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Ray Dalio Hails India As Upcoming Economic Powerhouse — Successful Moon Mission Just One Of Many 'Straws In The Wind' Illustrating Ascendancy
Monday, August 28, 2023 - 2:47am | 539This story was first published on the Benzinga India portal. In a recent post on X.com, formerly Twitter, Sridhar Vembu, the tech tycoon, voiced his agreement with legendary investor Ray Dalio’s prediction that India is poised to be the globe’s fastest-growing economy in...
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Fintech Focus For May 3, 2021
Sunday, May 2, 2021 - 7:25pm | 1759Quote To Start The Day: “In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.” Source: Robert Frost One Big Thing In Fintech: Robinhood, the free-trading app that helped drive a surge in retail investing during the pandemic, has switched to using JPMorgan...
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Fintech Focus For August 31, 2020
Sunday, August 30, 2020 - 10:33pm | 2934Quote Of The Day: Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Fintech Movers: Banks have something most technologists don’t have enough of: Banks have domain expertise. Technologists tend to discount the exchange value of domain knowledge. And...
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Bridgewater's Ray Dalio Shares His Strategy On Minimizing Financial Risks Of Coronavirus Outbreak
Friday, January 31, 2020 - 3:36am | 496Bridgewater Associates founder Ray Dalio on Thursday shared his analysis of how the financial markets are likely to perform as a result of the novel Coronavirus outbreak. What Happened The billionaire investor said he studied past pandemics, including the H1N1, SARS, and the Spanish Flu outbreaks,...
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Ray Dalio's Principles & Top 7 Most Undervalued Stocks
Tuesday, September 19, 2017 - 11:47am | 3651The following originally appeared on Finbox.io Most investors are well aware of the investing prowess of Raymond Dalio. He's the billionaire investor, hedge fund manager, and philanthropist that founded the largest hedge fund on Wall Street (Bridgewater). However, investors may not be aware...
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How People Choose Hedge Funds: The Importance Of Branding
Friday, April 21, 2017 - 8:41am | 1216Choosing hedge funds can appear to be a complicated process, one riddled with different elements that weigh unequally upon the individual's wants. Do people pick them based on returns? How important is the fund manager? What role does the investor want to play? How active of a role? Do they go for...
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Why A 1% Rise In Interest Rates Could Produce 'One Of The Worst Drawdowns In The Past 50 Years'
Wednesday, October 19, 2016 - 2:37pm | 457According to a new poll by the Wall Street Journal, more than 80 percent of economists believe the Federal Reserve will opt to raise interest rates again in December. The Federal Reserve will likely want to get back on a consistent, predictable rate-hike schedule as soon as possible to continue the...
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Please Let Bridgewater Explain How Risk Parity Really Works
Thursday, September 10, 2015 - 11:36am | 595In a letter recently sent to investors, Leon Cooperman of Omega Advisors said the latest market selloff and his poor August performance (his funds fell between 9 and 11 percent over the month) could not be fully attributed to the sluggishness in the Chinese economy and uncertainty surrounding a...
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Bridgewater Sees Housing Market Grinding Forward
Thursday, January 29, 2015 - 4:19pm | 405A recent report by Bridgewater focused on the current state of the housing market in the U.S. The recovery from the bursting of the housing bubble during the financial crisis has been mostly slow and grinding. Bridgewater analysts explain the major reasons why the housing market is not booming...
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13F Filings Reveal Fund Managers Buying Alibaba
Monday, November 17, 2014 - 11:19am | 240Q3 SEC 13F filings from large fund managers show significant interest in Alibaba Group Holding Ltd (NYSE: BABA). Below are fund manager's Alibaba ownership stakes from the 13F filings. Third Point 7.2 million shares acquired. Valued at $639.72 million as of end of Q3 and would be worth...
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Thinknum Raises $1 Million As Company Evolves From Two-Man Startup
Monday, July 28, 2014 - 1:02pm | 428Five months ago, Thinknum was a bootstrapped, two-man startup. The company built an open Web platform for financial analysis and had already attracted the likes of Goldman Sachs (NYSE: GS) and JP Morgan (NYSE: JPM). Now, the company has announced that it has raised $1 million in a seed round...
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Is a Bridgewater Bottom in For EWZ?
Wednesday, August 15, 2012 - 2:18pm | 589The iShares MSCI Brazil Index Fund (NYSE: EWZ), the largest ETF tracking Latin Amercia's largest economy, is trading modestly higher today after it was revealed Ray Dalio's Bridgewater Associates took a stake in the controversial ETF during the second quarter. Bridgewater bought just over 2...