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Join us this coming Monday May 9th @ 4pm ET for a free online discussion on the “5 Myths About Cloning Hedge Funds”. We’ve been following hedge fund replication strategies (what I call piggybacking) since the early days of this blog and back to 2009 on NewRules. It’s not only a topic I like to [...]

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On Tradestreaming Radio, we’re interviewing lots of innovative entrepreneurs, investors, and researchers all trying to make investors better at what they do.  Check out our archives.  Subscribe on iTunes. From this perch, it seems like investors are witnessing a Renaissance of tools, data, and research that overlays investor psychology on 24/7 streaming content of the Internet. The [...]

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So, the rumors were finally put to rest as next-generation financial site heavy, Seeking Alpha, announced today that they would begin paying contributors for their content.  As an aggregator, Seeking Alpha relied upon a mutual understanding for years: in return for permission to host investment bloggers’ content, the financial site provided more eyeballs and visibility [...]

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This week’s episode of Tradestreaming Radio is up and ready for listen.  Let me know what you think and if you have ideas for future shows.  You can listen below, find the transcript below or download directly to you iPod/iPhone via iTunes — search for Tradestream or go here. Powered by Podbean.com This episode includes [...]

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WSJ on Insider Trading (video)

by Zack Miller on November 28, 2010

Allan Murray runs a good interview with Joel Cohen, a former federal prosecutor and insider trading expert. Good points about duty, hedge funds, insider investing and the gray areas surrounding implicit duties for confidentiality. [ht: Finance Professor]

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***Like what you read? Please sign up here to receive our exclusive newsletter direct to your inbox. For the fourth quarter in a row, the top economic bloggers polled by the Kaufmann Foundation have described and forecasted a deteriorating economic environment in the U.S. Partial list of Kauffman economic bloggers Some of the names surveyed [...]

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Following hedge fund moves just got easier

by Zack Miller on October 26, 2010

This post originally appeared on Tradestreaming, our sister site that offers the best deals on financial products — up to 80%. Sign up here. Awesome hedge fund and piggyback investing blogger, MarketFolly, just launched a subscription newsletter, Hedge Fund Wisdom (HFW). A take-off of his great blog, Jay at MarketFolly has produced a quarterly newsletter [...]

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Bloomberg shows some man-dog love to Gerson Lehrman

by Zack Miller on October 4, 2010

I’ve been saying that it was a matter of time before someone well-situated was going to go after Gerson Lehrman, the 80000 lb gorilla of expert investment networks. And with an announcement today, it looks like media giant, Bloomberg is taking that step. Here’s what a Bloomberg spokesperson had to say about the project: We [...]

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Bloomberg reports today that Citigroup agreed to pay $600,000 in fines related to a charge Finra brought against the bank.  The regulator claimed that Citigroup didn’t properly supervise specific transactions of foreign clients to skirt paying taxes on dividend payments. According to the Bloomberg article: Investigators at the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, which polices almost [...]

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