Hints and tips:
...John J Ray, the veteran insolvency practitioner brought in to run the bankruptcy as FTX chief executive, said on Friday that the cryptocurrency group “has valuable assets” and that the bankruptcy proceedings...
...The firm then helped shepherd the emergency bankruptcy filing and the bringing onboard of Ray....
...FTX’s Ray also gave a scathing assessment of the cost of Bankman-Fried’s actions....
...The book offers a scathing investigation of the “radical transparency” espoused by Bridgewater’s billionaire founder Ray Dalio....
...DD’s Antoine Gara and the FT’s Amanda Chu report on the “nightmare” of muck and broken toilets that unfolded at the Burning Man festivities in a Nevada desert this Labor Day weekend....
...And finally I have (rather belatedly) started reading The Fund by Rob Copeland a super-deep dive in to Ray Dalio and Bridgewater....
...His professor’s glasses caught a stray ray from the window. The rain’s ghostly reflections formed sea-foam crystals on the table, washing one world into the other, rippling the frame....
...So do characters like Dime Ray Belly, a “round short man with a scrunched face that gathered near his jowls and puckered like the protruding ass of a monkey”....
...Ray said he had never seen “such a complete failure of corporate controls”....
...He tapped a knuckle where freshwater inlets ebbed towards corals among which rays and reef sharks swam....
...Chief financial officer Antoine Forterre said the group wanted to expand further in credit and was considering more acquisitions....
...The Life Aquatic with Ray Dalio Why simply go yachting if you can go submarining at the same time?...
...Ray Perman is author of ‘The Rise and Fall of the City of Money’, a financial history of Edinburgh....
...DD’s Antoine Gara chronicles the star activist’s journey back to earth....
...A striking photo of a cabinet of feathers, all abstract curls, anticipates Man Ray’s Surrealist images by 70 years....
...start: Bridgewater Associates is set to cap investments in its flagship vehicle and cut about 8 per cent of its workforce in the most significant shake-up of the world’s largest hedge fund since founder Ray...
...The bid to tell his life story was ill-defined, overlong and underlit — eight years with Russell Maliphant has dancers reaching for their Ray-Bans for anything over 40 watts....
...One video to start: DD’s Antoine Gara delves into the tale of Jake Freeman, the 20-year-old student who ended up making more than $100mn at the height of meme-stock mania....
...The initial verdict from John Ray III, the veteran insolvency professional brought in to run the business, was devastating....
...But a wave of large deals over the past 12 months underscores that bankers have found creative ways to sidestep frozen credit markets, DD’s Antoine Gara and Eric Platt report....
...Ray Barrell: Growth in the UK should be moderately positive in the next year....
...Charlie Watts, the Stones drummer who died this week, layered in the samba beat for a truly Latin-jazz rhythm in the style of Kenny Clarke on “A Night in Tunisia”. Judd Kinne Singapore...
...Smart reads The ‘Ray-whisperer’ rallying the right How did David McCormick, the diversity-touting, Davos-attending Bridgewater CEO, turn into a MAGA-verse main character?...
...A year after the riots, photojournalist Bill Ray returned to the Los Angeles neighbourhood on behalf of Life magazine to document the community....
...More staff turnover at Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater Associates....
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