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

12/27/2016

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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)
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