Financial News Roundup for the Week of Sept. 17, 2017

What We've Been Reading - Week of Sept. 17

Markets & Economy:

• Bump in U.S. Incomes Doesn’t Erase 50 Years of Pain (NYT)
• Norway’s sovereign wealth fund hits $1 trillion (Bloomberg)
• This Hedge Fund Investor Says China Bears Are Missing Something (Bloomberg - features our client, Mark Yusko)​

Asset/Wealth Management:

• Harvard endowment posts “disappointing” return for 2017 (Harvard)

Long(er) Reads:

• Frank Abagnale Jr. has a warning for today’s consumers (WSJ)

Alternatives:

• Conversation with Ray Dalio (BloombergTV)
• Private Equity for Cheapskates Like You (WSJ)
• Funds-of-Funds Most Likely to Receive Preferential Hedge Fund Terms (II)
• Investors seeing big promises from secondary market (P&I)
• Hedge Fund Tried to Resurrect Crisis-Era Tool: the ‘Side Pocket’ (WSJ)
• How $5 billion of debt caught up with Toys 'R' Us (Reuters)
• Managers bowing more to needs of institutional clients (P&I)
• Texas Endowment Hits Brakes on Private Equity as Values Rise (Bloomberg)

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Who’d create a PR crisis on purpose? Well, only the sweat was real (NYT)
• This former hedge fund guy is a one-man nonprofit investigating some of America’s shadiest companies (Nieman Lab)
• A NYT reporter’s accidental scoop (NYT)
• Bloomberg to Launch Arabic Language TV (CNN)