Wednesday, July 26, 2006

Here's my Homework, part 3

Venture Capital blogs

A VC
Genuine VC
Redeye VC
The Post Money Value
Venture Capital, Entrepreneur, Investment Banking, M & A, Job, Technology
bostonvcblog.com
Don Dodge on The Next Big Thing
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Here's my Homework. part 2

Real estate investment trusts and real estate-related
Investing in The US Real Estate Market (REIT
Rob's Greater Vancouver Real Estate Blog
C. Frederick Wehb
instantanswersonline.com

Real Estate Investment Trust
Housing News Blog
The Housing Bubble Blog
Real Estate Investment News Daily (splog)
Real Estate Wealth Web (splog)
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Here's my Homework.

Market psychology

Market Psychology Blog
This blog is dedicated to market psychology. One of the authors is Richard Peterson M.D., a managing partner of Market Psychology Consulting and a collaborating researcher at the Stanford University in Neuroscience. He is currently trying to get a hedge fund off the ground. The blog features very useful psychological insights on current market developments.

Trading Blog
Jeff White is the founder and chief technical analyst of www.stockbandit.net. While the site is generally about stock trading, his blog offers an applicable psychological approach to investing.

Economic Psychology
This blog offers general views on behavioral economics. What may be useful are the references and hyperlinks the author mention inside the posts.

Neuroeconomics
Kevin McCabe is the director of the Center for the Study of Neuroscience in George Mason University. He is a published author of books on the subject. His posts are interspersed with highly scientific jargon.

Four of Two
The blog is a personal blog that details how and why the author undertake certain investments. No professional info is available on the author.

The Big Picture
The blog is about the author's psychological reaction to macroeconomic events. It is worthwhile reading.

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Paging Richard

How about a team-building in Boracay? just kidding

Richest of The Rich

Hedge fund managers compensation keep on rising. Two more fund managers breached $1 Billlion in commission.

This, despite the decreasing net returns from fund performance.

Is there a hedge fund based in the Philippines?

Lifestyles of The Filthy Rich and Slightly Famous

Greenwich's Outrageous Fortune

It describes how the hedge fund managers from Wall Street are changing the local scene in Greenwich, Connecticut. It is estimated that about $120 billion of hedge funds are being managed here.I can only imagine the impact of that much money on the original residents.

Aside from tales 30,000 sq. ft. mansions and personal helicopters, it also profiles 3 of the more known fund managers namely Edwin Lampert ($3.5 Billion), Steven Cohen ($2.5 Billion) and Paul Tudor Jones ($2 Billion).

What frustrates me is that they have that much money, and most of it are being spent on lifestyles that benefit only their massive egos. They don't even live on their $15 million dollar mansions.

They could have helped change many people lives instead.

Long Term Capital Management.

Long Term Capital Management was a hedge fund managed by two Nobel Prize winners that tanked because of over-leveraged aggressive postions. They have roughly $5 billion capital in with about $150 billion aggregate positions. The volatile market movements triggered the collapse of a debt-enabled house of cards. The fund management team's credibility in the industry and the spectacular performance (30-40% net annual return for about 5 years) helped dispell creditors' misgivings about giving loans. The collapse threatened to spread to creditors but was averted by the intervention of the then Fed Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan.

Whats frustrating for the managers is that their market positions were generally sound and would have made them a lot of money if only the fund had the additional fund to offset volatility.

LTCM is a favorite hedge fund story. In this Market, no one is infallible.

The Legendary Soros

George Soros is the legendary hedge fund manager who is credited as " the man who broke the Bank of England" in 1992. He risked $ 10 billion dollars in a single play to force the Bank to devalue the overpriced pound. He earned more than a billion dollars in that play. He is also known as a major philantropist, donating billions of dollars to foundations in countries he wants to help to become "open societies".

That play must have taken huge balls. George Soros is one of my role models.

Hedge Fund regulation

Hedge funds leave SEC

2/3 of hedge funds are based offshore to minimize regulation. Recently the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ruled that hedge funds do not have to register in order to operate. A month later, ten hedge funds withdrew their registration from the said agency.

Trillion dollars of unregulated funds moving fast and at the whim of the fund managers could severely damage weak and not-so-weak economies. Even a token regulation is better than none.

Hedge Funds

Almost everybody had heard of hedge funds. Yet not many know what its about except that its replacing "mutual funds" as the "in" thing in investment world. Part of the hedge fund myth is fueled largely by the edification of hedge fund managers as investment genuises. Multihundred million dollars average annual paycheck of the top 25 managers (with the top two breaking the billion dollar mark last year) makes them the rock stars of Wall Street. Here are some blogs about the hedge fund world.

A hedge fund is...

Alfred Winslow Jones coined the term in 1946. Basically, a hedge fund is a limited partnership company with a fund manager. The partnership allows a maximum of 499 investors with each a minimum annual income of $200,000 and a net worth of at least $1,000,000.

Hedge funds are the new status symbols.

The hedge funds strategy of investing involves going long on a favored stock and shorting an unfavored one, to gain on both price movements.

Tuesday, July 25, 2006

The zero moment

Hi there! this is my first post as i embark on my quest to be an online investment analyst. Your comments and suggestions are welcome. Thanks.