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	<title>FT Alphaville</title>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 17:20:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/24/84931/further-reading-406/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Tuesday,

- Five suggestions for fixing Wall Street.

- "Roubini's okay but he's not as good as me".

- The world according to Americans.

- Citi: the commodity collapse could be "Subprime Part II".

- Amusing reports: Dimon for US Treasury secretary?

- The cure to Goldman's PR troubles:...]]></description>
		<comments>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/24/84931/further-reading-406/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 07:55:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Hedge funds could recoup $11bn from Lehman</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/24/84896/hedge-funds-could-recoup-11bn-from-lehman/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Lehman Brothers International (Europe), where more than $35bn of hedge fund assets have been frozen since the bank's collapse last September, could return about $11bn to fund managers by March if enough firms approve a new plan, reports Reuters. PricewaterhouseCoopers, administrators for bankrupt Lehman's UK-based unit,...]]></description>
		<comments>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/24/84896/hedge-funds-could-recoup-11bn-from-lehman/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:39:35 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>US mall investors set for bonanza</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/24/84881/us-mall-investors-set-for-bonanza/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hedge funds and other investors now stand to make billions from their holdings in bankrupt US mall owner General Growth Properties amid the recent rebound in financial markets. Among the biggest potential winners is William Ackman’s Pershing Square Capital Management, which is sitting on a paper profit of more than $800m on investments in the debt and equity of GGP,...]]></description>
		<comments>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/24/84881/us-mall-investors-set-for-bonanza/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/20/84461/further-reading-404/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Friday,

- Investing fads and themes by year, 1996 to present.

- Unintended consequences on Wall Street.

- Chart of the day: How the old gold bugs lost control.

- Analyst date night: Honey let's hit that BofA protest.

- The unbearable pain of 0.01%.

- Wall Street's Grinch speaks to Gasparino....]]></description>
		<comments>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/20/84461/further-reading-404/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:55:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Paulson to launch gold fund</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/19/84181/paulson-to-launch-gold-fund/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson is launching a new gold fund from Jan 1 that will include $250m of his own personal investment, reports the WSJ. The fund will focus on shares of gold miners and other bullion-related investments, according to three investors. Paulson discussed the new fund at a meeting with his investors in New York on Tuesday....]]></description>
		<comments>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/19/84181/paulson-to-launch-gold-fund/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Just rip &#8216;em off LLC</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/18/84081/just-rip-em-off-llc/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[By way of a resuscitated campaign to have Ben Stein sacked from his various writing and promotion jobs, Felix Salmon at Reuters discusses a story about US consumers being deceived by dodgy online sign-up pitches and leads us to this:  the relevant full blown staff report for Senate commerce committee chairman Jay Rockefeller....]]></description>
		<comments>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/18/84081/just-rip-em-off-llc/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 18:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/18/83921/further-reading-402/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Wednesday,

- The madness of the inflation hawks.

- IPOs are back.

- Adam Smith in 10 minutes.

- Can options spikes be a coincidence?

- Faber on gold, and just about everything else.

- And then he took his pants off...

- The most powerful financiers.

- Australia, what recession?

- Banking in a state....]]></description>
		<comments>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/18/83921/further-reading-402/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 07:55:53 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>[Galleon] alpha quadrant</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/16/83366/alpha-quadrant/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[The aim of this document is to show the real life application of the 'Style Analysis' feature applied to a hedge fund claiming delivering alphas. We will show how to analyze a fund in terms of its alpha and sector selection skills. Galleon has been selected as fund in order to show how the 'Style Analysis' can be used as part of the due diligence process by highlighted anomalous monthly alphas....]]></description>
		<comments>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/16/83366/alpha-quadrant/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 09:15:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Further reading</title>
		<link>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/16/83326/further-reading-400/?source=rss</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Elsewhere on Monday and the weekend,

- A field guide to wild and woolly financial conspiracies.

- A forensic reconstruction of Goldman's 2008 prop trading.

- World out of balance.

- China is now the biggest risk to the international economy.

- The boring Ayn Rand is back.

- Roubini,...]]></description>
		<comments>http://ftalphaville.ft.com/blog/2009/11/16/83326/further-reading-400/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:14:11 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Madoff souvenirs raise $1m</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[It might appear small change compared with the billions lost through Bernard Madoff’s $65bn Ponzi fraud but the scheme’s victims are at least set for a small piece of payback. Nearly 200 items belonging to Madoff and his wife Ruth were auctioned in New York on Saturday by the US government, with the proceeds going towards compensating the victims....]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 04:36:17 +0000</pubDate>
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