-The Journal of Structured Finance Articles: “Analyzing Brazilian ABS: FIDCs” and “Pricing Brazilian ABS to Trade in the Secondary Market: Benefits from Assimilating Best Pricing Practices” by Vernon Budinger.
– “Banks are going to slowly look more and more like utilities,” Novogratz said.
–“Every year you need to start from scratch again,” Quemada said. “Life at a small boutique is really tough.”
–“Life will be harder for traditional active-fund-management companies. Their market share is being eroded by the ETFs at the bottom and by private-equity and hedge funds at the top”
– A brilliant New Yorker article on Soylent, the food-replacement start-up – full of quotables: ““This is life—a walking chemical reaction” ,“Most ideas, you can claim, are not new….Often, they just haven’t been executed or marketed right.”
São Paulo, abstract wall painting at RB Station,Praça da Bandeira,República – a former electrical substation turned into art gallery.
Lockmann.org 