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My Weekly News Roundup 

10/23/2016

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Oct. 16

The debate over active vs. passive management dominated headlines this week, coinciding with the Wall Street Journal’s launch of ‘The Passivists’; a series of articles exploring the rise of passive investing. The following are some of the more prominent articles covering the subject:

  • Wall Street’s ‘Do Nothing’ Investing Revolution (WSJ)
  • The Dying Business of Picking Stocks (WSJ)
  • Some visual aids in support of the growth of passive management (WSJ)
  • Capital Group’s Timothy Armour in defense of activist investing (WSJ)
  • To succeed, Janus/Henderson merger will need to counter decline of active management (P&I)
  • Cliff Asness weighs in on (Cliff’s Perspective, AQR Blog)  

Markets & Economy:
  • Central banks’ balance sheets soar (Bloomberg)
  • A Nasdaq upgrade threatens IEX (WSJ)
  • Where will the next crisis come from? (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Asset Management:
  • Hedge funds using complex algorithms are gaining an edge (Financial Times)
  • How one Goldman trader made $100M profit for the firm (WSJ)
Long Reads:
  • Steve Cohen’s comeback (Fortune)
Alternatives:
  • Firms look for ways to skirt new CLO rules (WSJ)
  • Hedge funds cost New York state $3.8 billion (Bloomberg)
  • KPMG and MFA release results of their 2016 survey on the hedge fund industry (KPMG)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • MetLife breaks it off with Snoopy (WSJ)
  • ​The Wall Street Journal is cutting newsroom jobs again (CNN)
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