My Roundup of Financial News for the week of Dec. 18, 2016

What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 18

Markets & Economy:

• 2016 Was a Very Good Year for Stock Market Contrarians (Wall Street Journal)
• How frackers beat OPEC (The Atlantic)
• Reasons to Be Miserable Don’t Include Bond Yields (WSJ)
• CEOs dumping stock during postelection rally (CNBC)
• Corporate governance should blend PE and family firm models (Harvard Business Review)
• Where to Invest in 2017 (Kiplinger’s Personal Finance)

Asset/Wealth Management:

• CalPERS return cut would be small but notable (Reuters Breakingviews)
• CalPERS rising pension warning bell (Bloomberg)
• ESMA and The Invisible Whistleblower Hotline (Financial Times)
• Prem Watsa: Bet on growth (Bloomberg)
• Natixis launching 401(k) market's first ESG-focused target-date mutual funds (InvestmentNews)
• Young Americans Piled Into Some Horrendous ETF Trades Right After the Election (Bloomberg)
• N.Y. pension fund manager, brokers charged in pay-to-play scheme (Reuters)

Long Reads:

• The secret history of Deloitte’s espionage practice (CNBC)
• Chinese city claims it will outcompete U.S. in tech post tariffs (WSJ)
• The world’s largest hedge fund is building an algorithmic model of its founder’s brain (WSJ)

Alternatives:

• MetLife’s hedge fund chop (Bloomberg)
• A billionaire retrenches in a tough year for hedge funds (WSJ)
• A New Fund Seeks Both Financial and Social Returns (NY Times)
• Hedge fund winners and losers emerge as year ends on a better note (Bloomberg)
• Avaya: How a $9 billion buyout went wrong (WSJ)
• Hedge fund math: Tails we win, heads you lose (NYTimes)

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Journalists have to be tougher on everybody (ReCode)
• 2016's most influential financial Twitter handles (Sentieo)