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public:sotm:reading_2022 [2022/12/01 20:20] – [2022-12-01] rajupublic:sotm:reading_2022 [2023/06/29 05:03] – [2022-04-27] admin
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 +==== 2022-12-27 ====
 +Notes from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-27/alameda-lent-bankman-fried-546-million-for-robinhood-stake?srnd=premium
 +  * 8% stake in Robinhood for $546 million; 56 million shares
 +  * Antigua, New Jersey and Delaware
 +  * Emergent Fidelity Technologies, the corporate entity that owns the Robinhood shares
 +  * Bankman-Fried owns 90% of Emergent and Wang owns the rest
 +
 +==== 2022-12-20 ====
 +In regards to https://www.wsj.com/articles/bank-of-japan-blinked-in-standoff-with-markets-11671542586
 +  * Well written; easy to understand. Checkout the other articles from the author - James Mackintosh.
 +
 +==== 2022-12-14 ====
 +Notes from https://finance.yahoo.com/news/interactive-brokers-ibkr-records-decline-154203535.html
 +  * Daily Average Revenue Trades (DARTs)
 +
 +==== 2022-12-12 ====
 +Notes from  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-12/morgan-stanley-goldman-say-earnings-are-biggest-risk-for-stocks
 +  * Strategists
 +    * Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson
 +      * ranked No. 1 in the latest Institutional Investor survey
 +    * Goldman Sachs's David Kostin
 +
 +==== 2022-12-07 ====
 +Notes from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-07/lazard-ceo-sees-chance-to-hire-talented-bankers-goldman-update?srnd=premium
 +  * Virtu Financial
 +    * CEO is Douglas Cifu
 +  * Brookfield Asset Management
 +    * CEO Bruce Flatt
 +    * Toronto-based alternative asset manager
 +    * $125 billion of capital to deploy as of the end of September
 +    * acquired control of Oaktree Capital in 2019
 +  * MSCI US REIT Index
 +  * BNY Mellon
 +    * Roman Regelman, CEO of securities services and digital
 +  * Blackstone
 +    * CEO Steve Schwarzman
 +  * Cboe Global Markets
 +    * Chicago-based
 +    * CEO Ed Tilly
 +    * operates Cboe Digital
 +    * the traditional model where customers are represented by their agents, and those brokers or agents are part of the exchange
 +    * got into cryptocurrencies this year with the acquisition of Eris Digital Holdings LLC
 +  * Citigroup
 +    * CEO Jane Fraser
 +    * October and November were good months in terms of trading activity
 +  * U.S. Bancorp
 +    * CEO Andy Cecere
 +  * Allstate 
 +    * CEO Tom Wilson
 +    * target combined ratio
 +  * Apollo Global Management
 +    * CEO Marc Rowan
 +    * credit-focused firm
 +    * India and the Middle East are attractive
 +    * AUM $523 billion asof 2022-09
 +  * Lazard
 +    * CEO Ken Jacobs
 +    * boutique investment banks Moelis & Co. and Perella Weinberg Partners
 +    * Ken Moelis, founder and CEO of Moelis
 +
 +==== 2022-12-06 ====
 +Notes from https://www.livemint.com/market/stock-market-news/investors-yank-money-from-commercial-property-funds-pressuring-real-estate-values-11670329761658.html
 +  * The Blackstone and Starwood funds are the two largest nontraded real-estate investment trusts
 +    * Blackstone's real-estate fund is known as Blackstone Real Estate Income Trust Inc., or BREIT.
 +      * AUM = \$69 billion.
 +      * quarterly redemption limit of 5% of the fund’s net assets
 +    * Starwood Capital Group's fund is \$14.6 billion
 +      * 
 +  * BlackRock, M&G Group, Schroders PLC, CBRE Investment Management and Legal & General
 +  * FTSE NAREIT All Equity REITs Index
 +    * tracks publicly traded landlords
 +  * Appraisals look backwards, and markets look forward
 +  * Washington State Investment Board
 +    * state pension fund
 +
 +==== 2022-12-05 ====
 +Notes from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-04/dollar-edges-up-amid-focus-on-jobs-report-china-markets-wrap?srnd=premium
 +  * Morgan Stanley’s Michael Wilson, one of the US stock market’s most-vocal skeptics
 +
 +==== 2022-12-02 ====
 +Notes from https://www.wsj.com/articles/psychos-in-the-c-suite-personality-disorder-exploit-ftx-elizabeth-holmes-scam-guilt-empathy-deceit-prison-11669926950?mod=hp_opin_pos_3#cxrecs_s
 +  * By Peggy Noonan
 +  * Elizabeth Holmes was just sentenced to 11 years in federal prison
 +  * Visionaries often leave the details to others!
 +  * To the Democrats Sam Bankman-Fried was the biggest thing since George Soros.
 +  * FTX’s new CEO, John Ray
 +  * the crypto firm BlockFi filed for bankruptcy in New Jersey and Bermuda
 +  * public weal
 +  * Most interesting in psychopaths is the lack of remorse. They don’t like being caught—that upsets them—but they don’t mind causing others harm. It’s their superpower.
 +
 +Notes from https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2022-12-02/inside-sam-bankman-fried-s-bahamian-penthouse-after-ftx-s-collapse?srnd=premium
 +  * Terra and Luna collapsed, wiping out $60 billion
 +  * Terra and Luna were almost openly a Ponzi scheme
 +  * only kibitzing on parts of the discussion
 +  * laptop (an Acer Predator)
 +  * skin-colored patch
 +  * transdermal antidepressant, selegiline
 +  * takes Adderall—“10 milligrams at a time, a few times a day”
  
 ==== 2022-12-01 ==== ==== 2022-12-01 ====
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   * credit washing   * credit washing
   * Most negative information, like missed payments, stay on a person’s credit reports for seven years   * Most negative information, like missed payments, stay on a person’s credit reports for seven years
 +  * Credit-repair companies
 +    * Turbo Solutions Inc
 +      * broke federal rules by collecting fees before providing services
 +    * The Credit Game
 +    * DoNotPay
 +
 +Notes from https://www.barrons.com/articles/costco-november-sales-51669916824?siteid=yhoof2
 +  * the SPDR S&P Retail ETF (XRT)
 +
 +Notes from https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/05/business/costco-kirkland-signature/index.html
 +  * Private brands of Walmart - Great Value household staples and George men’s clothing
 +  * Private brands of Target - Cat & Jack kids’ clothing and Good & Gather food
 +  * “If you get 99 things right and one thing wrong, people are going to remember the one thing. So you don’t get it wrong,” said Costco finance chief Richard Galanti.
 +
 ==== 2022-11-30 ==== ==== 2022-11-30 ====
   * three of the largest nonprofit blood centers in the U.S. Vitalant, OneBlood and the American Red Cross   * three of the largest nonprofit blood centers in the U.S. Vitalant, OneBlood and the American Red Cross
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     * Controlled by the Johnson family     * Controlled by the Johnson family
     * In last year: revenue = \$24 billion, operating income = \$8.1 billion     * In last year: revenue = \$24 billion, operating income = \$8.1 billion
-    * Worth $74.8 billion+    * Worth \$74.8 billion
     * 33.5 million brokerage accounts by Q1 end     * 33.5 million brokerage accounts by Q1 end
     * Currently has 57,000 staff and will add 12,000 by Q3 end     * Currently has 57,000 staff and will add 12,000 by Q3 end
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   * Paul Gojkovich, a former director at Merrill Lynch   * Paul Gojkovich, a former director at Merrill Lynch
   * U.S. rules prevent individual investors from buying securities with more than 50% of the money borrowed on margin. No such limits apply to hedge funds and family offices.   * U.S. rules prevent individual investors from buying securities with more than 50% of the money borrowed on margin. No such limits apply to hedge funds and family offices.
-  * 2x leverage = $1 million borrowed for every $1 million of capital+  * 2x leverage = \$1 million borrowed for every \$1 million of capital
   * In a typical swap agreement, a bank gives its client exposure to an underlying asset, such as a stock. While the client gains—or loses—from any changes in price, the bank shows up in filings as the registered holder of the shares.   * In a typical swap agreement, a bank gives its client exposure to an underlying asset, such as a stock. While the client gains—or loses—from any changes in price, the bank shows up in filings as the registered holder of the shares.
   * Cursing was not tolerated in Archego's offices. It is a policy borrowed from Robertson’s Tiger.   * Cursing was not tolerated in Archego's offices. It is a policy borrowed from Robertson’s Tiger.
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