How Halsey Minor Blew Tech Fortune on Way to Bankruptcy – Bloomberg 05-31-13

Salient to Investors: Halsey Minor sold  CNET Networks for $1.8 billion in 2008 and 5 years later has filed for personal bankruptcy thanks to bad bets on real estate, horse farms, start-up investing, and other ventures that took him out of his technology comfort zone. Read the full article at http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-30/cnet-founder-minor-files-for-bankruptcy-after-selling-art.html

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NYC Pension Chief Seeks $500,000 Managers Not Wall Street – Bloomberg 05-30-13

Salient to Investors: New York City’s retirement system is the only one of the 11 biggest US public-worker pensions that refuses to manage any assets internally. The typical fees for hedge funds and private-equity and real-estate firms is 2 percent of assets plus 20 percent of profits. Last year, three city pension funds

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More Evidence Hedge Funds Are an Expensive Way to Trail the S&P 500 – Bloomberg Businessweek 05-24-13

Salient to Investors: Hedge funds continue to be an overpriced, middling asset class. Goldman Sachs found that hedge funds returned an average of 5 percent in 2013 versus a 15 percent gain in the S&P 500, while only 5 percent of the funds beat the S&P and more than 1

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Swaps Vote Is Another Big Win for the Big Banks – Bloomberg 05-21-13

Salient to Investors: William D. Cohan writes: The CFTC voted May 16 for a watered-down compromise over requiring opaque and hard-to-value swaps and derivatives to be traded on an exchange, allowing dealers – essentially the big Wall Street banks – to continue to set the prices for these financial instruments using their black

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