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Paolo Pelligrini May Come Back To Hedge Fund Business
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 12:55pm | 47Paolo Pellegrini is speaking at the Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund Conference and he is saying that he may return back to the hedge fund industry in a few years. Pellegrini is famous for helping Paulson & Co. earn over $3 billion during the housing crisis, by betting against subprime debt.
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Glenn Dubin: Brazil Great Place To Invest
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 12:48pm | 100Glenn Dubin of Highbridge Capital Management is speaking at the Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund Conference and he says that Brazil is a wonderful economic power. It has strong growth, plentiful natural resources and it is a great place to invest. Highbridge now has a partner in Brazil, Gavea...
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Food Inflation In China Not That Big Of A Concern
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 12:25pm | 31Jennifer Tan is speaking at the Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund Conference and she says that food inflation in China is not as big a problem as it makes it out to be.
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Mari Kooi: Go Long Metals
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 12:19pm | 116Mari Kooi is speaking at the Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund Conference and she says we have a metals problem, not an energy problem in this country. Autos are made out of metals, and with the move towards more electric vehicles, we will see an increase in metals prices. Kooi likes both industrial and...
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Crude Will Go Higher
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 12:15pm | 109Tim Flannery is speaking at Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund Conference and is saying that crude oil is spiking because of supply & demand issues. The two big structural trends in the world are the deleveraging in the Western economies, and the emergence of the emerging market consumer. Flannery is...
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Buy Commodities: Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund Companies
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 12:07pm | 105Mari Kooi of Wolf Asset Management is saying that corn acreage will be bigger than people think. Farmers are buying more tractors from companies like Deere (NYSE: DE). Kooi is saying you can buy all commodity companies, like Potash (NYSE: POT) and BHP Billiton (NYSE: BHP), as well as other...
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Bloomberg Hedge Fund 2010 Conference: Volatility In 2011
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 12:03pm | 321John Taylor of FX Concepts is speaking at the Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund conference and he thinks that Europe will go into a recession, which will cause weakness in the Euro, and especially cause weakness in the PIIGS. Europe will go into an austerity period. Taylor is saying that his models are...
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Ed Yardeni: Do We Want Inflation?
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 11:36am | 56Ed Yardeni is speaking at the Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund conference and is saying that the Federal Reserve does not really need inflation, if deflation is based on productivity. People aren't going to buy things at McDonald's (NYSE: MCD) in advance. McDonald's raised prices to combat rising food...
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Ed Yardeni: Jobs Will Come Back
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 11:30am | 40Ed Yardeni is speaking at the Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund conference and is saying that profits will start to create jobs as profits continue to rise. Claims data is improving, not as fast as we would like, but it is improving.
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Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund Conference: Death Of The Bond Bull Market?
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 11:23am | 110Ed Yardeni is speaking at the Bloomberg 2010 Hedge Fund Conference and he believes the U.S. economy will recover. He believes the yield on the 10 year should be around 4.5% and it's far below that. Jeffrey Kronthal of KLS Diversified Asset Management fails to see where economic growth is going to...
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Bloomberg Hedge Fund 2010 Conference: The QE2 Rally
Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 10:39am | 288Orin Kramer, Mark Yusko, and Matthew Linedenbaum are speaking at the Bloomberg Hedge Fund 2010 conference and they are saying that the Federal Reserve is telling us to to go into risk, so you go into risk. Mark Yusko believes that quantitative easing will not work, as it hasn't worked in the past....