To card or not to card…
This just in: The death ofbusiness cards is coming–and coming fast. Yeah, I know, I’ve been saying this for quite some time, but now it seems that the people at Harvard Business Review are subscribing to my theory that people who want to get in touch in a digital age don’t need a stiff little piece of paper to do so. So with apologies to all the print-on-demand ads for 250 free business cards littering websites these days, I remain committed to not having business cards. Neither should you.Read the story here.
WHY HEDGE FUNDS? WHY NOW?
It’s very clear that the one lesson that investors all over the world learned from the credit crisis and market turmoil over the last two-and-a-half years is that markets don’t always rise. Many investors, sophisticated or not, before 2008 believed that what went up continued to go up. Well, many lost considerable amounts of money operating under this assumption. Investors need portfolios that zig when the markets zag and vice versa. One-way investing is not good for anybody – which is why we need hedge funds now and forever. Hedge funds, in their simplest definitions and practice, are supposed to make money regardless of what is going on in the […]