Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Notes on visiting an Herbalife nutrition club in Queens

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I visited a Herbalife nutrition club in Queens. There is plenty wrong with this company – but this is not a post about the things that are ...
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013

Bill Ackman either lacks imagination or has a touching faith in government

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There is a wonderful Bloomberg story today about the more-to-come in the Bill Ackman vs Herbalife saga. There is however one quote in the...
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Saturday, January 5, 2013

Ackman's Herbalife thesis: someone from the government will help poor people and billionaire hedge fund managers...

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I was just on CNBC talking about Herbalife . Nervous as they come and was propped the wrong way by the sound guy (and hence never looked at...
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Wednesday, January 2, 2013

Madeleine Albright and Herbalife

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Presented without comment.
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Friday, December 28, 2012

Hewlett Packard Pension Fund - a final post

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I have written three posts on HPs pension fund. I also wrote to HP outlining several of my main concerns. HP filed a 10K and gave me a det...
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Bill Ackman enters the city of Stalingrad

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A few days ago I wrote a  post  describing shorting multi-level marketing schemes as akin to the Battle of Stalingrad. Little did I know ...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

Fushi Copperweld: A Christmas present from the China Development Bank and Abax Captial to arb funds

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For the record: I lost on this one. See SEC filing ... Fushi Copperweld - a small cap Chinese stock specializing in bimetallic wire - is ...
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Hewlett Packard's total return swaps

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I have just been sent a list of the total return swaps in the Master Trust for the HP Pension Plan. These TRS (standing for Total Return Swa...
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Thursday, December 20, 2012

Clouds

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The (very late) Go Betweens... I was in the audience... John
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Monday, December 17, 2012

Trade total return swaps like Gretchen Tai: a follow up on the HP Pension Fund post

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In my  last post  I detailed the very fine performance by Gretchen Tai, the asset manager for the Hewlett Packard defined benefit fund. I w...
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