Oxstones Investment Club™By Seth Lubove, Bloomberg, Perry Vieth baled hay on a neighbor’s farm in Wisconsin for two summers during high school […]
Are Hedge Funds ‘Too Big to Fail’?
By Gregory Zuckerman, WSJ, Who’s afraid of hedge funds? A year after Dodd-Frank was signed into law, regulators still have […]
Another Hedge Fund For You & Me
By Murray Coleman, Barron’s, Hedge funds typically require $1 million in investable assets just to qualify for consideration. Then they […]
Hedge-Fund Investors Scout Out Web Firms
By SPENCER E. ANTE, WSJ, Spurred by their appetite for technology companies and seeking higher returns, a growing number of […]
Riskier Loans Make a Comeback, as Private Firms Take the Field
by AnnaMaria Andriotis, WSJ, After years as the lending market’s undesirables, aspiring home buyers with less-than-stellar credit are being offered […]
Bank Said No? Hedge Funds Fill a Void in Lending
By AZAM AHMED, NY Times, Hedge fund managers have been called plenty of names. Now, they can add another: local […]
Hedgie Och-Ziff Jumps 1% On Surge In New Money, Fund Performances
By Murray Coleman, Barron’s, Hedge fund manager Och-Ziff (OZM) is up more than 1% after reporting assets under management surged […]
The Value Of Picking Great Managers & Stocks (Post Ira Sohn)
By Murray Coleman, Barron’s Blog, Last week, my colleague Avi Salzman blogged from the Ira Sohn event, which featured top […]
Wealthy U.S. Individuals Invest in Commercial Property in Quest for Yield
By Margaret Collins, Bloomberg, When Sumeet Parekh bought a retail property in Manhattan’s TriBeCa neighborhood in January, individual investors provided […]
OXSTONE FOOD FOR THOUGHT – May 2011 – The rise of private lenders and a contrarian investment idea
By Liu-Yue (Louie) Lam, Co-Founder, Chief Investment Strategist, Oxstone Capital Management, Crisis Leads to New Opportunities Recently, many prominent investors […]