Financial News Roundup for the Week of Aug. 7, 2017

What We've Been Reading - Week of Aug. 7

Markets & Economy:

• When will the tech bubble burst? (NYT)
• The world’s most feared investor (Bloomberg)
• Most boring market in decades (AP)
• ​The Fed Has 6,200 Tons of Gold in a Manhattan Basement—Or Does It? (WSJ)

​Asset/Wealth Management:

• Corporate governance standoff comes to a boil over SNAP listing (P&I)
• Billionaire hedge fund titan crushing market says passive indexing making it easier to outperform (CNBC.com)
• Why investors need regulators to promote “clean” mutual funds (Morningstar op-ed in The Hill)
• Are index funds evil? (The Atlantic)
• Dalio’s Quest to Outlive Himself (Bloomberg)
• It Was a Great Year for America’s Pensions, but Many Are Still in Crisis (WSJ)

Long(er) Reads:

• Grampa Had a Pension. This Generation Has Cryptocurrency (NYT)
• How America lost its mind (The Atlantic)

Alternatives:

• Investors Pile Into Private Equity at Greatest Clip Since 2013 (WSJ)
• Asia Hedge Funds Are Dominating 2017 (II)
• PE returns hit two-year high (PEI)
• Mega-Hedge Funds Are Reporting Big Gains (Bloomberg)

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Bloomberg Launches an entirely new model of media (AdWeek)