Friday, May 10, 2013

Hedge fund bears fight over next crisis


According to the Financial Times a high-profile gathering this week of some of the biggest names in the hedge fund world to share investment tips quickly turned into a battle for the accolade of biggest bear.

The differences between the fund managers were in their varying degrees of pessimism. The audience was left to ponder potential crises in Japan, China, South Africa, Canada, long-dated sovereign bonds, big global banks, even international finance itself. Yet, underlying the different calls was one theme: the effects of emergency action taken by governments and central banks since the global financial crisis erupted five years ago. There was unease at the prospects for economic recovery and concern that “quantitative easing” had artificially boosted asset prices….

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