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Financial News Roundup for the Week of July 8, 2018

7/14/2018

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What We’ve Been Reading – Week of July 8​

Markets, Economy & Corporate News
  • Behind the Debt Binge That Now Threatens Markets (Bloomberg)
  • One third of sovereign funds plan to cut equity holdings, cite trade wars (Reuters)
  • One Sure Way to Hurt the U.S. Economy? Cut Immigration (Bloomberg)
  • Swedroe: Passive Investing Demonized (ETF.com)
  • It’s funny how companies see clearly without GAAP in their eyes (Bloomberg)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • What Generation X needs to focus on to retire successfully (CNBC)
  • Why Are Young Billionaires So Boring? (Bloomberg)
  • Here’s Why There Aren’t More Women in Asset and Wealth Management (TheStreet)
  • Wall Street Competes With Unregulated Banks for the Riskiest Loans (Bloomberg)
Alternatives:
  • Hedge Funds Should Be Thriving Right Now. They Aren’t. (NYT)
  • Billionaire’s Secret Buyout Formula: 110 Instructions and an Intelligence Test – (WSJ)
  • Merger arb funds feel the pain from trade war crossfire (Bloomberg)
  • How Private Equity Firms Are Solving Their Growth Problem (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • The Disney-Comcast TV Drama Could Have More Twists Yet (WSJ)
  • ‘No comment’: The death of business reporting (WaPo)
  • Q&AA: Maria Bartiromo Takes Stock (AdAge)
  • Can blockchain save journalism? Manoush Zomorodi doesn’t know, either, but she’s going to find out. (ReCode)
Long Reads:
  • Disastrous Deal Staggers Trump Ally Thomas Barrack (Forbes)
  • Future Trends (Axios)
  • Acadia Pharmaceuticals: This is not a pharmaceutical company (SIRF)
  • How a Tiny Bank From the Ozarks Got Big and Outpaced Wall Street’s Real Estate Machine (Bloomberg Businessweek)
  • The Sexting Scandal That Toppled One of America’s Most Powerful Lawyers (WSJ)
Technology:
  • Inside China’s Dystopian Dreams: A.I., Shame and Lots of Cameras (NYT)
  • The worst cybersecurity breaches of 2018 so far (Wired)
  • Sorry, Power-Lunchers. This Restaurant is a Co-Working Space Now. (NYT)
  • “Google Was Not a Normal Place”: Brin, Page, and Mayer on the Accidental Birth of the Company That Changed Everything (VF Hive)
Crisis Communications:
  • Papa John’s Founder Used N-Word On Conference Call (Forbes)
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Financial News Roundup - Week of July 1, 2018

7/6/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of July 1

Markets, Economy & Corporate News
  • How Michael Dell’s financial engineering created a fortune (FT)
  • Is the board side stepping its duty by not providing a reason for shareholders, the workforce, etc? (NYT)
  • The New Hot Law Job: Litigation Finance (WSJ)
  • ‘The last of the 100-year breed’: Here’s what’s left of GE (Yahoo! Finance)
  • U.S. companies turn to felons to fill labor shortage (FT)
  • A $240 billion lending binge threatens to burn Chinese brokers (Bloomberg)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • 401(k) plans could get hit by the trade war (Bloomberg)
  • Wealth Advisers Face Obstacle to Job-Hopping After Court Ruling (Bloomberg)
  • Commercial Bank Wealth Management And Trust Divisions Rarely Achieve Their Potential (Forbes)
  • Vanguard's Not the Only Threat to Active Managers (Bloomberg Opinion)
Alternatives:
  • Here’s Some Cryptocurrency, Now Please Use It (NYT)
  • A hedge fund star (David Einhorn) dims and investors flee (WSJ)
  • KPMG Has Close Ties to Troubled Private Equity Firm (WSJ)
  • ‘A way of monetizing poor people’: How private equity firms make money offering loans to cash-strapped Americans (WaPo)
Media Industry & Journalism:
  • A contributor to Forbes and other sites was charging $2,000 for each “brand mention” in his articles until BuzzFeed exposed him. (BuzzFeed)
  • Quartz, Atlantic Media’s Business News Startup, Is Sold to a Japanese Firm (NYT)
  • Public relations is a people business (DLPR Insights)
Long Reads:
  • Can Andy Byford save the subway (New Yorker)
  • Is it great to be a worker in the U.S.? Not compared with the rest of the developed world. (WaPo) - SG
  • The reinvention of Société Générale’s investment bank (FT)
Technology:
  • Tim Berners-Lee, the man who created the World Wide Web, has some regrets (Vanity Fair)
  • Why Are There So Many Robocalls? Here’s What You Can Do About Them (WSJ)
  • This year will be for building out cryptocurrency... (CNBC)
  • How Smart TVs in Millions of U.S. Homes Track More Than What’s on Tonight (NYT)
  • Exploring 5 Trends Driving The Fintech Revolution (Forbes)
  • Tagwalk Wants to Be the Google of Fashion (NYT) ​
Crisis Communications:
  • GSK director sued over US opioid epidemic (FT)
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Financial News Roundup - Week of June 17, 2018

6/22/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of June 17

Markets, Economy & Corporate News
  • The bull market’s next test, slower earnings growth (WSJ)
  • How U.S. tax reform rewards companies that shift profits to tax havens (Reuters)
  • Maybe the Big Four auditing firms do need to be broken up (Bloomberg)
  • Angelo Mozilo Is Unrepentant. But There’s No Second Act for the Head of Defunct Lender (WSJ)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Money Manager’s Steadfast Ability to Pay Themselves (WSJ)
  • The Big Bank You’re Using Is Probably Ripping You Off (Vice)
  • Young Rich People Are Seeking More Advice on Crypto from Wealth Managers (Bloomberg)
  • Wells Fargo to Restructure Wealth Management Business (WSJ)
  • “The Megaphone Effect” - AllianceBernstein details how it plans to engage with management of portfolio companies without becoming an activist investor (AllianceBernstein)
Alternatives:
  • When Past Performance Actually Is a Guide to Future Results (WSJ)
  • On your own, but with Mom and Dad footing the bill (CNBC)
  • Does Apollo Need Investors? (Institutional Investor)
  • PE Lags Other Asset Classes in Sustainable Opportunities (PEI)
Media Industry & Journalism:
  • Study: Charts change hearts and minds better than words do (Washington Post)
  • The Calm Before the Crash (The Baffler)
  • Goodbye, Denver Post. Hello, Blockchain (NYT)
  • New LA Times owner wants to compete with New York Times and Washington Post (NPR)
  • Surprise! Experts way more trusted than celebrities on social media (Axios)
Technology:
  • Bitcoin Could Break the Internet, Central Bank Overseer Says (Bloomberg)
  • Finally a Good Place to Put Your Bitcoins (Bloomberg)
  • Why Your Tech Fund Might Be Selling Facebook And Alphabet In September (Forbes)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of May 13, 2018

5/18/2018

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What We’ve Been Reading – Week of May 13​
Markets, Economy & Corporate News
  • Activists Don Sustainability Cloak to Whip Up Support (FT)
  • Capital Spending Boom is No Great Boost to Capital Markets (WSJ)
  • Comcast’s All-Cash Bid Could Pit Murdoch Against Fox Shareholders (Reuters)
  • Simplified Volcker Rule Coming to Big Banks (Bloomberg)
  • Investors Cut Holdings in Apple by Most Since at Least 2008 (Bloomberg)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Five Predictions on the Future of Wealth Management (Forbes)
  • When is it OK to Fire a Client? (Wealthmanagement.com)
  • Spooked by Scandals, Asset Management Tries to Self-Police (Institutional Investor)
Long(er) Reads:
  • What exactly happened to David Einhorn (Institutional Investor)
  • How Baby Boomers Broke America (TIME)
Alternatives:
  • Hedge funds’ favorite charity is funding their opponents (WSJ)
  • What’s in a hedge fund name? Apparently, booze, boats and Boston (Bloomberg)
  • Private equity tech titans face off with new funds (WSJ)
  • The Pope just called investment products that helped cause the financial crisis a ‘ticking time bomb’ (Business Insider)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • I’m Not Quoting Enough Women (New York Times)
  • Suzanne Scott Named First Female Chief Executive of Fox News (NYT)
Technology:
  • The crypto alternative (Techcrunch)
  • Cybersecurity Whistleblowers Are Growing Corporate Challenge (WSJ)
  • Cambridge Analytica starts bankruptcy proceedings in US (BBC)
  • In Virtual Reality, How Much Body Do You Need? (NYT)
Crisis Communications:
  • Air France-KLM hopes 3 CEOs can end its crisis (CNNMoney)
  • Hail Caesar Salad! Romaine Is Safe to Eat Again (NYT)
  • ‘Just the Grossest Thing’: Women Recall Interactions With U.S.C. Doctor (NYT)
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Financial and Media News Roundup for the Week of May 6, 2018

5/11/2018

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What We’ve Been Reading – Week of May 6​

Markets, Economy & Corporate News
  • Here’s what tax reform, so far, has meant for the stock market and the economy (MarketWatch)
  • U.S. job openings hit record high; more workers quitting (Reuters)
  • Jobless Rate Looks Like Old Times, but the Economy Doesn’t (NYT)
  • Companies Should Maximize Shareholder Welfare, Not Market Value (Journal of Law, Finance and Accounting)
  • Economists think the next U.S. recession could begin in 2020 (WSJ)
  • How China is Trying to Head Off Its Own Financial Crisis (NYT)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • David Swenson wrote an angry email. Then he pressed send. (Institutional Investor)
  • Thomson Reuters Grows Capabilities of Wealth Management Platform (Financial Advisor IQ)
  • Who Runs Mutual Funds? Very Few Women (NYT)
  • Trump Brags That He’s A Billionaire – But He Doesn’t Act Like One (Washington Post)
  • Asset managers double spending on new data in hunt for edge (Financial Times)
Alternatives:
  • That Big Hedge-Fund Short Squeeze in Treasuries Is No Sure Thing (Bloomberg)
  • Investors Want More Private Equity Relationships (Institutional Investor)
  • A Hedge Fund Fee plan that Only Charges for Alpha (Bloomberg)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • What happens when a local newspaper dies (Washington Post)
  • Denver Post Journalists Go to New York to Protest Their Owner (NYT)
  • With ‘The Weekly,’ The New York Times Gets Serious About TV (NYT)
Technology:
  • Bitcoin is ‘rat poison,’ Berkshire’s Charlie Munger says (Fox Business)
  • Bitcoin Sees Wall Street Warm to Trading Virtual Currency (NYT)
  • This 13-year-old is the youngest professional ‘Fortnite’ gamer (CNBC)
  • Google’s Assistant is getting so smart it can place phone calls and humans think it’s real (CNBC)
  • Alexa and Siri Can Hear This Hidden Command. You Can’t. (NYT)
  • Inside the Brotherhood of the Ad Blockers (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Crisis Communications:
  • Nobody Planned This, Nobody Expected It (The Collaborative Fund)
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Financial New Roundup for the Week of April 22, 2018

4/21/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of April 22

Markets & Economy:
  • South Africa bans KPMG from auditing public institutions (FT)
  • Barclays Summarizes 89-Page Tesla-Bashing Report To 5 Tweets For Dumb Americans And Tech Investors (Zero Hedge - scroll down to see the Barclays report with the suggested Tweets)
  • Silicon Valley Venture Capitalists Prepare for an I.P.O. Wave (NYT)
  • IMF Says the Global Smartphone Boom Has Reached Its Peak (Bloomberg)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Credit Suisse gets license for wealth management business in Philippines (Reuters)
  • Big banks looks to woo consumers with credit (FT)
  • Deutsche Bank Inadvertently Made a $35 Billion Payment in a Single Transaction (Bloomberg)
  • The Top 100 Venture Capitalists (CB Insights)
Long(er) Reads:
  • Palantir Knows Everything About You (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
  • A $76,000 Monthly Pension: Why States and Cities Are Short on Cash (NYT)
  • How Liberty University built a billion-dollar empire online (NYT/ProPublica)
  • The Young and the Reckless (Wired)
  • The Wolves of Instagram (The Guardian)
  • Time 100 Most Influential People (Time)
Alternatives:
  • The Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers & Traders - list (Forbes)
    • The 25 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers & Traders - story (Forbes)
  • Steve Cohen targets high frequency trading with dark pool venture (WSJ)
  • Steve Cohen Donates Dung-Adorned Art That Giuliani Tried to Ban (Bloomberg)
  • How hedge funds hide (Institutional Investor)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • New York Times and New Yorker Share Pulitzer for Public Service (NYT)
  • Report for America Supports Journalism Where Cutbacks Hit Hard (NYT)
  • As a secretive hedge fund guts its newspapers, journalists are fighting back (WaPo)

Technology:
  • Kevin Warsh and Stan Druckenmiller Just Invested In a Cryptocurrency That's Designed to Be Boring (Bloomberg)
  • ICO Investors Aren’t Laughing at Crypto Founder’s Publicity Stunt (Bloomberg)
  • Bitcoin heist suspect in Iceland flees on Prime Minister’s plane (Politico)
  • An entrepreneur won a lunch with Warren Buffett. Now he's looking to beat him with cryptocurrency (CNBC)
    What Bitcoin Is Really Worth May No Longer Be Such a Mystery (Bloomberg Gadfly)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Feb. 19, 2018

2/25/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Feb. 19

Markets & Economy:
  • Is a 3% Treasury yield good new or bad? For now, investors say good. (WSJ)
  • Companies could get more flexibility to launch IPOs (WSJ)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Public pensions are still betting half of all assets on stocks (WSJ)
  • SEC says it hasn’t registered ICOs - but plenty might be taking the backdoor (Marketwatch)
  • Florida teachers demand their retirement fund dump gun stocks (Bloomberg)
  • Overweight on index funds: A not terribly bright idea idea for Harvard (Bloomberg)
Long(er) Reads:
  • The case against Google (NYT Magazine)
Alternatives:
  • Endowments Should Scale Back Hedge Fund Holdings, Commonfund's CEO Says (Bloomberg)
  • Carlyle's David Rubenstein says geopolitical 'black swan' only worry for markets in next two years (CNBC)
  • $34bn Hedge Fund Elliott Management Says a 'Dénouement' Is Approaching — And It's a Disaster Waiting to Happen (Business Insider)
  • How gargantuan can private equity get? (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • How Pro Publica Became Big Tech’s Scariest Watchdog (Fastcodesign.com)
  • This is a Generic LinkedIn Rant (McSweeney’s)
  • Vox Media lays off 5% of its staff as the pivot-to-video bloodbath continues (FastCompany)
  • Why is the Manhattan DA looking at Newsweek’s ties to a Christian university? (Newsweek’s former reporters)
  • Why the Newsweek firings are bad for press freedom (CJR)
  • The Atlantic plans a hiring spree (NYT)
  • Gothamist lives, thanks to a boost from public radio (Wired)​
Technology:
  • His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming (NYT)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Feb. 4, 2018

2/11/2018

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You know it's a crazy week in the markets when Liz Claman goes on The Daily Show. 

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

Markets & Economy:
  • Machines had fingerprints all over a Dow rout for the ages (Bloomberg)
  • The stock market didn’t get tested - you did (WSJ)
  • Cryptocurrencies are created all the time. Meet Dogecoin. (NPR)
  • We all have a stake in the stock market, right? Guess again (NYT)
  • Ordinary investors didn't panic when the market plunged (Bloomberg)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • SEC announces 2018 exam priorities (SEC)
  • The death of private banking (Euromoney)  
  • InvestmentNews research and State Street Global Advisors release new study, "Women in advice: inspiring the next generation of financial advisers" (Investment News)
  • US asset managers shake up equity research as banks cut back (Reuters)
Long(er) Reads:
  • A video game about the death of the American mall (Bloomberg)
  • Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico (The New York Times)
  • How WeWork has perfectly captured the millennial id (The Atlantic)
  • Silicon Valley's Tax-Avoiding, Job-Killing, Soul-Sucking Machine (Esquire)
  • The Amazon-ification of Whole Foods (The Atlantic)
Alternatives:
  • Defined contribution participants need equal access to the markets (Pensions & Investments)
  • Hedge funds had best returns in seven years before turmoil (Bloomberg)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • How Bell Pottinger, P.R. Firm for Despots and Rogues, Met Its End in South Africa (The New York Times)
  • What the Hell Is Going on at Newsweek? (The Outline)
  • A toast to undercover journalism’s greatest coup, when reporters bought a bar (CJR)
  • Tronc Sells The Los Angeles Times to Local Billionaire for $500 Million
  • Vice investors are getting antsy (WSJ)
  • Weinstein-BlackCube surveillance claims expose aggressive tactics to kill a story (Committee to Protect Journalists)
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Weekly Financial News Roundup for the Week of Jan. 28, 2018

2/4/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Jan. 28

Markets & Economy:
  • Tales from the bleeding edge of credit (WSJ)
  • Report says U.S. is world’s second biggest tax haven (Bloomberg)
  • After stock market rout, investors fear markets falling in lockstep (WSJ)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • #MeToo movement puts pressure on U.S. banks to disclose diversity date (Reuters)
  • People are bragging about becoming 401(k) millionaires — and posting their balances to social media (MarketWatch)
Long(er) Reads:
  • The mysterious private company controlling corporate America (Institutional Investor)
  • Why You Can’t Quit Amazon Prime, Even Though You Maybe Should (Washington Post)
  • Financial engineering killed the art of investing (Institutional Investor)
Alternatives:
  • PwC: Sovereign wealth funds increasing allocations to alternatives (P&I)
  • Renaissance hedge fund sees significant risk of market correction (Bloomberg)
  • Why Illinois got out of the hedges (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • L.A. journalism’s prince of darkness (Columbia Journalism Review)
  • Adam Mousseri, Facebook’s head of news feed,i has become an unlikely good guy to publishers (Digiday)
  • Tackling the Internet’s Central Villain: The Advertising Business (NYT)
  • A gadget junkie, wearing his tech and covering deals (NYT)
  • What reporters think when sources ask to see their articles before publication (Post Bulletin)
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Weekly Financial News Roundup for the Week of Jan. 21, 2018

1/28/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Jan. 21

Markets & Economy:
  • Let Me Tell You Some More About Bitcoin—Hello? Hello? (Wall Street Journal)
  • Where Would Stocks Be Now if Hillary Clinton Were President? (Wall Street Journal)
  • PwC CEO report: Looking to the future with optimism and anxiety (PwC)
  • The rise of the contract workers (NPR Special Series)
  • NYSE and NASDAQ fight CBOE to keep grip on stock market close (WSJ)​
Long(er) Reads:
  • My Ten-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis (The Wall Street Journal)
  • Improving Workplace Culture, One Review at a Time (The New Yorker)
  • Beyond the Bitcoin bubble (NYT Magazine)
  • Your Smartphone Could be Fueling the Latin American Drug Trade and Terrorism (Newsweek)
Alternatives:
  • How hedge funds (secretly) get their way in Washington (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • HuffPost, breaking from its roots, ends unpaid contributions (NYT)
  • How to win founders and influence everybody (Wired)
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