vania-janet/multiturn-rag-retrieval-data huggingface dataset:
Watch this film, as well as going through what they did it is simply a rather excellent documentary and one of those ones worth watching even if you have no interest in the subject.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron:_The_Smartest_Guys_in_the_Room  The metaphor also forget to mention that you manage to stage a milk shortage, to put up prices despite making almost twice as much milk as there is demand for by illegal market manipulation on a massive scale.  Enron and what they did is a good example of just why privatisation/deregulation of vital infrastructure has to be done very very carefully and isnt a magic panacea and can be the opposite.
"I read the post.  I read what **they said** about it.   Yet, that part makes **no sense**.  They keep talking about ""only avilable to members of the Florida Bar"" but stop and think about how that doesn't make sense.  Are they in a *florida* court or in a *federal* court?  Or an IP/administrative setting?    Some things they wrote suggests they're in a *federal* court.  But others things suggest they're in an administrative court related to IP.  For example, they talk about needing an attorney who can represent them in the Trademark/IP courts.  That sounds like patent prosecution - but that's typically just about getting the patent/IP stuff in the first place - and not so much after-the-fact stuff.  But then again, I'm not at all familiar with the area so I could be way off base.  The problem is: I shouldn't have to be speculating so much because their story sucked.  But patent litigation (for infringement for example) as far as I was aware, occurs in traditional district courts and so far as I am aware you don't need a special trademark/ip exam to sue on it.  By contrast, patent *prosecution*, which is getting a patent through the offices, requires that the attorney take the USPTO exam - to become a 'patent' attorney.  [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USPTO_registration_examination).  Federal courts, if that's where they are, typically use PACER ECF/CM (case management web portal).  Which, I'll have to assume is the system they are referring to.  https://www.pacer.gov/psco/cgi-bin/regform.pl  That's where anyone can fucking sign up for it.  Then they can look at dockets and all that jazz.  Maybe there's another system I'm not familiar with OR another system that I can't discern from the way they wrote the story.  But so far.  More BS or just confusing or wrong information.  This is why they should have hired a lawyer."
I can't tell you it came about in this particular case because I don't believe it is yet in the public domain, but this information will be included in the joint circular. I will, however, say that there are lots of ways these things can proceed.
Vacuum fittings are quite essential features which need to be bought with a lot of cautiousness. An inadequate one can ruin the whole purpose of having it. The best way is to search right in various platforms before finalizing a particular one.
Somewhere between #3 and #4 is finding a market maker to act as an authorized participant (AP) for the fund's launch. This includes the initial seeding of the fund as well as agreeing to make consistent, high quality markets in the fund throughout its launch.
Options:  (personally I did the first and it is working well).
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f5498.pdf see the instructions for box 2, it's used to report incoming rollover/transfers. The receiving broker should be acknowledging the transfer with the 5498.  If you read the PDF carefully, any incoming money is reported this way.
But what this doesn't show is his physical bullion allocation, which is no doubt substantial. And that could literally be in a basket.  Whereas mfglobal has shown us that what we think is our basket might actually be someone elses basket.
Buffett has the edge here. Berkshire is proposing to keep Oncor's board and CEO, which NextEra didn't offer and was a sticking point for the PUC.  However Elliot owns something like 70%+ of EFH's debt, so maybe the PUCT will be more accommodating to that.
The top ten holdings for these funds don't overlap by even one stock. It seems to me they are targeting an index for comparison, but making no attempt to replicate a list of holdings as would, say, a true S&P index.
"If it's as simple as constituent banks holding 3% of their stock at the FedResInk, why doesn't the FedResInk just publish an annual report of these banks and how much their paid for placing their 3% at the FedResInk?  Answer?  Because it's not that simple.  This is very much a ""pay no attention to the man behind the curtain""."
&gt; Most people don't understand HF as investment vehicles. They are meant to be market neutral and focused on absolute returns.  Good point. I bet a lot of managers are explaining that to their clients quite a bit right now haha.
Eh using a benchmark that's designed for Hedge Funds is a little different. I was guessing the other comment was referring to SPX or similar for the 10%. Most people don't understand HF as investment vehicles. They are meant to be market neutral and focused on absolute returns. Yes, you can benchmark them against each other / strategy but most people here seem to think that HFs want to beat the S&amp;P 500.
&gt; stock funds that Rep. Paul does own are all “short,” or make bets against, U.S. stocks. **One is a “double inverse” fund**  Unless he's actually shorting a 2x bull ETF, he's losing money (regardless of how the benchmark is doing)
I thought it was interesting they would ignore it because it makes them look complicit. I doubt Republicans will agree to subpoena DB, so we'll never know. .   Also, could anyone explain the mirror trades a big more in depth?
Is it because the non-public info isn't directly related to the holding?   Seems like it should be illegal. If Congress was going to write a bill let's say that bans the use of oil in America, and 10 days before they release the bill to the public, 6 members of congress short oil stocks. Seems illegal to me.
The biggest hedge funds seem to be copying the large mutual fund company strategy.  Launch many funds.  Take positions with high beta to the sector or asset class that is the focus of the fund.  Wait and see which asset classes outperform. (For Och-Ziff: Their massive bullish bet on credit!)  Promote the outperforming funds and their portfolio manager to gullible investors.
"I just want to make clear that the Fed saying this is much more significant than a pollster or other source. It gives it a great deal of credibility and makes it, in some way, the Fed's ""official"" stance on this."
Lampert is going to take all of the prime real estate through his secured loans.   I saw someone's blog post randomly where he bought calls @ $60 back in 2014, smh. Some people really can't dig to discover the truth where this was so obvious IMO. They just see the potential valuation.
"So item 1  The two investors leading the suit say ""it's because we want lots of control"" and sue founder.  The standard share holders want equal voting - as would I.  Founder appoints two new board members to ensure this happens.  Item 2 the suit:  The suit is to remove the ability to appoint new board members from the founder correct?  After he has appointed two new ones to implement the changes the other shareholders want correct?  But somehow the suit is ""on behalf"" of the other share holders?  Do I have you explanation right?"
Is there one out there that doesn't suffer from massive survivorship bias? Most that I've looked at gather their data from discretionary reporting from the manager themselves, and many stop reporting after bad months when they aren't going to be raising capital anyway.
FACE dropped its 10Q on 3/31/12  They reduced their total liabilities by 16%, reduced their accounts payable by 30%, looks like they eliminated their ST Debt, and increased their equity by 6%.  I'm not saying that they had a great quarter, but the numbers don't look to shabby. I don;t think you can accurately attribute the increase in their stock valuation to FB's IPO.
But the source is important when you consider that it's strategic. As in, Amazon has profitted from the patent wars up until now, but now that they are planning to make a move into smart phones where they don't have as much ammunition, they want everyone to play nice.
"Sorry as mentioned, totally new to all of this and this Subreddit's description fit my interests:   **""Topics of Interest  Market and Economy News Business Earnings and Releases Investor and Trader Tips News that Moves the Markets Long Term and Short Term Investment Ideas Economic Related Humor Most Anything Related to the Economy And, most EVERYTHING is Related to the Economy""**  However, I appreciate your info and will test out the other pages subscribers knowledge :)"
No, this is quite wrong. Almost all hedge funds (and all hedge fund investors) use Sharpe as a *primary* measure of performance. The fact that they don't consider themselves risk-free has no bearing on the issue (that's a bizarre line of reasoning - you're saying Sharpe is only relevant for assets that consider themselves risk-free?). And as AlphaPortfolio rightly points out, most funds have no explicit benchmark and they are usually paid for performance over zero.  I've never seen a hedge fund use a benchmark relative information ratio - for starters, what benchmark would you measure a CB arb fund against? Or market neutral quant? Or global macro? Same for CTAs...
The deadline to mail is February 15. However, if the form is being prepared by a middleman (i.e. Wells Fargo) then they have until March 15th (on page 24). Also, if you haven't received your 1099 form by February 14, you may contact the IRS and they will contact and request the missing form on your behalf. I know that's a lot of information, but to answer your question, yes, there are situations where March 15th is the deadline instead of February 15th.
HFT doesn't increase correlations nor do hedge funds, If you look at the euro crisis, correlations have skyrocketed, then in late december jan and feb during the rally the correlations started subsiding and specific risk started taking over, crisis mode increases correlations.
For Massachusetts, we have 3 locations and one just opened earlier in October. the data is skewed to benefit the restaurants with fewer locations in the state.   They need to look at it as most popular per person, not busiest store relative to how many locations are in the state.
No protective order; no NDA; no disco clawback arrangement... sounds like WF just handed over a bargaining chip the size of Kansas. Doesn't mean they can't (eventually) get it back through court processes (as an inadvertent disclosure of a trade secret... maybe), but it's a fuck up more quickly and easily resolved by buying it back.
This is all somewhat true. The likely scenario was that those transactions were flagged in the banks suspicious activity monitoring system for potential layering activity and they may have filed a suspicious activity report with FinCEN and may have a policy to close accounts with suspicious activity.
Let's see here....how much does the Sears board make?  http://www1.salary.com/SEARS-HOLDINGS-CORP-Executive-Salaries.html  He makes a dollar, but there's that 3.4 million dollars in, what I'm sure is, prime class A stock that gets paid FIRST if the whole place collapses.  With 11 million dollars spread across just a few people, and the company in dire straits, I can see why they'd be worried.
Of course they would have failed. Every big bank would have failed in 2008 if the Fed didn't step in. Jamie is good at spin and you're good at catching his talking points.  The 13 billion was only partially about Bear (a small part). If it was all Bear you can bet Dimon would have been telling that to anyone who would listen.
Well -- It hits them where it hurts  140 to 113 in 3 days of trading --  Yep that hurts and hurts them exactly where it should.  Yes I am aware of the executive selling prior to the announcement.   But other CEO's are seeing this too and will not want it to happen to them.   So I respectfully disagree that they won't be held into account.  They already have been by the market.
"Yeah, hence the ""it is more complicated"" line. I don't have all the facts, I just know our govt is colluding with these guys in wall street and The Fed, etc... and it is all about making certain people very rich and basically looting the middle class."
"Sigh.  &gt;just quoting the plaintiff's attorney. That's not going to be the source of unbiased information.  A COURT OF LAW determined this outcome.  It's not a biased opinion.  &gt;I most likely know far more about this topic than you...  While I am not making any assumptions on you base of knowledge.  Know that I have spent over 12 years in the finance arena.  I have my series 6, 7, 24 and 65.  I have worked for the Vanguard Group, Schwab Institutional (as Director level) and as a private investment manager. I would classify my knowledge level as ""above the average bear"".  I apologize if my previous post(s) came across as condescending - I have covered a number of examples in the hopes that we might find some mutual agreement to the following (initial) diversion of opinion:  Paraphrase:  ""sometimes Corporate BK laws are manipulated and go beyond the original intent of the original law"".   It's as simple as that.  I do not believe using these ""tools"" in this manner is ""good business"" practice."
Braeburn is no more a hedge fund than any other off-shore entities corporations create to manage taxes creatively. All of the major corporate entities in the world do the same thing. Apple isn't even very good at it comparatively.
The four points mentioned above (without reading the paper in greater detail) all emphasize modern day balance sheet analysis. We should not conflate that with earnings analysis all of a sudden are a thing of the past and no longer valuable.
If he triple dipped right now he wouldn't have the shares he needs to keep bleeding the company dry. The stock price isn't in the long game, Sears' land holdings is though. What happens when Sears can't pay him back? He'll just take payment in the form of more property. Problem solved!
Really? Tesla and the gigabit factory are going to be players in a wide range of markets from automotive to power storage.  And the Falcon Heavy is the largest launch vehicle since the saturn V, they are paving the way for commercial space flight.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falcon_Heavy
"It was so awesome (like a really good bowel movement) to hear the congresscritters start to say ""fortress balance sheet"" in a sarcastic and slightly taunting way.  Well deserved given that most of the fortress is due to the government TBTF backstop."
"Nobody knows for sure what ""substantially identical"" means because the IRS hasn't officially defined it. Until they do so, it would come down to the decision of an auditor or a tax court. The rule of thumb that I have always heard is if the funds track the same index, they are probably substantially identical. I think most people wouldn't consider any pair of AGG, CMF, and NYF to be substantially identical, so you should be safe with your tax-loss harvesting strategy."
"Question - Why does Renn Tech limit capital from outside investors while also leveraging their positions 4-5X ? Wouldn't they rather gain more in fees than pay interest on the leverage?  Quote: ""The investment paid off. Today the equities group accounts for the majority of Medallion’s profits, primarily using derivatives and leverage of four to five times its capital, according to documents filed with the U.S. Department of Labor. 4""  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-11-21/how-renaissance-s-medallion-fund-became-finance-s-blackest-box"
The board refuses to fire him because he is also the majority shareholder and main creditor, so really other stockholders are just in his private play to extract money out of a great pubco tanker he has been running aground.
Going to get down voted to hell because its not what you want to hear but:  So over a 9 year period the author of the study claims that after 56 incidents the industry is corrupt. Does this guy have any idea how many hedge funds there are out there? its well over 10,000 and there are probably around 20 incidents a year in which they could redeem ahead of investors.  Finance is completely corrupt and broken to all hell but ridiculous reports like this and knee jerk reactions wont solve anything.
"No, you're glossing over some very interesting issues here (as did ZH... very disappointed... shocked, really).  Here's the bottom line:  due to the USA's particular brand of fucked up foreign policy, foreign relations actions in one part of the world have produced an unexpected outcome due to the USA's neglect to take care of business on the other side of the world.  That outcome was one of Russia's largest state oil companies ending up with majority ownership of an American going interest, Citgo.  Now it looks pretty fucking odd when Russia, a country currently experiencing USA imposed sanctions, ends up owning American refineries that could be used to basically make up for any economic damage (thanks, Hurricane Harvey) the state dept. sanctions might have caused in the first place.  So, Goldman S. was authorized to clean up the fucking mess by creating a ""rehypothecation event"" on Citgo's assets to which Russia will lack complete (legal) credibility.  It really doesn't get any clearer or more obvious than this.  Meanwhile, South American good will is eroding faster than Florida coastline during a global warming tipping point."
Google finance will allow you to import earnings report dates directly to your Google calendar. See screenshot with calendar import button circled in red below.
First of all, I couldn't be happier that you, ultraspeedz, replied to my post. I always enjoy your comments.  I am long only. So should I be simply be buying ATM calls with my weights?  [Here's a PDF of my portfolio/excel workbook. I'm trying to lever this up.](https://dl.dropbox.com/u/23312903/4%20geo%20and%20semivariance.pdf)  Thank you.   edit: Also, I'm more than willing to hear and criticism about my model.
I think Facebook got ripped-off. Lucas film have solid earning and proven franchise that will run for at least several generations to come while Instagrams is more like a fad but then Facebook is a fad so maybe not so much of rip off.
And then they got caught for inside trading because the CEO was getting inside information, but now they are private and I think he offers at least 30% now. Don't believe me, Idc. SAC capital is right down the street from where I work and I know the personal secretary for the CEO of SAC capital.
"As others have noted, US law says that if you have over half the bill, it's worth the full value, under half is worth nothing. I presume if it is very close to half, if even careful measurements show that you have 50.5%, you'll have difficulty cashing it in, precisely because the government and the banking system aren't going to allow themselves to be easily fooled by someone cutting bills in half and then trying to redeem both halves. I've seen several comments on here about how you'd explain to the bank how so many bills were cut in half. What if you just told them the truth? Not the part about killing someone, of course, but tell them that you made a deal, neither of you wanted to bother with complex contracts and having to go to court if the other side didn't pay up, so your buddy cut all the bills in half, etc. As you now have both halves and they clearly have the same serial number, this no real evidence of fraud. Okay, this is technically illegal -- 18 US Code Section 333, ""Whoever mutilates, CUTS, defaces, disfigures, or perforates, or unites or cements together, or does any other thing to any bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt issued by any national banking association, or Federal Reserve bank, or the Federal Reserve System, with intent to render such bank bill, draft, note, or other evidence of debt unfit to be reissued, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than six months, or both."" But you didn't do it, the other guy did. I presume the point of this law is to say that you can't get a hold of currency belonging to someone else and mutilate it so as to make it worthless. As he's now given you both halves, I doubt anyone would bother to track him down and prosecute him. Just BTW, while checking up on the details of the law, I stumbled across 18 USC 336, which says that it's illegal to write a check for less than $1, with penalties of 6 months in prison. I just got a check from AT&T for 15 cents for one of those class action suits where the lawyers get $100 million and the victims get 15 cents each. Apparently that was illegal."
I cant be the only person who thinks these fines a ridiculous. First they end up hurting the shareholders, second no actual accountability is attained through these fines. You fine then, they squeeze their bottom line to pay it and its back to business as usual.
"They are not selling stocks. They are selling OJ futures contracts. Selling a futures contract at 142 gives the buyer the right to buy a fixed number of pounds of orange juice concentrate (""OJ"") on a future date at 142 cents per pound. The seller has an obligation to suppy that fixed number of pounds of OJ to the buyer on the future date for 142 cents per pound. When the seller turns around and buys future contracts at 29, the seller gets the right to buy OJ on a future date at 29. This ""zeros his position"" -- meaning he's guaranteed himself the ability to deliver the pounds of OJ he was obligated to supply when he sold futures contracts at 142. And since he'll only have to pay 29 cents per pound, and he'll be selling the OJ for 142 per pound, he'll walk away with 113 cents of profit for every pound sold. You can read a blow-by-blow account of what Winthorpe and Valentine did at the end of ""Trading Places"" here and here. Note that what they did would not be legal today under the ""Eddie Murphy rule"", which prohibits trades based on illicitly obtained government information."
How did they violate the law if he hasn't been declared legally incompetent? I'm not saying they didn't I just don't personally know and I'm sure if she can state exactly HOW it was illegal to the dealership they would be more likely to just refund it.
Assuming you have no non-public material information, it should be perfectly legal. I suspect it's not a great idea for the reasons that Joe outlined, but it should be legal.
&gt;they're breaking the law.  Yeah and we all know how big corporations get prosecuted for doing that these days...  So if someone is a SMALL producer and does it, yeah they'll get nailed.  But the big dogs (like Tyson, et al) ... probably not (or no more than a slap on the wrist).
I checked this myself and there is no monetary penalty for late filing. However, since I am late I have to do all publication over again which costs me extra $50.
It is a scam organization praying on fear of the simple minded.  The facts Edelson presents are not accurate -  http://www.sec.gov/litigation/admin/2006/ia-2525.pdf
This is the interesting part.  If one reads between the lines it seems that they used bots to upvote posts.  This violated their (reddit) TOS.  Evidence dammit, we need proof.  (We've got  our pitchforks ready)   I'm all for protecting the voting system.  I think it would be interesting to see data that shows this seo/spamy behavior.