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Warren Makes a Bet It's All About Values Hedging Your Bet Mean Reversion of National Wealth New York, Las Vegas, and Sweden The Sage of Omaha made a bet that was written up in a recent Fortune magazine article. Basically, Warren Buffett bet that the S&P 500 would outperform a group of funds of...
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IN THIS ISSUE: Recent Market Volatility Difficult To Navigate Scotia Partners, Ltd. – Our Latest Find A Leveraged Long & Short Equity Strategy, With A Twist Impressive Results In Recent Volatile Market Environment Hedge Fund-Like Strategy For Only $25,000 Introduction Over the last year or so, we...
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This week we will look at what will be a fairly controversial essay by good friend Michael Lewitt of HCM. In light of today's speech by Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson of the re-organization of the regulatory system in the US, Michael suggest we look at what the real problems are before we begin...
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03-31-2008
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Filed under: The Fed, Private Equity, Michael Lewitt, Hedge Funds, Subprime, Recession, The Dollar, SIV, Financial Regulation, Henry Paulson, Financial Reform
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What really happened last August? There was blood in the street for many hedge funds, while others did ok. But in this week's Outside the Box, Jon Sundt from Altegris Investments (and my US partner) dives you the behind the scenes details of what was going on inside the trading rooms of various quantitative...
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Introduction The credit markets are in turmoil. This week I have asked Michael Lewitt of Harch Capital in Florida to tell us what is going on from his perspective. Michael has been watching the credit markets from the inside for a long time. So, this week we have a sort of insider's Outside the Box...
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Stock Prices Plunge In The Perfect Storm IN THIS ISSUE: 1. Stocks Make New Record Highs, Then Plummet 2. Forget The Cheese, Just Let Me Out Of The Trap! 3. Unwinding The "Yen Carry Trade" 4. Fed & Central Banks To The Rescue 5. So What Next? - BCA's Latest Analysis 6. Conclusions -...
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The Fugu Ultimatum In the early fall of 1998, I remember being on a flight to Bermuda from New York. I was upgraded and sat next to a very distinguished looking gentleman. He was going to a conference about re-insurance and I was going to speak at a large hedge fund conference. We hit it off, and began...
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Introduction This Week in Outside the Box we Join Bill Gross of Pimco in his July 2007 Investment Outlook as he strives to address the implications of the Bear Stearns hedge fund debacle, the toxic waste that is Wall Streets' innovative derivative products and their respective valuation, rather,...
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Introduction This week's Outside the Box will be one of the longer ones that have been featured, even despite the current length being approximately half of what it originally was. Now that's no cause for alarm, yet rather a measure of how important I feel this article to be. In his article "How...
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Filed under: Energy, Private Equity, Hedge Funds, John Mauldin, Investing Strategies, Ethanol, Real Estate, Gary Shilling, Futures, Health Care, Banks
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Introduction I am in South Africa as this week's letter is being sent out; so it is with some irony that the letter is focused on a topic that generally concerns only US-based investors, although what the SEC does has an effect on regulatory bodies abroad. This is a letter you may want to forward...
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Introduction This week we will venture into the always hazardous area of making my semi-annual forecast. I make some non-consensus projections as to the economic climate for the next six months, and of course look at Fed policy. We will also quickly review my beginning of the year (2006) forecast and...
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Introduction This week I am in La Jolla for my annual Strategic Investment Conference. It is packed, and of course I am quite busy, so not much time to write my regular e-letter. But a few weeks ago, Rich Smith from The Motley Fool did a fairly wide-ranging interview with me that just came out this week...
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Introduction At precisely what point can we say that there are too many hedge funds? Are too many funds the reason hedge fund returns were down in 2004? What does the answer say about the potential for future returns? And how large might the industry grow in the next ten years? We deal with this and...
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Introduction The Baby Boom generation (those born from 1945 to 1964), is facing a savings/retirement dilemma. I would say “crisis” but arguably that overstates the problem. Crisis or not, most Baby Boomers have not saved nearly enough for their retirement, they are too far in debt and most are scrambling...