Blair Hull is Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Matlock Capital, a private financial investment firm based in Chicago that works in the areas of financial engineering, systems, and investments.
Starting with the goal of establishing one of the world’s premier market-making firms, Blair Hull founded Hull Trading Company in Chicago in 1985; an organization […]
Millionaires have more in common with each other than just their bank accounts - for some millionaires, striking it rich took courage, salesmanship, vision and passion. Find out which traits are most common to the seven-figure bank account set, and what you can do to hone some of these skills in your own life.
1. Independent […]
When your grandparents lamented that a dollar just isn’t a dollar anymore, they weren’t just bellyaching. Inflation attacks the value of a dollar, reducing it as time goes by so you need more dollars as time goes on. That is one of the reasons that $1 million is often thrown around as a retirement goal. […]
Let’s face it; we all don’t make millions of dollars a year, and the odds are that most of us won’t receive a large windfall inheritance either. However, that doesn’t mean that we can’t build sizeable wealth - it’ll just take some time. If you’re young, time is on your side and retiring a millionaire […]
One of my former competitors once cornered me at a party a couple of months after she’d been relieved of her duties. “How did you always know who to put on the cover?” She was referring to the fact that while I was editor of Seventeen and CosmoGIRL!, we’d often take chances putting rising stars […]
Brandon Adams, who teaches behavioral finance at Harvard University’s Department of Economics, says some of the best candidates for Wall Street trading jobs are the professional card players at FullTiltPoker.com and similar Web sites.
“They’ve essentially been the survivors in the system, a very difficult system where 95 percent of people lose money,” the 30-year-old Adams, […]
John Paulson began his career at Boston Consulting Group before leaving to join Odyssey Partners, working under Leon Levy. He later worked in the mergers and acquisitions group at Bear Stearns. Prior to founding his own firm, he was a partner at mergers and acquisitions firm Gruss Partners LP. In 1994, he founded his own […]
1. Buying A Great Stock In A Battered Sector
Although many traders will resist selling a stock - particularly if it’s a great company with great returns and little debt - often, the reality is that despite its charm, a stock that’s performing badly may be in a sector that is being battered.
If you own a […]
Rushing to grab the tax credit and caught up in a bidding war over a distressed property, a first-time home buyer omits the basics.
Like many first-time buyers who want to take advantage of the $8,000 tax credit before it expires on November 30, Brendt Montgomery was in a rush to buy a home. And what […]
September was a brutal month for hedge funds. In fact, it was the worst-month ever for hedge funds, according to Hedge Fund Research Inc., and many of the industry’s erstwhile stars suffered debilitating declines.
Veteran hedge fund manager Jeff Matthews of Ram Partners says many hedge fund managers fell into the trap of being overly concentrated […]
