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  • October 2007

    • Living on the Edge in Connecticut

      New Yorker  |  Oct 15, 07 7:00 AM CDT

      Living on the Edge in Connecticut

      (Newser) - Victor Niederhoffer is many things: a champion squash player, a family man (six children from two wives and a mistress), a blogger, and a math prodigy.  But mostly he is a trader. He amassed huge wealth working with George Soros in the 1980s, losing it all in 1997. He began rebuilding in 2003, had huge success, and may be on the verge of losing it all again. More »

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      stock market  • hedge fund  • Harvard  • University of Chicago  • Connecticut  • trading  • equity trading  • risk management

  • August 2007

    • Credit Crisis: Damaging or Deserved?

      Economist  |  Aug 19, 07 9:17 PM CDT

      Credit Crisis: Damaging or Deserved?

      (Newser) - The Economist takes the long view on the turmoil that has engulfed the financial markets, noting that investors have long wondered whether the "the securitisation of just about every form of debt into a tradable asset" would, in the end, spread risk efficiently or lead to cataclysmic failure. The immediate threat, it argues, is to the banking system, where lack of confidence in lending can cripple otherwise solvent institutions. More »

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      credit market  • finance  • markets  • investors  • risk management

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