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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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