Five Greatest Hedge Fund Farewells

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Five Greatest Hedge Fund Farewells
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0 Things Your Real Estate Broker Won't Say
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FACTBOX: Hedge fund managers name long, short bets
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He can who thinks he can, and he can't who thinks he can't. This is an inexorable, indisputable law.
Pablo Picasso
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About $1.4 trillion in real estate debt is set to mature over the next four years, with some $204 billion coming due this year alone
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The Asian economies are likely to be the first to pull out of the global recession
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Invisible hands:
The secret world of the oil fixer
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Rents Crashing in London to 1991 Prices Le Gavroche Shows Gone
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How I Spent A Million Bucks And Ended Up With These Two Chairs
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The Pussycat Dolls - Jai Ho (You Are My Destiny)
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Perseverance and a 'Thick Skin': India's Next Wave of Entrepreneurs
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Research: The Traveler’s Best Friend
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10 Things to Be Clear About Before You Start a Company
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Procedure involved to Start a Company (Private Limited) in India
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The Britney Spears Problem
Tracking who's hot and who's not presents an algorithmic challenge.
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American excess: A Wall Street trader tells all.
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These Billionaires Actually Got Richer in 2008.* Mayor Mike. Who says government is bad for wealth? Financial-data king and New York City Mayor Michael Blomberg added $4.5 billion to his fortune to rack up a net worth of $16 billion. Forbes doesn’t really give a reason, saying only that it is due to a “re-evaulation” of his company after he bought out Merrill’s stake in news and information provider Bloomberg LP.
* John Paulson. The hedge funder’s Advantage Fund rose 38%, doubling his fortune to $6 billion.
* Jim Simons. The hedge funder’s Medallion Fund surged 80% last year, using “complex algorithms,” giving Mr. Simons a $2.5 billion boost to $8 billion.
* Tadashi Yanai. Japan’s richest guy and his family gained $2.6 billion from their discount clothing business, Fast Retailing.
* George Soros. The king of gloom and doom added $2 billion to his war chest and now has a net worth of $11 billion, largely with bearish bets at his hedge fund.
* John Arnold. The fresh-faced head of Centaurus Energy is said to be up 80% this year, kicking his net up $1.2 billion to $2.7 billion. He now is moving into hard assets like power plants and storage facilities.
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Top 10 Reasons to Start a Business in a Recession
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I found this fascinating quote today:
3) Berkshire's two most important businesses are insurance and utilities, sectors that "produce earnings that are not correlated to those of the general economy."A VC, Mar 2009 You should read the whole article.
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60+ Resources For Entrepreneurs To Step Up and Take Charge
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How to “Win” Arguments and Infuriate Opponents (with examples!)
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gardener can be a referral source to the rich?
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Following high school in Brooklyn, Paulson moved on to New York University, which in the 1970s offered a popular seminar taught by John Whitehead, then a senior partner at Goldman Sachs. Paulson listened, fascinated, as Robert Rubin, later secretary of the Treasury under Bill Clinton and now an unofficial adviser to Barack Obama—talked about the mysterious and new (to Paulson, anyway) world of risk arbitrage. At the time, the scholarly, soft-spoken Rubin was viewed, at least by Paulson’s professor, as the smartest partner at Goldman Sachs; he was certainly the richest. Paulson graduated first in the class of 1978, with visions of arbitrage in his future.
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25 of the Greatest Self-Made Men in American History
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Instead, a white-collar fraudster like Madoff could create multiple phony investment-advisory businesses in foreign countries, similar to legitimate businesses he's actually working with. Says Reich: "All he has to do is create fake invoices over the years and pay in to those fake companies, then create new phony businesses in other countries, have the monies transferred to them, and then close down the original fake businesses. It's how the mob does it; the money trail is wiped clean.
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A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining and wants it back the minute it begins to rain. -Mark Twain
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