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Can Central Banks Save The World?
David Chance of Reuters reports, Central bank cavalry can no longer save the world:In 2008 central banks, led by the Federal Reserve, rode to the rescue of the global financial system. Seven years on...
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Another Shakeout in Hedge Funds?
Saijel Kishan and Simone Foxman of Bloomberg report, Fortress, Bain Lead Hedge Funds Liquidating in Market Volatility:Fortress Investment Group LLC and Bain Capital are leading the list of big-name...
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Where Are the Pension Fund Heroes?
Dan McCrum of the Financial Times asks, Where are the pension fund heroes?:Here is a request, or perhaps a challenge, for nominations: which pension schemes are any good at picking hedge funds?The...
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The Theranos Edge?
John Carreyrou of the Wall Street Journal reports, Hot Startup Theranos Has Struggled With Its Blood-Test Technology:On Theranos Inc.’s website, company founder Elizabeth Holmes holds up a tiny vial to...
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The Subprime Unicorn Boom in Tech?
Michael Moritz, chairman of Sequoia Capital, wrote a very critical opinion piece for the Financial Times,The subprime ‘unicorns’ that do not look a billion dollars:The private and public worlds of...
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Real Change to Canada's Pension Plan?
Last week, Keith Leslie of the Globe and Mail reported, Wynne says Ontario may drop pension plan if Liberals win election:Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne suggested Tuesday that her government would drop...
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A Brutal Year For Top Hedge Funds?
Jeff Cox of CNBC reports, Hedge funds see worst year since financial crisis: Hedge fund performance over the past three months hearkened back to the bad old days of the financial crisis.Poor...
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A Solution to America's Retirement Crisis?
Tom DiChristopher of CNBC reports, Millennials face 'Great Depression' in retirement: Blackstone COO:Americans in their 20s and 30s are facing a retirement crisis that could plunge them back into the...
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Four Views on DB vs DC Plans?
Nick Thornton of Benefitpro reports, DC vs DB: 4 views on new EBRI data (h/t, Pension Tsunami): This week’s new data from the Employee Benefits Research Institute adds a new dimension to the vital...
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2015 Global Ranking of Top Pensions
Chris Flood of the Financial Times reports, Global ranking of top pension funds: Denmark and the Netherlands are the only two countries with pension systems that could be regarded as “first class”,...
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Which Bond Bubble Worries Her Most?
Jeff Cox of CNBC reports, Junk bond market betting big against Fed rate hike:Traders have been using junk to bet against the possibility that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates anytime...
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CPPIB Goes Bollywood?
Barbara Shecter of the National Post reports, CPPIB adds Mumbai to list of global offices, commits to stake in Cablevision:The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board has opened an office in Mumbai to...
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Breaking Ontario's Pension Logjam?
Adam Mayers of the Toronto Star reports, How a 30-minute chat with Trudeau broke Ontario’s pension logjam:Justin Trudeau came to town Tuesday and managed to achieve, in a 30-minute meeting with the...
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The Quiet Screwing of America?
Suzanne Woolley of Bloomberg reports, You're About to Get Too Expensive for Your Pension Plan:The federal budget deal could speed the long, lingering death of old-fashioned defined-benefit pension...
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America's Pension Justice?
Julia Lurie of Mother Jones reports, 100 CEOs Have More in Retirement Savings Than 41 Percent of Americans Combined (h/t, Suzanne Bishopric):You've heard about income inequality—about how, for example,...
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Towards a New Macroeconomics?
Larry Summers, Harvard professor and former Treasury Secretary and director of the National Economic Council in the White House, wrote a comment for the Washington Post, Advanced economies are so sick...
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Pension Fix By Congress Could Backfire?
John W. Schoen of CNBC reports, Pension 'fix' by Congress could backfire:The latest effort by Congress to save your pension may be putting it further at risk.Tucked away in last week's bipartisan...
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2015 Hedge Fund Bets Gone Awry?
Laurence Fletcher of the Wall street Journal reports, Hedge Funds Hit by Rebound in Global Stocks:Shorting Glencore PLC was a painful bet for some hedge funds.Big-name European funds, including ones...
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Prepare For a December Rate Hike?
Jeffry Bartash of MarketWatch reports, U.S. creates 271,000 jobs in October as labor market heats back up:Companies added new jobs in October at the fastest pace of 2015, knocking the U.S. unemployment...
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Retire in EU Style?
Jake Burman of the Express reports, Now UK taxpayers forced to contribute billions towards Brussels bureaucrats' pensions:The cost of pensions for retired EU civil servants and MEPs has seen the EU's...
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