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Faved by: mohit
Aug 28 2007 - via 72.14.209.104

Quoted: There are three sources of return in a long-short equity portfolio. The most obvious
results from the spread in performance between the stocks that are held long and the
stocks that are sold short, i.e. the alpha on the long positions plus the alpha on the short
positions.

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Faved by: mohit
Aug 15 2008 - via hedgefund.blogspot.com

Quoted: There are two forms of exotic beta. 1) Apply "normal" strategies to "exotic" assets like investing in Namibian and Mongolian equities, timber, shipping freight, wine, uranium, art, movies, violins or footballers. Or 2) apply "exotic" strategies to "normal" securities with new trading styles and finding arbitrages in traditional markets. Personally I prefer alternative strategies for any security ("normal" or "exotic") but then as a risk averse, conservative investor I am not prepared to speculate on traditional OR exotic beta. They are too hazardous for my risk tolerance. Alpha is safer.

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Faved by: derek
Oct 24 2008 - via www.guardian.co.uk

Quoted: The boss of a successful US hedge fund has quit the industry with an extraordinary farewell letter dismissing his rivals as over-privileged "idiots" and thanking "stupid" traders for making him rich.

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Faved by: mohit
Jun 27 2008 - via ca.news.yahoo.com

Quoted: The top 25 managers earned, on average, $877 million in 2007, up from $532 million in 2006.
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This "may well prove to be the greatest display of individual wealth creation in any year in the modern history of finance," Alpha said in the note.

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Faved by: mohit
Jun 24 2008 - via www.techcrunch.com

Quoted: In the post, Twitter cofounder Biz Stone also talks about their aspirations to become a communications utility, and not to worry about the business model too much until their infrastructure is stable.

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Faved by: kohh66
Jul 25 2007 - via www.samuiairportpropertyfund.com

ข้อมูลและรายละเอียดเกี่ยวกับกองทุนรวมอสังหาริมทรัพย์สนามบินสมุย รวมถึงผลการวิเคราะห์และผลการดำเนินงาน

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Faved by: eric
Nov 09 2007 - via www.newyorker.com

James Surowiecki wrote a great piece for The New Yorker on how misaligned hedge-fund manager compensation is.

Quoted: The New Yorker

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Faved by: mohit
Oct 29 2007 - via biz.yahoo.com

Quoted: ETFs, which have exploded onto the investing scene over the past few years, are basically index mutual funds with one hugely important difference. They trade during the day. By that I mean their price changes constantly throughout the day, based on what buyers and sellers are willing to pay at any given moment while the stock market is open.
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Actively managed funds have a whopping tragic flaw. When you buy actively managed fund shares, you literally inherit all the capital gains that fund owns. That means you could invest on Monday, and if on Wednesday the fund made a capital gains distribution, you would be stuck paying the tax on the distribution even though you didn't own the shares long enough to enjoy any of that gain.

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Faved by: mohit
Oct 25 2007 - via www.techcrunch.com

Quoted: Consider this a rumor at this point.
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If true, that would give Facebook a $750 million war chest, which is more than most companies make in an IPO. That should be more than enough to pay for those 700 employees next year.

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Faved by: emilyml
Oct 01 2007 - via seattlepi.nwsource.com

Sad!

Quoted: After learning last week that city funding for the Cascade People's Center is not being renewed, program director Myla Becker said the center will have to shut down at the end of the year...

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