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   <p><em>The uncertainty about the world that Mr Druckenmiller has conveyed in many private conversations over the past few weeks finds similar expression in the quarterly letters that other hedge fund managers have sent out to their investors. The letters from Greenlight’s David Einhorn are usually scoured by investors for prescient market themes. But in his latest quarterly letter, Mr Einhorn was more reticent than usual. John Paulson has also moved away from his bullish views. “Nobody is sending out definitive ‘this is my view’ letters these days,” says one senior hedge fund executive at a leading bank. “Nobody has any conviction. We go through rallies and we go through sell-offs and nothing is well sustained.”</em> [<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/44c8f4ea-ab1d-11df-9e6b-00144feabdc0.html">FT</a>]</p>
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   <p>As I&#8217;m sure you don&#8217;t need to be told, times are pretty tough right now for those seeking new jobs (or a job, period) on Wall Street.  Some have taken the all out begging, stand on a street corner holding wearing a sandwich board approach.  Others are going with the traditional route (networking, sending out resumes, hitting up any who&#8217;s ever given them a business card).  Neither are yielding much in the way of results.  And while it might seem counterintuitive, for a person with zero prospects to initiate talks with a potential employer by straight up demanding a job and refusing to even interview for it, maybe it&#8217;s something you ought to consider, in addition to taking various other pages from <a href="http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/cas/1905858823.html">this chick</a>&#8217;s playabook.  <a href="http://dealbreaker.com/2010/08/young-ambitious-female-mba-student-is-deadly-serious-about-soliciting-investment-banking-gig-via-casual-encounters/#more-26532" class="more-link">Continue reading &raquo;</a></p>
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&#8220;We have restored our earnings power and are excellently positioned to deliver on our strategy. At the same time, we know that it will take more time and even more effort on our part before we fully regain the trust of our clients,&#8221; UBS&#8217;s top management said in the memo distributed to the bank&#8217;s employees. The ad campaign, using the slogan &#8220;We will not rest&#8221;, is the most extensive in several years and is designed to mend relations with clients, in particular at UBS&#8217;s flagship private bank, which is still leaking assets.</p>
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After Duquesne returns money to outside investors, the other Duquesne portfolio managers are planning on spinning out their own firm. Stanley Druckenmiller will be an investor in their new fund, but he won&#8217;t be part of the new firm.</p>
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The dispute centers around whether French investment bank Natixis can cancel a deal on three credit default swaps with Goldman, which is claiming damages for breach of contract. &#8220;We are preparing our defense. We are surprised that Goldman is suing us,&#8221; a spokesman said.</p>
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KARIN WILZIG has a hard time choosing a favorite color from among the 64 that she and her husband can use to illuminate the 14 1/2- foot, 450-gallon aquarium in their TriBeCa town house. The default is fuchsia, which turns the dozen koi a deep pink. “Not pink,” said Mrs. Wilzig, 40, an artist and a mother of two small children. “Alan, go to the turquoise.” Her husband, Alan Wilzig, 45, a former banker who collects motorcycles and prides himself on the orange tanning bed in his basement, goes to the James Bond-like control panel in the kitchen, where a touch of a button turns the fish — which are specially bred to be colorless — a vivid blue. “I think they like that,” he said, walking down the steps to the sunken living room to admire the fish from another angle.  <a href="http://dealbreaker.com/2010/08/opening-bell-08-19-10/#more-26524" class="more-link">Continue reading &raquo;</a></p>
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<p><b>$$$</b> <a href="http://www.cnbc.com/id/38758810">Why success is so much harder for hedge funds now</a> [cnbc]</p>
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   <p>Last November, Matthew Tannin and Ralph Cioffi&#8217;s days were made when, in a in a flash of prosecutorial incompetence, the dream team who ran the two ridiculously named Bear Stearns funds&#8211; High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Fund and High Grade Structured Credit Strategies Enhanced Leverage Fund&#8211; were acquitted on charges of conspiracy, securities and wire fraud, and dodged 20 years each in the big house.  There was no problem whatsoever with the fact that they&#8217;d painted a rosy picture to their investors as the bottom fell out of the credit market and they moved their own money out of the time bomb which ultimately cost clients $1.6 billion and, in fact, the jury was so impressed with how the team conducted their business that many indicated 12 ready and willing investors await.  Before he was proven innocent, however, Cioffi had to do a little unloading of assets, the most valuable ones being a house in Southampton, one in New Jersey (he and his wife are now in a rental) and his prized Ferraris.  Now he tools around in his wife&#8217;s Honda and if you thought that&#8217;d be a source of depression, <a href="http://www.observer.com/2010/wall-street/ralph-cioffi-after-fall">you thought wrong</a>. Cioffi says it&#8217;s a great little car.  <a href="http://dealbreaker.com/2010/08/nothing-can-get-ralph-cioffi-down/#more-26496" class="more-link">Continue reading &raquo;</a></p>
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