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My Roundup of Financial News for the Week of Dec. 25, 2016

1/2/2017

What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 25

Markets & Economy:

What’s the worst that could happen in tech in 2017? (Bloomberg podcast)
The New Kings of the S&P 500: Semiconductor Stocks (Wall Street Journal)
A former trader laments the decline of exchange floors (Wall Street Journal)
Promesa has ratings agencies at odds over territorial debt (Bloomberg)
Why Saudi Arabia might delay an IPO of Aramco (Reuters)
Surge in Chinese corporate investment into the U.S. (FT)

Asset/Wealth Management:

Volatility concerns will keep vexing managers (Pensions & Investments)
ESG Investing Momentum Grew in 2016 (PlanSponsor)
NYSE Arca Losing ETFs to Rivals (Wall Street Journal)
Stockpickers, nursing losses despite market's bull run, look to 2017 (Reuters)
2017 outlook quotes (Pensions & Investments)

Alternatives:

Blackstone winds down Senfina hedge fund (Reuters)
Hedge fund managers see smooth sailing (Pensions & Investments)
The golden era of hedge funds draws to a close with clients in revolt (Bloomberg)

Media Industry and Journalism:

The Official MoneyBeat Holiday Reading List (Wall Street Journal)
Advertising’s moral struggle: Is online reach worth the hurt? (NYT)
How Jukin Media built a viral-video empire (NYT Magazine)
Profitable Washington Post adding newsroom jobs (Politico)
2016’s most disruptive media moments (NPR)
NYT surpasses 100 million views on Facebook Live (Reuters)
The decline of TheStreet.com (LA Times)

My financial news roundup - Week of Dec. 11

12/18/2016

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)

Financial News Roundup - Week of Dec. 4

12/11/2016

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)

Financial News Roundup - Week of Nov. 27

12/4/2016

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

Markets & Economy:

Bond market carnage breeds few bold predictions for a rebound (Bloomberg)
Baffled by Donald Trump, Analysts Tell Investors to Bet on Motorcycles and Pizza (Wall Street Journal)
Will Political Reality Derail Markets’ Bet on Donald Trump? (Wall Street Journal)
Wall Street strategists are taking very different tone after Trump win (Bloomberg)
The dark omen of those Dow 19,000 hats (The Atlantic)

Asset/Wealth Management:

Jack Bogle: We’re in the middle of a revolution (Bloomberg Markets Magazine)

Long Reads:

The Secret Dangerous World of Venezuelan Bitcoin Mining (Reason Magazine)
China’s New Tool for Social Control: A Credit Rating for Everything (Wall Street Journal)
How to hide $400 million (NYT Magazine)

Alternatives:

This activist built one of the foundations of passive investing (Bloomberg)
How pension plans can build the case for hedge funds (Pensions & Investments)
Hedge fund resurrection (Forbes)
State pension funds paid $1.5 billion over 5 years to PE firms (Boston Globe)
Highland Capital seeks to unmask author of “defamatory” comment on Dealbreaker (Reuters)

Media Industry and Journalism:

An oral history of covering the Trump campaign (Columbia Journalism Review)
Reuters built its own algorithm to spot (and verify) breaking news on Twitter (Nieman Lab)
WSJ investigative reporters talk about the Theranos story (Charlie Rose)

My Weekly Financial News Roundup

11/20/2016

What We've Been Reading - Week of Nov. 13

Markets & Economy:

Bill Gross on the election (Janus)
Comprehensive chart from Davis Polk on how Dodd-Frank could look in the new administration (Davis Polk)
Will the new administration strengthen antitrust policies? (The Atlantic)
Ray Dalio’s bond shake-up scenario (Bloomberg)

Asset/Wealth Management:

Wall Street’s decade long firing spree seen winding down (Bloomberg)
Illinois pension fund moves further away from active management (WSJ)
Goldman Sachs makes its pitch to the masses (NYT)
A Concerned Billionaire Develops a Plan for Retirements (NYT)

Long Reads:

The only bank in a Yemeni town run by Al-Qaeda (NYT)
Professors peddling mega mergers (ProPublica)
Activist investors and the U.S. economy (The Atlantic)

Alternatives:

Survey: Most investors sticking with hedge funds (P&I)
Bill Ackman’s fortune - down, but not out (NYT)
Hedge fund with $2 billion bets on “crazy” in a Trump world (Bloomberg)
Trump victory sparks hedge fund bonanza (WSJ)

Media Industry and Journalism:

Facebook and Google won’t let fake news sites use their ad networks (The Atlantic)
Squawk Box moving to Nasdaq studio next year (Talking Biz News)
Bloomberg announces changes across its news operation (WSJ)

My Weekly News Roundup

10/23/2016

What We've Been Reading - Week of Oct. 16

The debate over active vs. passive management dominated headlines this week, coinciding with the Wall Street Journal’s launch of ‘The Passivists’; a series of articles exploring the rise of passive investing. The following are some of the more prominent articles covering the subject:

Wall Street’s ‘Do Nothing’ Investing Revolution (WSJ)
The Dying Business of Picking Stocks (WSJ)
Some visual aids in support of the growth of passive management (WSJ)
Capital Group’s Timothy Armour in defense of activist investing (WSJ)
To succeed, Janus/Henderson merger will need to counter decline of active management (P&I)
Cliff Asness weighs in on (Cliff’s Perspective, AQR Blog)

Markets & Economy:

Central banks’ balance sheets soar (Bloomberg)
A Nasdaq upgrade threatens IEX (WSJ)
Where will the next crisis come from? (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Asset Management:

Hedge funds using complex algorithms are gaining an edge (Financial Times)
How one Goldman trader made $100M profit for the firm (WSJ)

Long Reads:

Steve Cohen’s comeback (Fortune)

Alternatives:

Firms look for ways to skirt new CLO rules (WSJ)
Hedge funds cost New York state $3.8 billion (Bloomberg)
KPMG and MFA release results of their 2016 survey on the hedge fund industry (KPMG)

Media Industry and Journalism:

MetLife breaks it off with Snoopy (WSJ)
The Wall Street Journal is cutting newsroom jobs again (CNN)

My weekly roundup of financial news

10/9/2016

What We've Been Reading - Week of Oct. 2
Markets & Economy:

Why did Google fall behind Amazon on home devices? (NYT)
On Jack Dorsey’s one year anniversary, Twitter remains a mess (Wired)
Only 22% of everyday investors know the basic principles of bonds (Business Insider)
Oil crosses $50 a barrel (Reuters)
How chaos broke loose during flash crash on Friday (FT)

Asset Management:

Janus Henderson merger - active managers get defensive together (WSJ)
The Culture Ate Our Corporate Reputation (WSJ)
Passive investing is on a tear and for a very good reason (CNBC)
How Fidelity’s owners get richer at everyday investors’ expense (Reuters)
Smart Beta - the next frontier in the fee fight? (WSJ)
Merrill to end commission-based option for retirement savers (WSJ)

Long Reads:

New Yorker profile of Y Combinator’s Sam Altman (New Yorker)
Mail Chimp and the Un-Silicon Valley Way to Make it As a Start-Up (New York Times)
The dizzying grandeur of 21st-century agriculture (NYT photo essay)
Florida’s Feud Over Zika-Fighting Mosquitoes Heats Up (Bloomberg)
The billionaires’ pawn (WSJ)

Alternatives:

Ides Capital targets companies’ weakness: the gender gap (NYT)

Media Industry and Journalism:

The Goldman Sachs-backed 'Bloomberg killer' has 116,000 customers a year after launch (Business Insider)
Bloomberg moves to 24 hour schedule (TalkingBizNews)

My weekly roundup of financial and media news

10/2/2016

What We've Been Reading - Week of Sept. 25
Markets & Economy:

Sheila Bair’s new nightmare, student debt (Bloomberg)
What the Deutsche Bank situation means for global markets (CNBC)
Deutsche Bank: from bombs and bravado to risk of a bailout (BBC)
Five things you should know about Deutsche Bank’s problems (Fortune)
Howard Marks says institutional returns at 5.5% “a big problem” (Bloomberg)

Asset Management:

Wells Fargo scandal could lead to more regulation (Wealth Management)
ETFs have trouble penetrating TDF market (InvestmentNews)
Why Harvard keeps underperforming Yale (Bloomberg)
NJ pension fund lost money on investments last year (NJ.com)
High Finance and Family-Friendly? KKR Is Trying (WSJ)

Long Reads:

How men and women see the workplace differently (WSJ)

Weekly roundup of important stories you may have missed last week

9/25/2016

What We've Been Reading - Week of Sept. 18
Markets & Economy:

Reckoning coming for U.S. pensions as investment returns lag (Bloomberg)
Who hates free trade? Surprisingly, not voters (NYT)

Asset Management:

A sour surprise for public pensions: two sets of books (NYT)
Betterment rebrands platform for advisors (Financial Planning)
John Bogle on how the DOL fiduciary rule is just the first step (InvestmentNews)

Long Reads:

Inside Wall Street’s great feud Ackman v. Icahn (Fortune)
Man v. Rat: Could the Long War Soon Be Over (The Guardian)
Andrew Sullivan on his search for peace away from his smartphone (NYMag)
The secret powerhouse processing millions in global fraud (CNN)
How Hampton Creek sold Silicon Valley on a fake-mayo miracle (Bloomberg Businessweek)

Alternatives:

Asenqua Ventures - the VC firm that wasn’t there (Fortune)
How firms balance SEC and LP demands (PrivCap)
Hedge fund redemptions ease in August (HFMWeek)
Private debt performance spurs further investor inflows (FinAlts)
Hedge fund fees need to fall further investors say (Bloomberg)

Media Industry and Journalism:

Univision names News Corp’s Narisetti as CEO of rebranded Gawker Media Group (WSJ)
How government agencies control media embargoes (Scientific American)

My weekly news roundup of important financial and media news stories

9/18/2016

What We've Been Reading - Week of Sept. 11
Markets & Economy:

Hostage to a bull market - Op-ed by Jim Grant (WSJ)
Divided Fed inclined to stand pat (WSJ)
The Economic Expansion Is Helping the Middle Class, Finally (WSJ)

Asset Management:

Rock-Bottom Yields Dig Hole for Pensions (Bloomberg)
At Blackrock, a Wall Street Rock Star’s $5 trillion comeback (NYT)
S&P Dow Jones Indexes out with its mid-year scorecard of active managers (Dowjones)
Investors stick with assets that mimic hedge funds (ie. liquid alts) (NYT)
Funds Load Up on Risk as Crisis-Era Securities Make a Comeback (Bloomberg)

Long Reads:

The Wall Street guru who only talks to a hedge fund elite (Bloomberg)

Alternatives:

Hedge funds offer fee cuts and clawbacks (FT)
Some of the biggest hedge funds are bleeding cash (Bloomberg)
One third of hedge funds use hurdle rates in fee formula (Pensions & Investments)
Hedge funds across the globe cut fees in search for investors (Reuters)

Media Industry and Journalism:

How the LA Times broke the Wells Fargo story (Columbia Journalism Review)
Why business stories are often about people (Talking Biz News)

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