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Morning Advantage: Going Way Out on a Limb for Profits

Harvard Business Review

Contrarian Number 1 is George Elliott, founder of a hedge fund (Naftilia Asset Management) that plans to buy nothing but stocks from – wait for it – Greece. Facebookers are thus uninterested in ads and oblivious to marketers’ brand-building efforts. As befits a Monday, we’re into contrarians this morning.

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Who Should Actually Have Say on Pay?

Harvard Business Review

One key reason for shareholders'' positive tone is that the stock market has been doing well. Malkiel argues that most of the gigantic growth in asset-management-industry profits since 1980 "is likely to represent a deadweight loss for investors." That''s up from 69% in 2012 and 2011. Since say-on-pay hit the U.S.

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Stop Assuming Your Data Will Bring You Riches

Harvard Business Review

Hedge Funds will love our data — they will practically buy any set of data that might give them a potential edge”. As one client once told me, “It’s as if I were at a farmers’ market with all the most amazing fruits and vegetables, and I can think of a hundred recipes that I would love to prepare.”

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Why the U.S. Needs More Worker-Owned Companies

Harvard Business Review

And some companies with employee majority-owned stock programs, such as Publix Super Markets and outerwear maker W.L. The social impact funds want to support it for social reasons, whereas hedge funds and others are recognizing that the superior resiliency and performance of worker-owned firms can improve their returns. Already, U.S.

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