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...less rarified level: You were a consultant, and also a partial model, for Mike Myers' movie The Love Guru, which unfortunately didn't do very well. What had you been hoping to achieve with that, and why do you think it failed...
...turmoil has some questioning not just hedge-fund performance of late, but also the industry's essential business model. Hedge funds employ a dizzying array of investment strategies, from reliance upon superstar managers who preside like Delphic oracles to the use of byzantine computer algorithms that pick out minute pricing discrepancies and take advantage of them. The profits on these transactions may be small, but funds multiply them many times over by leveraging their investors' capital. This strategy can go awry - as it did spectacularly in 1998 when Long Term Capital Management, a giant U.S. fund whose founders included...
...current crisis may only be highlighting deeper flaws in the hedge-fund model. In 2006, the European Central Bank warned that too many hedge funds were investing in the same way. Because those sophisticated computer models were crunching the same data, there was a higher probability that hedgies would make the same bad bets, potentially causing a devastating cascade of failures. With so many fund managers following the herd, in other words, there was a greater chance that they would go over a cliff together. "A bank run doesn't affect just one bank," says Andrew Lo, a finance professor...
...Table Personal items; Clinton had a toy model of his campaign...
...Yale Daily News.Greenblatt, a Yale alum, was reportedly impressed with his visit. “Yale has for a long time had a very deep and serious engagement with the arts,” he told the Yale Daily News in April. “It is a model for how a university can take arts-making seriously.”Besides finding inspiration by looking at other universities, the Task Force has also tapped into these institutions’ human talent.“We’ve brought in consultants from various artistic organizations,” Bhabha...