Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market and Executive Editor of the Harvard Busienss Review Group publications, doesn’t think there is much mystery to Carl Icahn’s investing philosophy, although few have actually generated Icahn's level of success.
But regardless of track record, the approach is simple, Fox says. In fact, he thinks his four year old could do the same work.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
On Wednesday, Goldman Sachs announced that its top public relations executive, Lucas van Praag, will retire from the firm in March. Goldman's chief executive and chairman, Lloyd C. Blankfein, made the... Read More
Those that follow my personal account on Twitter will be familiar with my weekly S&P 500 #ChartStorm in which I pick out 10 charts on the S&P 500 to... Read More
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As promised recently we are updating/cleaning the investor resource pages on a regular basis. Last week we updated the pages of Edward Lampert and Bill Ackman, and this week we... Read More
Bruce Berkowitz Fairholme Focused Income Fund annual letter for the year ended December 31, 2014.
Also see Bruce Berkowitz Fairholme: Sears, a complex sum-of-parts story
To the Shareholders and Directors of The... Read More
Real estate investment trusts have been having a difficult time along with the rest of the market recently. However, one firm believes the selloff in REITs is overdone because... Read More
Are Lower Private Equity Returns The New Normal? by Eileen Appelbaum and Rosemary Batt - Center for Economic and Policy Research
Executive Summary
U.S. private equity fundraising had its best year... Read More
Warren Buffett, Bill Gates and Charlie Munger talk taxes, Bitcoin and technology with FBN’s Liz Claman.
Warren Buffett, Charlie Munger and Bill Gates Interview
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Lemelson Capital Management, a private investment management firm, today announced that BarclayHedge, a global leader in fund performance ranking and assessment, has ranked The Amvona Fund as the world’s... Read More
This post is an expanded version of my comments on Wells Fargo from our recent mid-year letter to investors (please see here for the current letter; or to receive future... Read More
Richard Maraviglia and Matt Barkoff, portfolio managers at the Carlson Capital Black Diamond Thematic hedge fund, enjoy "thinking about the economy in a different way to consensus.” The “consensus”... Read More
