Archive for March 2007
Capital Investments (Trader Monthly Mar 2007)
Capital Investments: Survey says, these are the year’s strongest buys.
The beauty of investing your bonus check in luxury real estate is that — unlike with, say, a Bugatti Veyron — you can actually live in this impulse buy. (OK, technically you could live in the Bugatti, but just imagine the leg cramps!) And our survey reveals that the habitat traders most long to inhabit is Ian Schragers’s second-ever residential property. Read the rest of this entry »
The Tip Sheet (Trader Monthly Mar 2007)
The Tip Sheet: A New York City landmark, an island getaway and Magnum’s crib vie for your attention. Read the rest of this entry »
Booking Profits (Trader Monthly Mar 2007)
Booking Profits: Literary trader David Breskin is both a Shakespeare and a Soros
Fund manager and writer David Breskin takes an interest in models. Quant models. Pricing models. And, uh, runway models. But his fascination with the latter, he insists, is less prurient than sociological. “The day after the [December 2004] tsunami, the New York Daily News headline was New York Supermodel Found,” Breskin says. “Three hundred fifty thousand people died, but the model in the tree” — Czech beauty Petra Nemcova, ultimately rescued clinging to a palm tree in Phuket, Thailand — “became the hook of the story. That pointed out that models are necessary for us. We need these kinds of icons.
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