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Author: Michael Covel
- June 22, 2006Orin Kramer: Chair of the State of New Jersey Investment Committee
Orin Kramer is Chair of the State of New Jersey Investment Committee and a General Partner of Kramer Spellman, L.P. managing private investment partnerships concentrated in public equities. He spoke the other…
- June 21, 2006Mark J. Walsh: Trend Following Success
Mark J. Walsh was not a Turtle, but Mark was close enough to the Turtle experiment and Richard Dennis early in his career to learn the ins and outs. Now 20 years…
- June 20, 2006Elizabeth Cheval: Keynote at Managed Funds Association (MFA)
I was in Chicago today for the Managed Funds Association’s Forum. The lunch keynote was delivered by Elizabeth Cheval, Chairman, EMC Capital Management, Inc. and was titled ‘Let’s Get Negative! Correlation and…
- June 19, 2006Michael Mauboussin: Long-Term Investing in a Short-Term World
Michael Mauboussin authored this paper titled Long-Term Investing in a Short-Term World (PDF). Note: Listen to Mauboussin on my podcast.
- June 14, 2006Negatively Skewed Trading Strategies
An article titled Negatively Skewed Trading Strategies (PDF) by Glyn A. Holton is definitely worth reading. Well said. For those not following the logic here completely, take a read of Chapter 4…
- June 11, 2006A Culture of Risk
The odd thing about this article (PDF) describing Wall Street’s culture of risk? Why don’t the banks and other players have a plan to make money when shit hits the fan? Why…
- June 10, 2006William Arthur Ward: Great Feedback
Wise feedback: “Hi Michael, I’m a trader in the Asian Markets and I’ve always been baffled at why many of my colleagues don’t seem to understand how markets work. I just read…