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2016
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January
The Morning Brief: Farallon Raises $250 Million for Long-Only Funds
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2015
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December
Off the Shelf: Success From Failure
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August
Off the Shelf: Incomplete Analysis
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May
Investors Miss Out By Avoiding Women-Led Hedge Funds
The Morning Brief: Despite Tough April, Activists Soar
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February
Off the Shelf: Attacking the Black Boxes
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January
Off the Shelf: When Opportunity Ran Amok
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2014
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August
Off the Shelf: Pick Your Favorite Number
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May
The Flash Boys: Rebels in Search of a Cause
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February
New Wall Street Exposé Details Life as a Lowly Analyst
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2013
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November
Nine Economic Disasters That Didn’t Have to Happen
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September
Simon Lack’s New Book Sounds a New Alarm
The Morning Brief: SAC’s Employee Retention Scheme
Everything Alternative Investors Never Thought to Ask
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July
The Morning Brief: Loeb’s Reinsurer To Go Public; Herbalife Surges
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June
The Morning Brief: Tepper Bullish on Stocks; Wood Leaves Whitebox; Sony Chief Asks for Patience
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May
The Morning Brief: Hedge Fund Tell-All to Hit Shelves Soon
Off the Shelf: What Made Raj Rajaratnam Run?
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January
Off the Shelf: Jim Rogers on Why the U.S. Is Losing Ground to Asia
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2012
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December
Nassim Taleb Channels Charles Darwin
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October
Hedge Funds and the New Ruling Class
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August
Octopus: An exhaustive—and exhausting—chronicle of Sam Israel’s Bayou delusions
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June
The Alpha Masters: Worshiping those rock stars with spreadsheets
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March
Finance Cops or Lapdogs?
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February
Simon Lack: The accidental critic
Passing the Buck
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2011
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December
Endgame for the euro?
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November
Following the money down a rabbit hole
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October
Railing against financial oligarchs
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September
The devil is in the derivatives
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July
Blame it on Fannie Mae
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June
Goldman’s aleph males
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May
Investing lessons from a pro
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April
What caused the crash?
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March
The rise and fall of the Nymex
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February
A tale of gain...and loss
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2010
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December
The devils are in the details
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November
A love affair gone bad
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September
Tales of a hedge fund start-up
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August
Cash of the titans
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July
Roubini takes on the banks (Magazine Version)
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June
Roubini takes on the banks
Ackman's MBIA obsession
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May
Activist hedge fund manager Eric Rosenfeld's new book is a gas (Magazine Version)
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April
Activist hedge fund manager Eric Rosenfeld's new book is a gas
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March
They are listening now
Geeks gone wild
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2009
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December
Will the real John Paulson stand up?
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October
Quant trading: Beyond science fiction
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September
Vilifying short sellers
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