Ad Blocker (The Wall Street Journal)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of April 2, 2017

4/9/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of April 2

Markets & Economy:
  • China has its worst ever start to a year for defaults (Bloomberg)
  • Trump plans have dealmakers dreaming big ($100 billion cash takeover?) (NYT)
  • Bond market ignores more assertive Fed at its peril (FT)
  • U.S. companies expected to post strongest quarterly profits since 2011 (WSJ)
  • Data clash heats up between banks and NYSE (WSJ)
  • Bank reform architect puzzled by efforts to undo it (NYT)
  • Richmond Fed President Resigns, Admitting He Violated Confidentiality (NYT)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Future State of the Investment Profession (CFA Institute)

Long(er) Reads:
  • Jerks and the Start-ups They Ruin (New York Times)
  • Women Don’t Get To Run Top Board Committees (Bloomberg)
  • Uncovering the secrets of Wall Street’s largest oil trade (Bloomberg)

Alternatives:
  • Hedge Fund Strife Gives Rich Families New Swagger With Managers (Bloomberg)
  • Private capital fundraising continues in Q1 2017 (ValueWalk)
  • The fall of Fortress (Institutional Investor)
  • Private equity is breaking records left and right as funds rake in money (CNBC)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Mexican Newspaper Shuts Down - Saying It Is Too Dangerous To Continue (New York Times)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of March 27

4/2/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of March 27

Markets & Economy:
  • The future of the SEC under Jay Clayton (NYT)
  • Corporate America’s top shareholder referee get tougher on activists (Reuters)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Active managers stage a comeback (WSJ)
Long(er) Reads:
  • Sears and its hedge fund owner, in slow decline together (NYT)
Alternatives:
  • Brevan Howard granted injunction to block Reuters story (Reuters)
  • Investors like hedge funds with powerful-sounding names, even if they fail to deliver (CNBC)
  • Ackman “profoundly sorry” for $4 billion Valeant mistake (Bloomberg)
  • Ares and Oaktree join firms embracing ILPA fee template (WSJ Private Markets)
  • Bearish hedge funds gain as Trump rally fizzles (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Wall Street Journal Staffs Sign Letter Criticizing Control White Men Having Over Newsroom (Business Insider)
  • How fake news becomes a popular, trending topic (60 Minutes)
  • FBN tops CNBC in total viewership for sixth straight month (The Hill)
  • Inside Cheddar: The would-be CNBC of the Internet (Wired)
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Weekly News Roundup for the week of March 5, 2017

3/12/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of March 5

Markets & Economy:
  • Hedge funds gird for market selloff (Bloomberg)
  • Stocks have tripled since the crisis but low rates are still squeezing savers (WSJ)
  • Explaining a Paradox: Why Good (Bad) Companies can be Bad (Good) Investments! (NYU Professor Aswath Damodoran)
  • Individuals tiptoe further into long-running stock rally (WSJ)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • State Street to vote against companies that don’t have female directors (WSJ)
  • New force on Wall Street - the family office (WSJ)
  • The state of state teachers’ pension funds (NYT)
  • Inside New York’s pension fund scandal: what went unchecked (WSJ)

Long(er) Reads:
  • The London Whale resurfaces (Financial News)
  • New York’s vast flop at the WTC (New York Review of Books)

Alternatives:
  • Banks come in from the cold for hedge fund (Reuters)
  • Bridgewater’s culture is like a nudist camp at first (NYT)
  • Apollo seeks $20 billion for new buyout fund (Bloomberg)
  • Valuation shell game: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret (NYT)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Dow Jones tries a millennial finance site, Moneyish (Digiday)
  • JetSmarter Tries to Extort Journalists For Favorable Coverage (TheVerge)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Feb. 26, 2017

3/5/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Feb. 26

Markets & Economy:
  • How Chinese companies finance their ambitions abroad (WSJ)
  • These economies will get more miserable this year (Bloomberg)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • For Millionaire Immigrants, A Global Welcome Mat (NYT)
  • Inside Harvard’s new endowment strategy (WSJ)
  • Pimco’s new bond chief is on fire (Bloomberg)
  • Smaller investors run into ETFs (WSJ)

Long(er) Reads:
  • Financiers fight over the American dream (New Yorker)
  • Bitcoin’s “creator” races to patent technology with fugitive gambling tycoon (Reuters Investigates)
  • The schemers, investors, and dreamers bewitched by a giant green rock (Wired)

Alternatives:
  • Next big tax fight could pit Wall St. against private equity (Bloomberg)
  • Paul Tudor Jones’ new hedge fund pitch - low, low prices (WSJ)
  • The hot move for activists - pushing out CEOs (CNBC)
  • Bain & Co.’s global private equity report (Bain.com)
  • Credit Suisse: Hedge fund investors expect industry AUM growth, further fee compression (FinAlternatives)
  • Hedge fund titans consider succession plans as they age (Bloomberg)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • YouTube Tops 1 Billion Hours of Video a Day, on Pace to Eclipse TV  (WSJ)
  • Institutional Investor Magazine reveals redesign (TalkingBizNews)




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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Feb. 12, 2017

2/19/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Feb. 12

Markets & Economy:
  • Harvard economist Rogoff explains why he is so optimistic about the economy under President Trump (Business Insider)
  • U.S. investors brace for mounting political risks as they decode Trump (Reuters)
  • SEC Chief scales back powers of enforcement staff (WSJ)
  • Falling correlations spell opportunity for investors (WSJ)
  • Emerging market debt investors brace for ‘Trump slump’ (FT)


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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Jan 22, 2017

1/29/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Jan. 22

Markets & Economy:
  • Does Dow 20,000 Matter? Mostly No (Bloomberg)
  • China clamps down on banks moving currency overseas (Financial Times)
  • Gundlach sees Trump moves weakening dollar, boosting TIPS demand (Reuters)
  • Americans are flipping houses like it’s 2006 (Bloomberg)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Morgan Stanley said to seek fees from ETF issuers to carry funds (Bloomberg)
  • Sustainable and Impact Investing in U.S. Surges by 33%: Report (ThinkAdvisor)
  • John Bogle on the future for money managers (Business Insider)
  • Harvard Endowment to outsource most management, cut jobs (Bloomberg)
  • Active v. Passive: There is no debate (Pensions & Investments)
  • A message for my young friends (Reformed Broker)


Long Reads:
  • Long on Trump (New York Magazine)
  • Are the Murdoch sons prepared to take over for their father? (FT)

Alternatives:
  • Hedge funds risk treasuries wipeout as bearish bet soar (Bloomberg)
  • Hedge fund assets surpass $3 trillion in 2016 (Bloomberg)
  • Cooley: Why we expect PE to invest more in tech in 2017 (Cooley.com)
  • Private equity frets as Congress eyes interest deduction (Financial Times)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Ad agencies making secret settlements to avoid client audits (Business Insider)
  • Expect a media merger bonanza (Los Angeles Times)
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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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