Joshua M Brown

Housing Market: Shall we say…ballistic?

Rising wages, a tighter labor market, the wealth effect from tremendous stock and bond market gains, Millennials turning mid-30’s, pent-up home-shoppers coming out after a terrible winter – these are all the ingredients for a ballistic housing market, not unlike the one I had guessed we would see this spring (see my February story at…

The Billion Dollar Club

Some data on where the hedge fund assets under management are currently held within the “industry” via CIO Magazine (emphasis mine): the top 11% of managers controlled 92%—or $2.78 trillion—of total hedge fund assets at the end of Q1 2015. These 570 managers also each held at least $1 billion in assets, qualifying their membership…