The 40 Highest-Earning Hedge Fund Managers And Traders
From Forbes….good work if you can get it. I have snipped out the top ten from here –
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I was constantly amazed at how brokers via their analysts were constantly telling other businesses how to run their business. This was amazing to me because outside of any and all aspects of the Greek economy, stockbroking firms were the worst run businesses I had ever seen. What is interesting is that this unsolicited advice…
DetailsHuman Extinction
Well this is depressing but it looks at risk which is central to our business… The Atlantic……Bostrom, who directs Oxford’s Future of Humanity Institute, has argued over the course of several papers that human extinction risks are poorly understood and, worse still, severely underestimated by society. Some of these existential risks are fairly well known, especially…
DetailsBillion Dollar Start Ups
Courtesy of: Infographix Directory
Billionaires In The World
Dont ask me why I looked this up – I was bored.
Academia Is Late To The Party Again….
This article popped into my inbox this morning – Where the Black Swans Hide & the 10 Best Days Myth Here is the abstract – Below we examine market outliers in financial markets. How much effect do these outliers have on long term performance? Can the investor prepare for these anomalies, or are they truly…
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We are all looking a bit ordinary compared to the Nikkei
Gangster Bankers
People may have outrage fatigue about Wall Street, and more stories about billionaire greedheads getting away with more stealing often cease to amaze. But the HSBC case went miles beyond the usual paper-pushing, keypad-punching sort-of crime, committed by geeks in ties, normally associated with Wall Street. In this case, the bank literally got away with…
DetailsWhy We Lose At Games
I recently came across this paper Complex Dynamics in Learning Complicated Games which looks at why some games are easy to master whereas some harder skill based games such as Go or chess are much harder to master. In simple games with a limited number of moves the most effective strategy is fairly easy to…
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