27 Mar 2019

Hedge Fund blows up - where was Citi's risk management?

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If the lenders - in this case Citigroup is quoted - of liquidity don't manage their risk and losses result it is easy to blame the hedge...
6 Mar 2019

Pay Gap reporting - nothing but an Employment Scheme?

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Ever since Pay Reporting for senior Executives became standard practice (and started an upward spiral of executive compensation) virtue sign...
8 Jan 2019

Yellow Vest Protests - France

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Violence certainly is not a pleasant experience but neither is life under a semi-democratic state that gives citizens no say except in a box...
4 Dec 2018

Balyasny said to cut 125 People

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It is quite amazing that a Hedge Fund - or any Investment Manager - with an AuM just under $12 billion can have a cast of hundreds, more tha...
1 Mar 2018

RBS/Natwest worried about Irish Border question

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One should think that RBS/Natwest has more problems than this one. Not sure why there is such a fuss about the Northern Ireland border. Simp...
21 Dec 2017

Beware of Age Discrimination with targeted Ads

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Facebook job ads allow age discrimination lawsuit claims (Marketwatch)
6 Dec 2017

Bitcoin: Regulators wash their hands - too long for some?

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While some are supposed to have become rich due to the wonders of the digital "currency" hype one should remember that this is a g...

Bitcoin: Regulators wash their hands - too long for some?

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While some are supposed to have become rich due to the wonders of the digital "currency" hype one should remember that this is a g...
1 Dec 2017

Bitcoins: The drumbeat goes on

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The drumbeat goes on, any number of self-appointed 'experts'  push bitcoin etal, still not clear what 'value' it has or pro...
29 Nov 2017

Active ETF's - just a type of Closed-end fund?

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ETF's have not been really tested in a major market downturn or panic. 2008-09 does not count as amounts involved were still quite small...