Weekly News Roundup for the week of March 5, 2017

What We've Been Reading - Week of March 5

Markets & Economy:

• Hedge funds gird for market selloff (Bloomberg)
  
• Stocks have tripled since the crisis but low rates are still squeezing savers (WSJ)
  
• Explaining a Paradox: Why Good (Bad) Companies can be Bad (Good) Investments! (NYU Professor Aswath Damodoran)
  
• Individuals tiptoe further into long-running stock rally (WSJ)
  

Asset/Wealth Management:

• State Street to vote against companies that don’t have female directors (WSJ)
  
• New force on Wall Street - the family office (WSJ)
  
• The state of state teachers’ pension funds (NYT)
  
• Inside New York’s pension fund scandal: what went unchecked (WSJ)
  

Long(er) Reads:

• The London Whale resurfaces (Financial News)
  
• New York’s vast flop at the WTC (New York Review of Books)
  

Alternatives:

• Banks come in from the cold for hedge fund (Reuters)
  
• Bridgewater’s culture is like a nudist camp at first (NYT)
  
• Apollo seeks $20 billion for new buyout fund (Bloomberg)
  
• Valuation shell game: Silicon Valley’s dirty secret (NYT)
  

Media Industry and Journalism:

• Dow Jones tries a millennial finance site, Moneyish (Digiday)
  
• JetSmarter Tries to Extort Journalists For Favorable Coverage (TheVerge)