Columnist David Ignatius’ Recent Attack on Hedge Funds
| Jul 19th, 2006 | Filed under: Hedge Fund Industry Trends | By: Alpha Male |
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By: Alpha Male
When I came across syndicated columnist David Ignatius’ June 21 piece in the Washington Post on hedge funds a few weeks ago (“When Hedging Doesn’t Pay Off“) I passed it off as yet another populist attack on the hedge fund industry. But I noticed that the original column was reprinted by various news organizations under vastly different and colourful titles ranging from “Good and Bad News in Global Interdependence” (Lebanon Daily Star), to “Learn from Financial Mistakes” (Denver Post) culminating in “Fall of the Portable Alpha” (Cincinatti Post). I propose the title, “Journalist Misses Point of Hedge Funds Again”.
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