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My weekly roundup of important financial and media news you may have missed 

9/11/2016

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

Markets & Economy:
  • Junk debt getting crowded (WSJ)
  • McDonald’s pushes out smaller franchisees (Businessweek)
  • Should China’s debt levels worry you? (NYT)
  • Markets see Fed on hold (Bloomberg)
  • Regulators seek tighter controls on investment by big banks (NYT)
  • Gundlach puts his finger on the bond market tipping point (Bloomberg)
Asset Management:
  • Goldman Sachs bans partners from political contributions (Politico)
Long Reads:
  • How Elizabeth Holmes’s House of Cards Came Tumbling Down (Vanity Fair)
Alternatives:
  • Private Equity tries to chip away at Dodd-Frank with House bill (NYT)
  • Alternative investors find it increasingly difficult to find right opportunities (FinAlts)
  • Activist/Distressed strategies lead returns for second straight month (FinAlts)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Public Relations Firm Claims to Have Ghost Written Thousands of Op-Eds in  Major U.S. Newspapers (counterpunch.org)
  • Goldman Sachs surveys its summer interns to ask them, among other things, how they stay informed (GS.com)
  • Politico co-founder launches news venture for corporate executives (WSJ)
  • How the Murdochs Enabled Roger Ailes and Failed Fox News (Fortune)
  • Jonathan Rinehart, founder of public relations firm, dies at 86 (NYT)
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Important financial and media stories you may have missed

9/5/2016

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What We've Been Reading - Week of August 28

​Markets & Economy:
  • Firms say goodbye to flattering financial results (WSJ)
  • Beneath Yuan’s quiet, China worries rise (WSJ)
  • Silly central bank metaphors - Bazooka! (WSJ)
  • Brazilian GDP contracts 0.6% in Q2 (Fast FT)
  • Dow Chemical shares show evidence of manipulation (WSJ)
  • South Africa’s biggest debt manager halts loans to state firms (Bloomberg)
  • For U.S. businesses, Brexit leads to uncertainty and worry (NPR)
  • Has Delaware’s Chancery court grown too powerful? (Bloomberg)
  • Bridgewater says China is preparing for a bust (Business Insider)
  • Who are the owners behind China’s Anbang? (NYT)
Asset Management:
  • Credit Suisse’s legal battle with 5 tech bankers (Business Insider)
  • How the Vanguard effect adds up to $1 trillion (Bloomberg)
Long Reads:
  • The New Cheating Economy (Chronicle of Higher Education)
  • Women in Financial Services (Oliver Wyman)
Alternatives:
  • Big Data is Leading to a Silent Financial Crisis (Time)
  • Carlyle weighs withdrawal from hedge funds (FT)
  • Activists circle U.S. lenders (FT)
  • Virtually no institutional investors are happy with activist funds right now (Bloomberg)
  • Bridgewater fights back against negative press with new videos on its website (Bridgewater)
  • Private Equity firms may have a fee problem with co-investment deals (Fortune)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Print books are far from dead (Pew Research Center)
  • Melania Trump sues Daily Mail and blogger for $150M (BBC)
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Financial and media news stories you may have missed last week

8/28/2016

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What We've Been Reading - Week of August 21

Markets & Economy:
  • China to launch credit default swap market (Financial Times)
  • Experts comment on whether reintroducing Glass-Steagall would make banking system safer (The Atlantic)
  • The sharp costs of Brexit will be felt soon enough (Financial Times)
  • Is passive investing bad for society? (Bloomberg)
  • Years of Fed Missteps Fueled Disillusion With the Economy and Washington (WSJ)
Asset Management:
  • Pensions: Low yield and high stress (Financial Times)
Long Reads:
  • Deutsche Bank’s $10 billion scandal (New Yorker)        
Alternatives:
  • Summer reading list of private equity industry insiders (PEI)
  • Folger Hill hedge fund falters after pedigreed start (Reuters)
  • Under pressure, Beechwood Re works to minimize Platinum ties (Reuters)
  • Using hedge fund money, this startup bets big in Treasuries (Bloomberg)
  • Apollo pays $52 million for misleading investors (NYT)
  • Hedge fund trader who beat the feds (Fortune)
  • Preqin: 1H/16 hedge fund outflows $34B, assets dip to $3.11 trillion (FinAlternatives)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Lawyer for Melania Trump threatens defamation suits against news outlets (NYT)
  • The impact of Gawker on modern media (NYT)
  • ​An editor for The Economist writes about stories with bylines in the age of social media (Medium)
  • ​Publishers worry about viability of branded content on Facebook (WSJ)
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19 Financial and Media Industry Stories You May Have Missed Last Week

8/21/2016

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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)

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25 financial and media stories you may have missed last week

8/14/2016

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What We've Been Reading - Week of August 7

Markets & Economy:
  • American Paradox: It’s Never Been Cheaper for Cities and States to Borrow Money...And They Refuse to Do It (WSJ)
  • Ben Bernanke on the Fed’s shifting view on the economy (Brookings)
  • NYT on Jefferies (NYT)
  • IEA: World Oil Glut Has Disappeared (WSJ)
  • Top executives continue to depart Alphabet (Quartz)
Asset Management:
  • Has Wall St. been tamed? (NYT Magazine)
  • New rules and fresh headaches for short-term borrowers (WSJ)
  • How are hedge funds doing? Bloomberg’s Matt Levine discusses the Barclays report (Bloomberg)
  • Hedge fund underperformance comes from low-dispersion and high-correlation (Business Insider)
  • Money market funds scramble ahead of SEC’s floating NAV rule (InvestmentNews)
  • When Should You Publicize AUA Over AUM? (Financial Advisor IQ)
  • Real estate overthrows large-cap equities as top-performing strategy (Pensions & Investments)
  • The Titanic Risks of the Retirement System (Bloomberg)
Long Reads:
  • The seven year short: Hedge fund betting against Yuan devaluation refuses to quit (Bloomberg)

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25 financial and media stories you may have missed last week

8/7/2016

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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)​

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Financial and media news roundup for the week of July 24, 2016

7/31/2016

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Markets & Economy:

  • The U.S. reaches record high glut of gasoline (CNN Money)
  • The economy is once again under the sway of asset prices (WSJ)
  • Fed suggests growing chance on rate rise (NYT)
  • Investors wary of Saudi Aramco IPO (WSJ)
Asset Management:
  • MSCI finds that top paid CEOs don’t achieve the best firm performance (WSJ)
  • Is active management dead? Not even close (CFA Institute)
  • Active ETFs produce few stars and fewer fans (InvestmentNews)
Long Reads:
  • Glencore digs out of the abyss (Fortune)
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Financial and media news roundup for the week of July 17, 2016

7/26/2016

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Markets & Economy:
  • CEOs release list of public company corporate governance principles (New York Times)
  • Larry Fink skeptical of market highs (CNBC)
  • How the markets predict election results (Bloomberg)
  • The Fed is cautious on rates (New York Times)
  • Bears, Bulls and Ambivalence: Turkey’s Turmoil Divides Big Money (Bloomberg)
  • Shares of Line, the Japanese rival to WhatsApp, soar after IPO (Financial Times)
Asset Management:
  • Jeff Gundlach’s Bond King crown comes into question (InvestmentNews)
  • Goldman seen struggling to send dive in fixed income market share (Bloomberg)
  • Outflows accelerate from U.S. active funds (Financial Times)
  • After worst year since crisis, asset managers need to change (WSJ)
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