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The rise, fall and rise of the quants
Quantitative analysis ( quantitative news) is the subject of a new book that's benefiting at least from sheer topicality. It's no secret that Wall Street was smitten with this new, modern approach to technical analysis. It seemed almost passé until a new breed of math geek took over.
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Hedge fund investors' medium-term memory
We noted recently that hedge funds are having an easier time at fund raising than private equity funds. In fact, hedge funds took in $54 billion in new investments in August, September, October and November before a slight drop off of about $4 billion in December. But no one should assume that inv
Goldman Sachs' pay plan: A few fine print issues
Goldman Sachs' plan to pay its top 30 executives in shares-at-risk, which cannot be cashed out for five years, generated a lot of media attention. Most noted that the plan was a response to the PR needs that have engulfed the firm. No doubt a critical benefit is the ability to respond to critics o
These men want to takedown Sarbanes-Oxley
The Supreme Court has taken up the issue of PCAOB constitutionality, which has thrust two Jones Day lawyers Michael Carvin and Noel Francisco into the case of a lifetime. The world sees them as taking on the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 and the entire corporate regulatory edifice that it gave birth
Can VC matter again?
There was a day when venture capital investing really mattered. In the 1990s and much of the 2000s, venture capital was acknowledged as a bright spot in the tech industry and economy; VC investments accounted for an "astonishing" 1.1 percent of U.S. GDP, according to a commentary in Business Wee
Bloomberg, still taking over the world
There was a day when the battle to colonize the desktop on Wall Street and beyond riveted many, when the players went beyond big names like Dow Jones and Reuters to upstarts like EJV (remember them?) and Bloomberg. The latter has, of course, come out on top in many ways.
There's still a lot of
Big questions after acquittals
As Wall Street continues to cheer, the jury acquittals of Ralph Cioffi and Matthew Tannin continue to reverberate. Business Week notes there are plenty of unanswered questions. Chief among them is whether and to what extent the two Bear Stearns hedge fund managers were responsible for massive
Do shareholder suits make sense?
Something has been overlooked a bit in Judge Jed Rakoff's rejection of the SEC's $33 million settlement with Bank of America: The whole concept of shareholder suits.
One reason the judge rejected the deal was that the $33 million would be paid for by shareholders. Those shareholders were in f
How to manage risk really
Risk management is one of those buzzwords that seems inextricably linked to the financial crisis. That's understandable given that risk management practices at top broker dealers have been exposed as woefully antiquated. But Accenture reminds us that risk management extends far beyond the financia
What to do with Fannie and Freddie?
While the big banks seem to be on the mend, slowly anyway, Fannie and Freddie are sinking further into the morass of the credit crisis. You have to wonder how they might be salvaged. Business Week explores the idea of a bad bank to hold all those bad mortgages, with the goal of unwinding them
