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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Dec. 10, 2017

12/17/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 10
Markets & Economy:
  • The global economy is partying like it’s 2008 (NYT)
  • Introducing the “Trump Policy Indices” for Wall Street (NYT)
  • Not Your Grandmother’s I.M.F. (Freakonomics Radio)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • The Private Firefighters Protecting California’s Mansions From Wildfires (WSJ Video)
  • Is there really a retirement savings crisis? (WSJ)

Long(er) Reads:
  • Jim Simons, the numbers king (New Yorker)
  • Millions of People Post Comments on Federal Regulations. Many Are Fake (WSJ)
  • What’s eating Bill Ackman (II)

Alternatives:
  • Why private equity wants a piece of the RIA market (InvestmentNews)
  • Chinese regulator cracks down on booming hedge fund industry (Bloomberg)
  • KKR makes public bet on private credit (Reuters)
  • It’s Getting Cheaper to Invest in Private Debt (II)
  • New CalPERS board member leery of private equity takeover (P&I)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • WSJ defends coverage of Dallas asset manager (TalkingBizNews)
  • Business Insider drops “Business” from its name as it broadens coverage, distribution (WSJ)
  • How Forbes is restructuring (Digiday)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Dec. 3, 2017

12/10/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 3

Markets & Economy:
  • How NAFTA talks are harming Christmas tree growers (Bloomberg)
  • Was your identify stolen to push for net neutrality repeal? (Slate)
  • A tale of two bubbles - the dot coms and bitcoin (MarketWatch)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Morgan Stanley will launch roboadvisor (Business Insider)
  • Bear Stearns’ last CEO tries to keep Guggenheim together (Bloomberg)
Long(er) Reads:
  • How Dollar General became rural America’s store of choice (WSJ)
  • Millions are hounded for debt they don’t owe, one fought back with avengence (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Alternatives:
  • Hedge funds plan to trade against bitcoin (Bloomberg)
  • SEC said to probe is banks helped hedge funds inflate returns (Bloomberg)
  • CalPERS Chief Operating Investment Officer Steps Down (II)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Fortune’s faded glory (O’Dwyers)
  • How brands buy their way into high-profile stories and blogs (The Outline)
  • New York Times announces nearly doubling its audience (NYT)
  • WNYC confronts its own sexual harassment demons (WNYC/NPR On the Media)
What the changes mean at the Wall Street Journal (TalkingBizNews)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Nov. 27, 2017

12/3/2017

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

Markets & Economy:
  • Who’s afraid of index funds? (WSJ)
  • Chance of U.S. stock market correction at 70%: Vanguard Group (CNBC)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • What makes a safe asset safe (NY Federal Reserve)
  • In Search of the Elusive Bitcoin Billionaire (Reason)
Long(er) Reads:
  • What to worry about in this surreal bull market (Bloomberg)
  • Would You Take Out a Loan for a Pair of Jeans? (Racked)
Alternatives:
  • Public funds seeing hedge fund returns back in the black (P&I)
  • These 10 stocks most loved by hedge funds are crushing the market, Goldman says (CNBC.com)
  • Hedge funds too busy trying to survive to invest in AI (Bloomberg)
  • Alts managers to cover StuyTown in solar panels (P&I)
  • Minority- and Women-Owned Private Equity Firms Outstrip Benchmarks (ThinkAdvisor)
  • New ETFs Attempt to Mimic the Portfolios of Private Equity (Bloomberg)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • A failure of the network star system (NYT)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Nov. 19, 2017

11/26/2017

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

Markets & Economy:
  • Two biggest risks are China and inflation, says market veteran (Bloomberg)
  • The year of living dangerously (Reformed Broker)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Criticism of index funds is ill-directed (The Economist)
Long(er) Reads:
  • Has Crooked Media finally figured out a blue alternative to conservative radio? (NYT Magazine)
Alternatives:
  • David Rubenstein’s five predictions for the future of private equity (Financial News)
  • A Hedge Fund Manager Committed Fraud. Would the U.S. Let Him Go? (NYT)
  • Year's best performing alternative funds (InvestmentNews)
  • Cash sloshes into venture funds, fueling fears of excess (WSJ)
  • Hedge Funds Face New Threat From Traditional Asset Managers (II)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Is the World of Journalism More Like Hollywood Than It Wants to Admit? (National Review)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Nov. 12, 2017

11/19/2017

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

Markets & Economy:
  • The yield curve is flattening and here’s why it matters (Bloomberg)
  • 5 numbers that show just how strong big tech is right now (Bloomberg)
  • Yale’s Swenson sees lack of volatility as “profoundly troubling” (Bloomberg)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Goldman’s dealmakers pack suitcases to chase down smaller game (Bloomberg)

Long(er) Reads:
  • The Last Days of a Tax Haven (Bloomberg)
  • Chaos and hackers stalk investors on crypto currency exchanges (Reuters)
  • SEC releases 2018 enforcement priorities (SEC)
  • Denver’s proposal for Amazon headquarters #2 (Denver Post)
  • Inside the First Church of Artificial Intelligence (Wired)

Alternatives:
  • Private equity fights back on US tax reforms (FT)
  • NEPC Survey: Endowments and Foundations increase PE Exposure despite expecting lower returns (NEPC)
  • The 20 percent club: hedge fund stars of an industry rebound (CNBC.com)
  • Multi-manager hedge funds hook investors with returns recovery (Reuters)
  • Exclusive: Carlyle seeks to raise $1 billion for new energy fund - sources (Reuters)
  • Ultra-Wealthy Families Love Alternative Investments: iCapital (ThinkAdvisor)
  • Overuse of credit adds to PE crunch for pension funds (MMR)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Forbes scaling back to 10 issues a year (NYPost)
    ​Vox Media staffers form a labor union (WSJ)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Nov. 5, 2017

11/12/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Nov. 5

Markets & Economy:
  • Panera CEO: Short-terminism is hurting the economy (Business Insider)
  • Declines in stocks, junk bonds, reveal cracks in global rally (WSJ)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • The Dead Man’s Fund (Longreads.com)

Long(er) Reads:
  • The case of Wilbur Ross’ phantom $2 billion (Forbes)
  • How Robert Mueller Works a Case (TIME)
  • After 20 Years of Financial Turmoil, a Columnist’s Last Shot (New York Times)

Alternatives:
  • Hedge funds are having their best year since 2013 (Bloomberg)
  • Where Are the Women in Alternative Investing? (Institutional Investor)
  • Private-Equity Firms Give Each Other the Backhand (WSJ)
  • The 20 percent club: hedge fund stars of an industry rebound (Reuters)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • WSJ’s Grocer to become DealBook editor (TalkingBizNews)
  • New York Times’ Gretchen Morgenson moves to WSJ (TalkingBizNews)
Mattress Company Shutters Web Publication, Pivots to Print (WSJ)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Oct. 29, 2107

11/5/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Oct. 29

Markets & Economy:
  • Why markets are rising everywhere? Investors keep buying the dip. (WSJ)
  • PetroChina is the biggest stock collapse in history and there’s no end in sight (Bloomberg)
  • Apple should shrink its finance arm before it goes bananas (The Economist)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • As new money rushes into ETFs, a price war breaks out among managers (CNBC.com)
  • Employee stock funds loom large in close proxy battles (Reuters)
  • Inside Blankfein’s Twitter game (FT)
  • The secret to wooing investors, communication (Bloomberg View)
  • The head of JPMorgan’s $2 trn funds business issues a stark warning to a large group of Wall Streeters (Business Insider)
  • ETF heyday is no bonanza for Wall St. (WSJ)
Long(er) Reads:
  • How Floyd Mayweather Helped Two Young Guys from Miami Get Rich (NYT)
  • The family that built an empire of pain (New Yorker)
  • How a fired prosecutor became the most powerful law enforcement official in Louisiana (Washington Post)
Alternatives:
  • Buyout stocks plunge on tax plan (Bloomberg)
  • Short seller Muddy Waters seeks to unmask Google Gmail fraudster (Reuters)
  • Private equity firms oppose tax bill -- but things could be worse (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Please leave politics out of Halloween (New York Post)
  • MarketWatch’s Guiding Principal (MarketWatch)
  • The Economist’s 3 part series on the future of journalism (The Economist)
  • CNN planning to introduce a digital paywall (WSJ)
  • DNAInfo and Gothamist shut down after voting to unionize (NYT)
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Financial News Roundup for the week of Oct. 22, 2017

10/29/2017

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

Markets & Economy:
  • Hunt for yield fuels boom in another complex, risky security (WSJ)
  • Bond traders are piling into a Fed-proof bet (Bloomberg)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Leon Cooperman on Life After an SEC Investigation (Institutional Investor)
  • No, 401(k)s Aren't a “Great and Popular Middle Class Tax Break” (The Atlantic)
Long(er) Reads:
  • The Morningstar Mirage (WSJ)
    • Morningstar response
    • Commentary on the story from Bloomberg and The Reformed Broker
  • Me and My Robotic Suit (Reuters)
Alternatives:
  • GP-LP relationship 'challenged' by transparency demands (PEI)
  • Private equity’s biggest backers are tired of the fees (Bloomberg)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • How The Economist covers come alive (TalkingBizNews)
  • CNBC moves up to #3 business news site (TalkingBizNews)
  • Journalist Who Wrote About Phony Awards Wins Phony Award (FCPA Blog)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Oct. 15, 2017

10/22/2017

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

Markets & Economy:
  • Black Monday at 30 from the Wall Street players who lived it (Bloomberg)
  • Why Investors Can’t Get Enough of Tajikistan’s Debt (NYT)
  • Beneath the market rally - a lot less trading (WSJ)
  • A stock market panic like 1987 could happen again (NYT)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Talk of retirement savings cap rattles financial industry (WSJ)
  • Active Management Picks Up (PlanAdviser)

Long(er) Reads:
  • How essential oils became the cure for our age of anxiety (New Yorker)
  • WeWork: A $20 billion startup fueled by Silicon Valley pixie dust (WSJ)

Alternatives:
  • Barbarians Open Their Gates as Blackstone, Others Seek Retail Cash (WSJ)
  • Blackstone Seeks $10 Billion for Infrastructure (Bloomberg)
  • In defense of private equity (CNBC.com)
  • Counting sheep adds up for PE firms (P&I)
  • ‘Psychopath’ Hedge Fund Managers Make Less Money (Bloomberg)
  • Private equity firms are making a fortune stripping capital out of their companies (Business Insider)
  • Hedge Fund Stars Are Losing Their Sway (Bloomberg)
  • Wealthy families are winning deals away from private equity (Bloomberg)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Who can save journalism (New Yorker)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Sept. 3, 2017

9/10/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Sept. 3

Markets & Economy:
  • Hurricanes Push Fed Off Course (WSJ)
  • Bridgewater’s Ray Dalio spreads his gospel of radical transparency (NYT)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Nasdaq’s latest deal shows that data reigns supreme (Bloomberg)
  • Goldman Sachs Summer Intern Survey (Goldman Sachs)
Long(er) Reads:
  • Jamie Dimon’s $13 billion secret revealed (Vanity Fair)
Alternatives:
  • Flush With Cash, Private Equity Rainmakers Set Out on Their Own (Bloomberg)
  • Steve Cohen’s comeback begins (Bloomberg)
  • Bridgewater's Ray Dalio Dives Deeper Into the 'Principles' of Tough Love (NYT)
  • 'Hedge fund of the year' reportedly got duped by radio star's alleged Ponzi scheme (CNBC.com)
  • Why Alternative Investments Are Bad for Your Portfolio (WSJ)
  • Private Equity Prowls for Young Bankers Early in Frenetic Ritual (Bloomberg)
  • BlackRock is said to be in talks for CalPERS buyout business (P&I)
  • Investors Grow Concerned About Private Equity (II)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • A Staple in New York, The Daily News, Was Just Sold to Tronc (Reuters)
  • At CNN, a retracted story leaves an elite reporting team bruised (NYT)
    NY Time hires Deborah Solomon to cover economics (TalkingBizNews)
  • ​Spinning out of Control (Reuters BreakingViews)
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