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Like a company can literally spin off a division and make it public in a similar way. Or you can securitize cash flows into an ABS. The investment bank's fees will be a lot lower t…

That's kind of how markets work though - when things are going most in your favour it's hardest to capitalise on it as price going your way means few people want to take the other …

But by that logic anything that a company ever does can be pinned on Steve Cohen. If he was so powerful his returns wouldn't be that shit. Last year was good for P72 but other than…

Trading (or posting) to cause impact and affect other positions you have is manipulation too. But it's not really provable in the case of WSB so they're safe. P.S. not legal advice…

There is, large market moves down over last few days are mostly due to hedge funds selling off longs to cover their shorts. If you look at GSVIP ETF (GS ETF for most loved names by…

Mate, every medium-sized company and above has an investment by PE and VC. You can literally pull any company with above $10 mm EBITDA and there will be no more than two degrees of…

That's just building a large position. I don't think they expected to run the company into the ground by merely shorting it, that's not how market impact works. These firms general…

Not when moving the price is the goal. If you trade specifically to create an unfair impression of the supply and demand of a stock that's market manipulation. Thing is no one is g…

Financiers in London are paid similar to financiers in NYC, it's not about solidarity, it's about supply and demand. And forces of supply and demand are not working in developers' …

Assets != jobs

Agree direct comparison is tough and multifactored and would be highly individual (how do you put a price on being a 2 hr train ride away from Paris whilst having much better job o…

London wasn't that great when it comes to tech jobs compared to US/Canada. Starting salary for grads at FANGs is around a third of what it is at large US cities when living costs a…

To elaborate a bit more: vast majority of jobs where you can seek such excellence that you're able to say at some point "I am top 100 in my field, I enjoy it and am getting paid fo…

>Ambitious students seek out prestige thinking it is the missing ingredient to achieving their own excellence. In reality, they have it backward—prestige follows excellence. I'm no…

I mean the article is a pretty good ad for the PR firm he used and the last sentence could be read as really wink-wink-nudge-nudge: When I think how hard PR firms work to score pre…

You can chat to other people on internal IM apps or on Symphony/Bloomberg to external people. They're all monitored and recorded along with Zoom calls. My drop in productivity as a…