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Inferior investment vehicles for whom? Always depends on your investment goal. What you personally find are inferior risk/reward characteristics may be vastly superior to a wealthy individual or an institutional investor.

Outperforming the MSCI World USD Index by how much, something like +18% YTD? LOL

Betting on coin tosses is an efficient market (if the coin is good). Are financial markets efficient? Saying "Trend following doesn't work" is like saying "Markets are efficient and on average one can't outperform the SP500".

Oh the double and triple layer of fees. You guys are geniuses! All the Swiss family offices must be so dumb putting their money into funds of funds. My God, if they were just as smart as our resident ET hedge fund experts... They could all save so much in fees and simply go long SPY, EFA and...

You forgot to explain what a fund of fund is. These clowns won't know.

Wow 10y imploding.. oh wait they're not

:p

My position is: If you can't defend your public company against short raids and rumor mongering then why the hell are you a public company in the first place? Can't take the heat get the heck out of the kitchen.

Actually this picture is closer to his speech today

Read this book. It deals exactly with your problem and challenge ahead: http://www.amazon.com/Rocking-Wall-Street-Powerful-Strategies/dp/0470124873 There is a chapter with questions and check lists for your alternative investment manager due diligence and how to construct a diversified funds...

Short CL instead. That's more patriotic. :cool:

Wonder how the BSC, IMB, FNM and FRE shareholders feel about the socialism allegations.

You sound a little shocked. Weren't you a big fan of 'letting the market sort things out' and 'these banks should all fail and be flushed out of the market so we can start with a sound base'??? Now you're panicking? LOL

Artist's interpretation of Lehman's balance sheet

Leading Swiss private banks.. oh wait :confused:

IndyMac is now IDMC on the Pink Sheets (IDMC.PK).

Eurostoxx50 futures down 3.5% for the day. Down 30% YTD. I sense a whiff of panic in the air.

Once the stock trades at $0.50 they might be able to afford it.

The UK represents like what 5% of global crude oil and wheat/corn/soy/dairy consumption. King could jack up rates to 20% what effect would that have? Zilch.

I agree many of those factors would help, but it would be the first time in history for the market to wait for unemployment and home prices to turn positive before finding a bottom.