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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Feb. 19, 2018

2/25/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Feb. 19

Markets & Economy:
  • Is a 3% Treasury yield good new or bad? For now, investors say good. (WSJ)
  • Companies could get more flexibility to launch IPOs (WSJ)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Public pensions are still betting half of all assets on stocks (WSJ)
  • SEC says it hasn’t registered ICOs - but plenty might be taking the backdoor (Marketwatch)
  • Florida teachers demand their retirement fund dump gun stocks (Bloomberg)
  • Overweight on index funds: A not terribly bright idea idea for Harvard (Bloomberg)
Long(er) Reads:
  • The case against Google (NYT Magazine)
Alternatives:
  • Endowments Should Scale Back Hedge Fund Holdings, Commonfund's CEO Says (Bloomberg)
  • Carlyle's David Rubenstein says geopolitical 'black swan' only worry for markets in next two years (CNBC)
  • $34bn Hedge Fund Elliott Management Says a 'Dénouement' Is Approaching — And It's a Disaster Waiting to Happen (Business Insider)
  • How gargantuan can private equity get? (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • How Pro Publica Became Big Tech’s Scariest Watchdog (Fastcodesign.com)
  • This is a Generic LinkedIn Rant (McSweeney’s)
  • Vox Media lays off 5% of its staff as the pivot-to-video bloodbath continues (FastCompany)
  • Why is the Manhattan DA looking at Newsweek’s ties to a Christian university? (Newsweek’s former reporters)
  • Why the Newsweek firings are bad for press freedom (CJR)
  • The Atlantic plans a hiring spree (NYT)
  • Gothamist lives, thanks to a boost from public radio (Wired)​
Technology:
  • His 2020 Campaign Message: The Robots Are Coming (NYT)
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Financial News Roundup for the week of Feb. 11, 2018

2/18/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Feb. 11

Markets & Economy:
  • Chinese companies halt trading to shelter from stocks’ dive (WSJ)
  • Most mini-IPOs fail the market test (Barron’s)
  • The cryptocurrency craze is hindering the search for extraterrestrial life (BBC)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • What I learned from my quest for loose change (WSJ)
  • An Uber driver’s investment tip confirmed Paul Britton’s doubts on XIV (Bloomberg)
Long(er) Reads:
  • Wall Street trader, NFL players hit hard by mob-linked scheme (NY Daily News)
  • Nominees for the 2018 World Press Photo contest (The Atlantic)
Alternatives:
  • What big hedge fund fees pay for (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
  • Buyout firms haven’t forgotten how to be hostile (Bloomberg)
  • The new wizards of Wall Street (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • The Idolatry of Journalism (National Review)
  • Unilever warns Facebook and Google to clean up online “swamp” or it will pull advertising (USA Today)
  • Here’s a Commentary That We Need Right Now (City Journal)
  • Dow Jones nearing 3 million subscribers (TalkingBizNews)
  • Amazon becomes PR genius, for good or ill (Bloomberg)​

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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Feb. 4, 2018

2/11/2018

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You know it's a crazy week in the markets when Liz Claman goes on The Daily Show. 

What We've Been Reading - Week of Feb. 4

Markets & Economy:
  • Machines had fingerprints all over a Dow rout for the ages (Bloomberg)
  • The stock market didn’t get tested - you did (WSJ)
  • Cryptocurrencies are created all the time. Meet Dogecoin. (NPR)
  • We all have a stake in the stock market, right? Guess again (NYT)
  • Ordinary investors didn't panic when the market plunged (Bloomberg)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • SEC announces 2018 exam priorities (SEC)
  • The death of private banking (Euromoney)  
  • InvestmentNews research and State Street Global Advisors release new study, "Women in advice: inspiring the next generation of financial advisers" (Investment News)
  • US asset managers shake up equity research as banks cut back (Reuters)
Long(er) Reads:
  • A video game about the death of the American mall (Bloomberg)
  • Making a Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico (The New York Times)
  • How WeWork has perfectly captured the millennial id (The Atlantic)
  • Silicon Valley's Tax-Avoiding, Job-Killing, Soul-Sucking Machine (Esquire)
  • The Amazon-ification of Whole Foods (The Atlantic)
Alternatives:
  • Defined contribution participants need equal access to the markets (Pensions & Investments)
  • Hedge funds had best returns in seven years before turmoil (Bloomberg)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • How Bell Pottinger, P.R. Firm for Despots and Rogues, Met Its End in South Africa (The New York Times)
  • What the Hell Is Going on at Newsweek? (The Outline)
  • A toast to undercover journalism’s greatest coup, when reporters bought a bar (CJR)
  • Tronc Sells The Los Angeles Times to Local Billionaire for $500 Million
  • Vice investors are getting antsy (WSJ)
  • Weinstein-BlackCube surveillance claims expose aggressive tactics to kill a story (Committee to Protect Journalists)
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Weekly Financial News Roundup for the Week of Jan. 28, 2018

2/4/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Jan. 28

Markets & Economy:
  • Tales from the bleeding edge of credit (WSJ)
  • Report says U.S. is world’s second biggest tax haven (Bloomberg)
  • After stock market rout, investors fear markets falling in lockstep (WSJ)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • #MeToo movement puts pressure on U.S. banks to disclose diversity date (Reuters)
  • People are bragging about becoming 401(k) millionaires — and posting their balances to social media (MarketWatch)
Long(er) Reads:
  • The mysterious private company controlling corporate America (Institutional Investor)
  • Why You Can’t Quit Amazon Prime, Even Though You Maybe Should (Washington Post)
  • Financial engineering killed the art of investing (Institutional Investor)
Alternatives:
  • PwC: Sovereign wealth funds increasing allocations to alternatives (P&I)
  • Renaissance hedge fund sees significant risk of market correction (Bloomberg)
  • Why Illinois got out of the hedges (WSJ)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • L.A. journalism’s prince of darkness (Columbia Journalism Review)
  • Adam Mousseri, Facebook’s head of news feed,i has become an unlikely good guy to publishers (Digiday)
  • Tackling the Internet’s Central Villain: The Advertising Business (NYT)
  • A gadget junkie, wearing his tech and covering deals (NYT)
  • What reporters think when sources ask to see their articles before publication (Post Bulletin)
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Weekly Financial News Roundup for the Week of Jan. 21, 2018

1/28/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Jan. 21

Markets & Economy:
  • Let Me Tell You Some More About Bitcoin—Hello? Hello? (Wall Street Journal)
  • Where Would Stocks Be Now if Hillary Clinton Were President? (Wall Street Journal)
  • PwC CEO report: Looking to the future with optimism and anxiety (PwC)
  • The rise of the contract workers (NPR Special Series)
  • NYSE and NASDAQ fight CBOE to keep grip on stock market close (WSJ)​
Long(er) Reads:
  • My Ten-Year Odyssey Through America’s Housing Crisis (The Wall Street Journal)
  • Improving Workplace Culture, One Review at a Time (The New Yorker)
  • Beyond the Bitcoin bubble (NYT Magazine)
  • Your Smartphone Could be Fueling the Latin American Drug Trade and Terrorism (Newsweek)
Alternatives:
  • How hedge funds (secretly) get their way in Washington (Bloomberg Businessweek)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • HuffPost, breaking from its roots, ends unpaid contributions (NYT)
  • How to win founders and influence everybody (Wired)
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Weekly Financial News Roundup for the end of 2017

1/1/2018

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 17 and Dec. 24

Markets & Economy:
  • Interview with CEO of small-cap that soared 2000% after acquiring blockchain company (Video-CNBC)
  • Can central banks keep control of interest rates? (WSJ)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Future looking bright for active management (Pensions & Investments)
  • Kanye gifts Kim hundreds of thousands of dollars in stocks (New York Post)
  • Pension funds’ dilemma: What to buy when nothing is cheap? (WSJ)

Long(er) Reads:
  • Hamilton Fights the Laws of Economics (and Loses) (Bloomberg)
  • Bloomberg Tech’s year in photos (Bloomberg)

Alternatives:
  • Trump still committed to ending carried interest (CNBC.com)
  • Big Hedge Funds Want In on Bitcoin (WSJ)
  • Year of the Exit: Veteran Hedge Fund Managers Leave Industry (Bloomberg)
  • Private equity applauds tax bill (Axios)
  • Subprime Auto Defaults Are Soaring, and PE Firms Have No Way Out (Bloomberg)
  • TPG to Pay Nearly $13 Million Over Accelerated Monitoring Fees (WSJ)
  • Crypto, Taxes & Volatility: A Hedge Fund Watch List For 2018 (Bloomberg)
  • Hurricane-hit catastrophe bond managers plan new funds (Reuters)
  • Hedge fund manager Gorton sues firm over fraudulent tax advice (AccountingToday)
  • 4Q 2017 PitchBook Analyst Note: 2018 Private Equity Outlook (Pitchbook)
  • Managers eager to see return of disruption, volatility (P&I)
  • Neuberger Unit Takes Minority Stake in Cerberus’s Credit Arm (WSJ)
  • Steven Cohen Plans a New Hedge Fund. Investors Are Wary. (NYT)

    Media Industry and Journalism:​
Andrew Ross Sorkin on the origins and future of DealBook (NYT)
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Trailer for The China Hustle

12/22/2017

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Here's the trailer for The China Hustle, a new documentary that features some of our clients including Dan David of GEOInvesting and Carson Block of Muddy Waters Capital. In theaters and on-demand on March 30.  
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Dec. 10, 2017

12/17/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 10
Markets & Economy:
  • The global economy is partying like it’s 2008 (NYT)
  • Introducing the “Trump Policy Indices” for Wall Street (NYT)
  • Not Your Grandmother’s I.M.F. (Freakonomics Radio)

Asset/Wealth Management:
  • The Private Firefighters Protecting California’s Mansions From Wildfires (WSJ Video)
  • Is there really a retirement savings crisis? (WSJ)

Long(er) Reads:
  • Jim Simons, the numbers king (New Yorker)
  • Millions of People Post Comments on Federal Regulations. Many Are Fake (WSJ)
  • What’s eating Bill Ackman (II)

Alternatives:
  • Why private equity wants a piece of the RIA market (InvestmentNews)
  • Chinese regulator cracks down on booming hedge fund industry (Bloomberg)
  • KKR makes public bet on private credit (Reuters)
  • It’s Getting Cheaper to Invest in Private Debt (II)
  • New CalPERS board member leery of private equity takeover (P&I)

Media Industry and Journalism:
  • WSJ defends coverage of Dallas asset manager (TalkingBizNews)
  • Business Insider drops “Business” from its name as it broadens coverage, distribution (WSJ)
  • How Forbes is restructuring (Digiday)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Dec. 3, 2017

12/10/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Dec. 3

Markets & Economy:
  • How NAFTA talks are harming Christmas tree growers (Bloomberg)
  • Was your identify stolen to push for net neutrality repeal? (Slate)
  • A tale of two bubbles - the dot coms and bitcoin (MarketWatch)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • Morgan Stanley will launch roboadvisor (Business Insider)
  • Bear Stearns’ last CEO tries to keep Guggenheim together (Bloomberg)
Long(er) Reads:
  • How Dollar General became rural America’s store of choice (WSJ)
  • Millions are hounded for debt they don’t owe, one fought back with avengence (Bloomberg BusinessWeek)
Alternatives:
  • Hedge funds plan to trade against bitcoin (Bloomberg)
  • SEC said to probe is banks helped hedge funds inflate returns (Bloomberg)
  • CalPERS Chief Operating Investment Officer Steps Down (II)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • Fortune’s faded glory (O’Dwyers)
  • How brands buy their way into high-profile stories and blogs (The Outline)
  • New York Times announces nearly doubling its audience (NYT)
  • WNYC confronts its own sexual harassment demons (WNYC/NPR On the Media)
What the changes mean at the Wall Street Journal (TalkingBizNews)
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Financial News Roundup for the Week of Nov. 27, 2017

12/3/2017

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What We've Been Reading - Week of Nov. 27

Markets & Economy:
  • Who’s afraid of index funds? (WSJ)
  • Chance of U.S. stock market correction at 70%: Vanguard Group (CNBC)
Asset/Wealth Management:
  • What makes a safe asset safe (NY Federal Reserve)
  • In Search of the Elusive Bitcoin Billionaire (Reason)
Long(er) Reads:
  • What to worry about in this surreal bull market (Bloomberg)
  • Would You Take Out a Loan for a Pair of Jeans? (Racked)
Alternatives:
  • Public funds seeing hedge fund returns back in the black (P&I)
  • These 10 stocks most loved by hedge funds are crushing the market, Goldman says (CNBC.com)
  • Hedge funds too busy trying to survive to invest in AI (Bloomberg)
  • Alts managers to cover StuyTown in solar panels (P&I)
  • Minority- and Women-Owned Private Equity Firms Outstrip Benchmarks (ThinkAdvisor)
  • New ETFs Attempt to Mimic the Portfolios of Private Equity (Bloomberg)
Media Industry and Journalism:
  • A failure of the network star system (NYT)
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