The Dark Knight: A Better Class Of Criminal?
“This town deserves a better class of criminal,” Heath Ledger announces as the Joker in the new Batman film, Dark Knight. The caped crusader, police captain Jim Gordon and district attorney Harvey Dent...
View ArticleBruce Wayne: Your Typical Self-Dealing Corporate Chieftain Lionized By Wall...
Yesterday we explained that Bruce Wayne–who fights street crime and evil clowns by night–has all the markings of a corporate criminal. We even went so far as to explain that Wayne seems like exactly...
View ArticleCliff Asness’s Boyhood Pursuits: Girls, Comic Books, Beatdowns
In writing about hedge fund managers and other celebs in the world of finance, sometimes I find myself wondering what these men were like as children, before the billions, and the bitches, and the...
View ArticleAsness Thinks New Financial Reform Bill is Ass Backwards
While Sen. Chris Dodd’s financial reform bill is one giant 1,300 page tome, it’s so vague that almost any financial product known to man will come under its purview. That’ll create the “largest and...
View ArticleConsidering How Many Of You Undoubtedly Harbor Fantasies About Driving This...
Not saying, LLOYD, just saying LLOYD– it’s parked outside bankruptcy court at 40 Broadway circa now. Just putting it out there. Continue reading »Follow Dealbreaker on Twitter or become a fan on...
View ArticleSee If You Can Guess The Tattoo That Appears On Cliff Asness’s Right Forearm
These are your hints: 1) Asness is currently a Marvel comic book collector, in addition to his duties at AQR Capital 2) As we know from Scott Patterson’s The Quants, as a teenager in on Long Island,...
View ArticleCaption Contest Thursday
Prince William broke the record for the largest foreign currency trade when he joined his father to take part in the ICAP fancy-dress charity day on Wednesday. He joked with one bank: “I have got...
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Greenwich, Connecticut Nobody Threatening To Dethrone Area Hedge Fund Manager...
Exhibit A: Friday morning at AQR, August 10. Cliff Asness glanced pensively at a candy-colored array of Marvel superhero figurines lined up along his east-facing window. Spiderman. Captain America. The...
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Batman Participated In Archer Ltd’s Earnings Call Yesterday
You can hear the audio here (Bruce Wayne comes on the line at 35:50), and for those who like to follow along, a transcript: Operator We will now take a question from Bruce Wayne with Wayne Enterprises....
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Short Seller Ferrets Out Bad Market Characters, Educates Public On...
When he’s not exposing Spanish WiFi scams, Gotham City Research founder David Yu offers a rare and unique glimpse into the behaviors of a rarely discussed guy named Batman. The short seller that helped...
View ArticleNothing Chaps Cliff Asness’s Hide More Than The Fact That He Can’t Build A...
Even billionaires can't always get what they so desperately want.
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