Word: thorp
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...We’ve been struggling with the weather for the past week or so,” Teng said. “The conditions have been really slick and not conducive to effective training.” However, the circumstances did not slow down the team. Freshman Margie Thorp finished 52nd in the giant slalom event. Freshman Brad Alvarez also completed in two giant slalom runs despite injuring his shoulder in training on Saturday. Kinner recorded the best finish for the team with 32nd place. In spite of the weather conditions and the temporal proximity of the carnival...
...mutual funds traveled this trail of tears, Southern California math professor Ed Thorp was delivering positive, usually double-digit, returns every year to investors in the fund he launched in 1969. Thorp, probably best known for figuring out how to beat the house at blackjack, did this by programming computers to identify small price discrepancies between securities that should have been trading in tandem. Then he borrowed tons of money to bet that these discrepancies would disappear. Such strategies were off-limits to mutual funds, but Thorp's Princeton Newport Partners was a hedge fund--an unregulated investment partnership catering...
...Today Thorp's progeny are everywhere, catering not just to rich people but also to pension funds and college endowments--and to not-so-rich people through listed hedge-fund stocks and hedgelike mutual funds. Thorp's was not the first hedge fund, and the term now covers all manner of investment beasts. But the approach he pioneered accounts for the bulk of the $1.43 trillion that Chicago-based Hedge Fund Research says hedge funds had under management at the end of the year. That's still puny compared with the $20 trillion in mutual funds worldwide. But because most...
...Thorp, who at 74 no longer runs a hedge fund but still invests in a few, doesn't worry too much about a meltdown. "My opinion is that the most likely scenario is not a blowup but rather that hedge funds as a group will gradually and continuously lose their edge (if they haven't already) over other asset classes," he writes in an e-mail. "Then they will 'top out'--like mutual funds, real estate, etc.--and then just be a fluctuating fraction of total financial assets--part of the financial landscape...
...fails to fully portray her character’s deeper psychiatric struggles, and the audience is left perplexed as to some of the character’s decisions and motives. Co-stars Jackson and Garcia play their parts well, but are crippled by the poor dialogue of screenwriter Sarah Thorp, whose script traps the characters in awkward, clichéd language. Even the redemptive Kaufman (The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Right Stuff) can’t allow the film to recover from its overused dialogue...