Word: macros
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...rare exception is the semiannual ritual staged by Drobny Global Advisors, a boutique research firm based in Manhattan Beach, Calif., run by two guys named Drobny--Andres and Steven--who are related only by the business they are in. The Drobnys' most recent conference attracted more than 100 macro hedge fund managers--people who bet on megatrends. They descended on the Wynn Las Vegas resort for three days of hard trading talk and, of course, a bit of hard playing...
...great time to strengthen your thinking--being up in front of that crowd, you have no choice but to have a bulletproof trade, or you'll be eaten alive," says Renee Haugerud, CIO and managing principal of Galtere Ltd., which manages a $1 billion, New York City--based global macro hedge fund that focuses on the commodity markets...
...year, it did not mean to vote itself a 17 percent cut in advising workload. Surely, if a choice has to be made, Faculty should advise sophomores deciding on concentrations rather than freshmen. In designing the student experience, everyone had the best intentions at the micro level. At the macro level…there wasn’t any macro level. In the absence of unifying leadership, an incoherent program evolved...
...minds over four years to complete, and their effort is apparent: the fields of study required of every Harvard student have been summarily renamed. Fret no longer about that mundane Moral Reasoning final; it’s an Ethical Reasoning final now. And instead of studying history at the macro and micro level, we will divide our two courses between the U.S. and the rest of the world. Even more impressive than these verbal acrobatics, exemptions to requirements have been eliminated; the general education program will have a faculty member at its helm; and, of course, the general education committee...
...World War I and the Wall Street crash of 1987 are all demonstrations that "the world is dominated by the extreme, the unknown and the very improbable." A follow-up to his Fooled by Randomness, about the role chance plays in life, The Black Swan is a provocative macro-trend tome in the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and The Tipping Point. Taleb draws on history, philosophy and psychology to suggest that our love for simplistic explanations blinds us into thinking we understand how things work. What to do? Look for ways to foster serendipitous developments (like discoveries--good...