How to Interview a Hedge Fund Manager: First Call Tips (Part 1)
You have done your homework. You read the DDQ, you looked at the presentation, you reviewed the monthly letters, and the numbers did not scare you away. Now what?
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Informed Traders and Market Efficiency: How Prices Find Truth (Chapter 10)
Chapter 10 is about the most important thing markets do: make prices reflect reality. And it is about the people who make that happen. Informed traders.
My Close Shave at Supercuts: When a Stock Pick Goes Wrong
Book: Beating the Street by Peter Lynch with John Rothchild | ISBN: 978-0-671-75915-5
Peter Lynch has a regular barber. His name is Vinnie DiVincenzo, he charges $10 for a haircut, and he throws in pleasant conversation for free. Lynch has never had a problem with Vinnie’s work.
One-Week Intensive Cure Daily Plan: Seven Days to Better Health
In the last post, I covered why Dr. Rau designed the One-Week Intensive Cure and why he thinks it works better than fasting. Now let’s get into the actual plan. Chapter 10 of The Swiss Secret to Optimal Health lays out a day-by-day structure that’s surprisingly detailed, so here’s what seven days on this cure actually looks like.
Shooting Star Hedge Funds - 18 Lessons From Funds That Burned Out
Chapter 4 of The Hedge Fund Book is called “The Shooting Star.” And the title tells you everything. Some hedge funds grow super fast, look amazing for a while, and then crash. Like a shooting star. Bright, quick, gone.
Systematic Fixed Income Portfolios: Real Results for IG, HY, and Credit Long/Short
Book: Systematic Fixed Income: An Investor’s Guide Author: Scott A. Richardson, Ph.D. ISBN: 9781119900139 Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2022
The Wealth of Nations: What Makes a Market 'Good'? (Chapter 9)
The Invisible Hand’s Plumbing
In Chapter 9, Larry Harris steps back from the “how” of trading to look at the “why.” Why should a regular person, who might not even own a single stock, care about whether the New York Stock Exchange has a central limit order book or how fast orders are linked?
Atlas Shrugged Part II, Chapter 2: The Aristocracy of Pull - The Money Speech and a Wedding That Falls Apart
This chapter is packed. A wedding, a famous speech about money, a stock market crash, and one of the best character introductions in the book. Rand is operating at full speed here, and the chapter earns its length.
Chapter 5: The 7 Steps of a Private Equity Deal
You want to buy a company. Or at least a piece of one. How does that actually work? Chapter 5 of Demaria’s book lays it out in 7 steps. The whole thing takes 3 to 18 months depending on the deal. And really, the entire process boils down to one word: trust. Buyer and seller have to trust each other enough to make a deal happen. Let’s walk through it.
Defining the Problem: Telling the Story of the Mess
This is post 12 of 23 in a series on “Systems Thinking: Managing Chaos and Complexity” by Jamshid Gharajedaghi (ISBN 978-0-7506-7973-2).