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Ask HN: Best sites for finance, hedge funds, private equity?

18 pointsabathingpape9 comments

HN was the first place I thought to ask, as the crowd is knowledgeable in a wide range of areas;

I've recently become interested in Private Equity, Hedge Funds and that side of finance.

What are some sites I can become more immersed in these topics.

Not necessarily knowledge based, more so HN type aggregator sites or news and current discussions. Even good historical stuff.

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http://www.nuclearphynance.com/ and

https://forum.wilmott.com/

for quant topics

https://www.bloombergbriefs.com/hedge-funds/

for hedge fund specific coverage.

If you want some specific questions answered, please feel free to contact me.

If you can get access to a bloomberg terminal - Bloomberg publishes briefs every week for each of those industries. Useful to understand the players, strategies, historical performance etc.

Also, http://blogs.wsj.com/deals/

More into audio myself, just started listening to https://chatwithtraders.com/podcast/ -- so far it tends to be less technical, but that may change with their new Quantopian series (such as episode Q1 from Nov 21). Would be interested in other podcasts/audiobooks, not sure what's out there. I enjoyed listening to https://mobile.audible.com/pd/Bios-Memoirs/Reminiscences-of-... but there are few modern relevant audiobooks.

That podcast looks to be more about day traders no?

There really isn't anything like HN for the alternative investments industry.

The business, finance and economics news found in major newspapers like WSJ and FT catch a lot of the relevant news stories.

The nature of the work and how the industry operates are such that there won't be public discussions like you find in the "Show:HN" or "Ask:HN" sections.

As another comment mentioned, the bloomberg terminal has news. And it also has a chat feature, so a lot of discussions happens on there.

Obviously BB terminals are crazy expensive, so it's hard for people not working in the industry to access that info, but if you live in NY the NY library has a few terminals that anyone can use.

http://streetsleuth.com/#tab1

Street sleuth is a good aggregator of news, but it lacks any comment system or community.

There's not really anything equivalent to HN as far as I am concerned.

Honestly, your best first step might be a university library. You want to look for retired authors, people that had very successful careers and are no longer incentivized to keep a lid on their accumulated wisdom. Be wary of academic authors; I suspect there are exceptions but logically, if they could practice what they preached they probably wouldn't be in academics any more.

http://www.wallstreetoasis.com/. I think that will have exactly what you're looking for.

https://sumzero.com/

Excellent resource.

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