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Top 20 Hedge Funds 2009
When you look at hedge fund performance so far in 2009, it seems that some of them have been making a lot of money while others are still losing their jobs… Is life unfair?
Top 20 Hedge Funds 2009
1/ Turnberry Capital +130.69%
2/ Palomino Capital +114.43%
3/ Henderson European ABS +110.66%
4/ Pentwater Event Fund +81.10%
5/ RAB Energy Class +74.96%
6/ Redwood Capital Masters +70.38%
7/ Pharo Master Fund +68.25%
8/ Henderson UK Equity +66.23%
9/ Delta Fund Europe +64.96%
10/ Dorset Energy Fund +59.66%
11/ Templeton Emerging Market Fund +58.65%
12/ Element Capital Fund +58.43%
13/ Pars IV Offshore Fund +56.97%
14/ Canyon Value Realization +54.78%
15/ Zadig Fund Class +51.68%
16/ Stone Liond Fund +51.37%
17 Forest Glib +51.23%
18/ GLS Offshore +49.47%
19/ Feingold Okeefe Capital +49.14%
20/ HSBC Distressed Opportunity +48.94%
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Making money with Text Link Ads
First off, I have to admit that in most of my online ventures, I haven’t really succeeded. Adsense has not yet yielded me a dime in actual payouts. Affiliate programs have never really worked for me. Referral programs haven’t worked. Paid to email and paid to play games or surf the net seem to take too much time and not give enough back in return.
The one success that I’ve had was with .
One day, I googled “How to make money with your blog” and I found a list of ten things one guy had tried. I signed up for them all using my blog “Poor Vago’s Almanack” and then I waited to see the results. A few ads sold in the first month and I got a payment for $22 from TLA. Then they just kept selling. At one point, I was getting around $240 a month but then back in February, my payouts started to decrease. This came from a combination of things, 1st, TLA had stopped taking ads from gambling sites and casinos. 2nd, my content had shifted from fairly racey stuff to tales of my travels and adventures and as a result my pagerank had decreased. At least that is what I think happened. At the moment, I am making about $130 a month.
I don’t remember any of the other programs I signed up for, but definitely works and it does so in a way that doesn’t leave big ugly ads all over your site. In fact, I’ve never found a TLA ad on my front page.
So sign up for TLA today and see if you too can start making some money. It really works.
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A message from JayPee Morgan
this comes from JayPeeMorgan.com The World’s Least Trusted Financial Advice.
Well, it’s the start of a new week and we are telling our clients to buy, buy, buy and to hold, hold, hold. The reason for this is that it looks like another meltdown is getting ready to begin. There’s only so many cards that a table of smoke and mirrors can support and we figure it’s all about to go up in smoke again.As Rick Perlstein writes, “the crazy tree blooms in every moment of liberal ascendancy, and where elites exploit the crazy for their own narrow interests.
I couldn’t agree more. For instance, we keep hearing how the economy is set to rebound, but look at the data and you see something quite different:
More than 15.2 million U.S. mortgages, or 32.2 percent of all mortgaged properties, were in negative equity position as of June 30, 2009 according to newly released data from First American CoreLogic. As of June 2009, there were an additional 2.5 million mortgaged properties that were approaching negative equity. Negative equity and near negative equity mortgages combined account for nearly 38 percent of all residential properties with a mortgage nationwide.
To me, this looks like Katrina is ready to strike again.
You didn’t really believe it could be that easy for everyone to own their own home did you? Even my crack dealer knew that was a lie.
The Obama administration, in a major shift on housing policy, is abandoning George W. Bush’s vision of creating an “ownership society’’ and instead plans to pump $4.25 billion of economic stimulus money into creating tens of thousands of federally subsidized rental units in American cities.
Based on our economic data and the opinion of my crack dealer, “Mojo”, I am fairly certain that the bottom of the housing market is still nearly five years ahead of us. Real unemployment sits at nearly 25% (because remember, the figures you hear elsewhere are only those collecting benefits, which run out, so when it seems that the numbers are getting better, just the opposite is true. Now they are unemployed and incomeless too.)
All of that is why we recommend that you buy and hold. No one else is going to.
Stocks are plunging and Treasury prices are soaring in the early moments of trading Monday as investors around the world fear that consumers are too skittish to help lift the economy into recovery.
U.S. stocks are down sharply after overseas markets extended the heavy selling that began Friday. That pullback followed a weaker-than-expected reading on consumer confidence.
After sending stocks higher for five months on expectations of an economic recovery, investors are now worried that they have been too optimistic given consumers’ continuing reluctance to spend.
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Making money online – Moolah
I’ve started to get serious about making money online. One of the blogs I recently bought is NewsNotion.com, which is all about making money online. I’m going through the old posts and I’m going to try out every bit of it. I will be posting all of my results here along with new content for this site.
I figure the first thing to do is to go through Casey’s post and see if I can learn what she is teaching. I’m starting at the back and working forward, so the first post on this blog is about Moola. Here is the link to Casey’s post on Moola.http://www.newsnotion.com/2007/04/08/moola/
I promise, I will be adding strategies and tactics of my own, but for the moment, I need to get up to speed on what everyone here already knows. At first glance, Moola seems interesting. I’ve grown pretty distrustful of any kind of gaming through the years. The reasons casinos are so big is because most people lose, so I’m sure that there is a lose factor built in to Moola. I’m going to sign up though and give it a shot.
It’s actually pretty fun and the upside is that they do give you your first penny. The whole concept is that if you double that penny 30 times, you have $10 million dollars! Not bad. I just played my first couple of games and I’ve won so far. Of course, I’m still in the .25 cent or less range.
It’s free to sign up and more amusing than taking facebook quizzes.
Sign up here.
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Blogging for Dollars
It’s funny. My life vacillates between two poles. The completely spiritual and the necessity for money. The two aren’t necessarily incompatible, but at the same time I would love to be able to focus totally on the first without concern for the second. Unfortunately, it’s nearly impossible to do the first without getting distracted by the concerns of the second.
Lately I’ve been spending 8-10 hours a day writing content, researching ways to create a successful blog, and trying to implement the strategies of the successful. At the moment, I would guess from looking at the everything I’ve been looking at that I am more successful at what I am doing than about 75% of the people who are blogging the way I do. In other words, about 75% of us are not doing very much in terms of making dollars through blogging.
I’ve implemented quite a few new things in the past few days, but it will take time to see if they bear any fruit. I will let you know. Since I have this time, by the will of the Creator, I am nearly certain that this is what I am meant to be doing with it. We shall see.
In the meantime, for those of you who blog, write, or use the internet to make money, what are you doing that is working?
Feel free to promote your content and websites.
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