Wall Street Journal: Yoga Bears: It’s No Stretch to Say Traders Are Taking Deep Breaths
Billionaire fund managers Paul Tudor Jones and William Gross both practice Ashtanga, an active form of yoga that involves flowing through a set series of poses. Bond-fund guru Mr. Gross, a founder of Pimco, does yoga five days a week and says some of his best ideas come when he is standing on his head , or sirsasana, supported by the forearms on the floor.
D.E. Shaw, a $39 billion New York hedge fund known for using complex computer models, recently started offering hourlong yoga classes at the office.
Finance “is the antithesis of what yoga is about in terms of inner peace,”
Given the volatility in our markets this month, we too need some Yogic relaxation.
Economist: A time for pruning
Now hedge funds are trying to market themselves to pension funds and endowments. What those clients want is a controlled balance between risk and reward, and a return t...
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Financial Times: GaveKal’s four ways to make money
. . . how money managers can make money in the current conditions -
1. Run some kind of momentum trade
2. Run some kind of return to the mean trade
3. Run some kind of carry trade
4. Run some kind of negative carry-trade
Via Big Picture , Welling @ Weeden: Inflation Not The Problem
The Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc (RBS LN) has the largest rights issue in European history, and everybody cheers it! It ma... more
Business Standard: RBI`s double whammy makes India Inc see red
RBI raised the repo rate, or the rate at which it lends to banks, by 50 basis points to 8.50 per cent. The cash reserve ratio, or the proportion of deposits kept with the central bank, will be increased by 50 basis points to 8.75 per cent.
While the repo rate has been increased to 8.50 per cent with immediate effect, the CRR hike will be implemented in two phases: To 8.50 per cent from the fortnight starting July 5, and t... more
Morgan Stanley: Inflation Outlook − Three Scenarios
What Is Driving WPI to Higher Levels?
We divide the WPI items into four groups: 1) food; 2) fuel and electricity; 3) global commodities ex-mineral oil; and 4) non-food, non-global commodities. The bulk of the acceleration in headline inflation from the low of 3.1% during the week ended November 24, 2007, to the current peak of 11.89% during the week ended June 28, 2008, has been driven by the rise in food,... more
I’m a fan of interviews and - thanks to Maoxian / Market Folly -Â came across the latest Institutional Investor’s Hedge Fund Hall of Fame, featuring interviews with:
Bruce Kovner , James Simons , Julian Robertson , George Soros , Michael Steinhardt , Kenneth Griffin , Seth Klarman , David Swensen , Steven Cohen , Leon Levy , Jack Nash , Louis Bacon , Alfred Winslow Jones , Paul Tudor Jones
Some of these were also featured in Schwager’s famous Market Wi... more
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