Financial and media news roundup for the week of July 17, 2016

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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Long Reads:

• Google X continues to search for profits (NYT)
  
• The impact of Roger Ailes (NPR)
  

Alternatives:

• Is Bridgewater shrinking? (NYT)
  
• Private Equity minority deals on the rise (Law360)
  
• Fundraising for PE secondaries funds hits at record in 2H 2016 (FinAlts)
  
• These hedge funds are killing it this year (Business Insider)
  
• Hedge funds open door to allay fears of secrecy (Financial Times)
  
• Preqin’s special report on the outlook for hedge funds (Preqin)
  
• Inside the high-profile downfall of an $8 billion hedge fund (Bloomberg)
  
• Investors saying no to funds of funds (New York Post)
  

Fin-Tech

• Elon Musk releases his second master plan for Tesla (BBC)
  
• Verizon expected to buy Yahoo for $5 billion (Reuters)
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Review of Jeff Bezos’ plans for the Washington Post (Newsweek)
  
• Business Insider hits 100 million unique monthly visitors (Business Insider)
  
• Inside the Politico Break-Up (Washingtonian)
  
• Fox Business and Maria Bartiromo get more political (Variety)