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In Las Vegas, Odds Favor Novelty Bets

by Alexandra Berzon, WSJ, Want to put $200 on Johnny Depp for Best Actor? Las Vegas gamblers may soon be […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 24 Jul 11 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, Private Equity, Trends, Patterns, Indicators, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Mastering the Machine

by John Cassidy, New Yorker, How Ray Dalio built the world’s richest and strangest hedge fund  ay Dalio, the sixty-one-year-old […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 23 Jul 11 | Also posted in Hedge Fund, Investment Wisdom | Comments (0)

Homeowners in Denial About Value of Properties

Homeowners, especially those who bought their houses after the real-estate bubble burst, are still having trouble accepting just how much […]

By Oxstones | 22 Jul 11 | Also posted in Real Estate | Comments (0)

Funds Betting on New Dot-Com Boom

by Sarah Morgan, Smart Money, With LinkedIn valued at nearly $10 billion, and Facebook said to be worth more than […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Hedge Fund, Private Equity, Stocks | Comments (0)

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 […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 21 Jul 11 | Also posted in Finding Oxstones, Hedge Fund | Comments (0)

8 Toughest Retirement Decisions

For past generations, planning for retirement was a relatively simple process. When someone reached retirement age, they threw a party, […]

By DennisGao | | Also posted in Retirement & Savings, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

ETFs Seen Hitting $2 Trillion by 2015: Research

by Tom Lydon, ETF Trends, Assets in U.S.-listed exchange traded funds are expected to double by 2015, according to research […]

By Liu-Yue Lam | 20 Jul 11 | Also posted in Stocks, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Should I Contribute to a Traditional or Roth 401(k)?

by Walter Updegrave Monday, July 18, 2011 provided by I’m just starting out in my career and I’m trying to […]

By DennisGao | 19 Jul 11 | Also posted in Retirement & Savings, Trends, Patterns, Indicators | Comments (0)

Banks send Wall Street lower on U.S., Europe debt fears

By Aleksandra Michalska NEW YORK (Reuters) – Stocks fell more than 1 percent on Monday as concerns the United States […]

By M Guliyev | 18 Jul 11 | Also posted in Food for Thought, The Big Picture, Western Europe | Comments (0)

Big Mortgages Are Back

Low interest rates are driving high-end home buyers to supersized mortgages at a pace unseen since the housing boom. But […]

By DennisGao | | Also posted in Real Estate | Comments (0)