Who has been reading us?

"...finbar's imagination knows no bounds, he should spend less time blogging and more time fixing gottesman's blackberry... if glg doesn't treat him right at year end, he can come and work at the levered long UK subprime property fund I intend to launch. is he any good at building default models that factor in time spent watching big brother and england flags on 1995 golfs per capita?"
Mr M, Facebook. (Jul 2007)
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CS, Facebook (Jan 09)
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Steen Jakobsen (Dec 2007)
"...proved amazingly right on predictions (credit definitely due) ...90% of his predictions have now happened."
Observer (Oct 2008)
"...used to read your blog and think you were refreshing - publishing the things we were thinking. Then over the past few months you've published lots of daft things. Still, it can be amusing and I enjoy the hoard of news items 1st thing, cheers. Good luck old man."
Facebook Friend (Sept 2007)
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Mr Johnson, Facebook. (Jul 2007)
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Christopher Cox - The chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (2006)
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Financial Times (Oct 2006)
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Yaser Anwar, CEO, Equity Investment Ideas (Nov 2006)
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Dispute Resolution Lawyer, Milberg Weiss, New York (July 2007)
"Hat Tip Fintag"
FT Alphaville (2008)
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Brad Pitt
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"I don't know how I originally stumbled upon FiNTAG but you have to love it. Great commentary on the day's hedge fund news from the principal commentator named - of course - Fintag….the remarks alone are worth the visit."
Alpha Guy (Feb 2007)
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Aaron Task, Yahoo! Finance (Feb 2008)
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Finbar Taggit
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New York Times - anon spokesperson (Dec 2006)
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Finbar's IT Geek (Aug 2007)
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Ms VF, Facebook (Feb 2008)
"If you think the market looks bad at the moment, things could be worse according to hedge fund manager Fintag …"
Guardian (Oct 2008)
"I'm not reclusive...I'm not an introvert...I'm media shy" so said Stevie Cohen of secretative SAC Capital. A man after my own heart (except his wallet is bigger than mine of course)
"Percy Bestows Best Hedge Fund Blog Award. For a more thorough and thoroughly entertaining treatment of hedge funds, I recommend FiNTAG. I've asked my FiNTAG pals to help me with my new reality show Hedge Fund Manager".
Percy Walker (Jan 2007)
"Thank you so much for your hedge fund blog! The articles you link to are always relevant or extremely interesting … "
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Mr E.F., Facebook. (Jul 2007)
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The Daily Telegraph (Dec 2007)
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Anon (Sept 2008)
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Felix Salmon, Portfolio.com commenting on FiNTAG's commentary about Bear Stearns (June 2007).
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Finbar Taggit pretending to be Oscar Wilde:

"Unlike those faceless "suites" in New York towers, we live in buildings where Byron used to court his women and eat at the same restaurants as David Gest."


"Painting a Skoda red doesn't make it a Ferrari" (in reference to Hedge Fund replicators)

Aberdeen Asset Management
ABN Amro
Abs Investment Management
Accenture
ADP
AIG
AIG Financial Products
Albourne
Allianz
Alpha Swiss
Amaranth Advisors
Amercian Express
Aspect Capital
Atlas Venture
Australian Prudential Regulation Authority
Avenue Capital
Axis Capital Management
Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria
Bank Julius Baer Co
Bank of America
Bank of England
Bank of Ireland Asset Management
Bank of Montreal
Bank of New York Mellon
Bank of Scotland
Bank One
Bank Vontobel
Banque De Luxembourg
Barclays Capital
Barclays Global Investors
BBC
BBH
Bear Stearns
Bear Stearns Asset Management
b-finance
Bibliotheque Nationale Du Quebec
BigDough
BISYS
Blackrock
Blackstone
Bloomberg Financial Market
BNP Paribas
Boston University
Bridgewater
Brown Investment Advisory
Brummer & Partner Kapitalforvaltning
Brunswick Group
Butterfields
CalPERS
Cambridge University
Campbell & Co
Cantillon Capital
Carnegie Mellon University
Carr Futures
CA-SAM
CB Richard Ellis
CDC-IXIS
Centaurus Capital
Charles Schwab & Co
Chesapeake Capital
Chicago Trading
Chinanet Shanghai Province Network
CIBC World Markets
Citadel
Citco
Citigroup
City University
Clifford Chance
Clinton Group
CNN
Collins Stewart
Columbia University
Commerzbank
Complinet
Cook Pine Capital
Cornell University
Cosba Private Banking
Cowen & Co
Credit Agricole
Credit Suisse
Dartmouth College
DE Shaw
Deal Book
dealbreaker.com
Dean Witter
Dechert
Deerfield Capital Management
Deutsche Bank
Dow Jones
Dresdner
Dubai Financial Market
Durlacher
Ed-Hec
Ellington Management
Equinoxe Partners
Eton Park Capital
Eureka Hedge
Euromoney
European Central Bank
Factset
Fannie Mae
Federal Reserve Board
Fidelity
FIMAT
Financial Services Authority
Financial Times
First Albany
Forbes Inc
Fordham University
Fortress Investment
Fortune Asset Management
Frank Russell
Franklin Templeton
Freshfields Bruckhause Deringer
FT Alphaville
FT Ventures
FTSE International
Fund Advisers Group
Gardner Carton & Douglas
GE
Geneva Investment Management
Geometric Group
GFI Group Inc
Gibson Dunn Crutcher
Global Crossing
Goldman Sachs
Google Finance
Google Inc
Gottex Portfolio Management
Government Of Singapore Investment Corporation
Greenwich Capital Markets
Gridstone Research
Hansard International
Harbor Capital Management
Harcourt Consulting
Harris Trust & Savings Bank
Harvard University
HBK Investments
Hedge Fund Research
Hendersons
Herbert Smith
Hewlett Packard
Highfields Capital
Houlihan Lokey Howard & Zukin
HSBC Alternatives
HSBC Bank
HSBC Private Bank
IBM
Imperial College London
Ina Ist. Nazionale Assicurazioni
Independent Television News
Industrial Technology Research Institute
ING
Ing Furman Selz Asset Management
Institute For World Economics
International Fund Services
IXIS Asset Management
Jefferies & Company Inc
JMP Securities
John Wiley Sons Inc
JP Morgan Chase
KBC
Keio University
Korea Advanced Institute Of Science And Technology
KPMG
Kramer Capital Management
Kroll
Landsbanki Islands
Lansdowne Partners
Laredo National Bank
Lee Hecht Harrison
Legal & General Investment Managers
Lehman
Lloyds TSB
Lombard Odier Darier Hentsch & Cie
Macquarie
Madame Tussauds (!)
Magnetar Capital
Majestic Research
Man Group
Massachusetts Institute Of Technology
Mcdermott Will & Emery
McGraw Communications
Mckinsey & Co
Meespierson
Mellon Asset Management
Merrill Lynch
Mesirow Financial
Microsoft
Ministry Of Finance Of The Czech Republic
Monitor110
Moodys
Moore Capital
Morgan Stanley
Morning Star
NASDAQ
Nat West
National Association Of Securities Dealers
National Australia Bank
New York Institute Of Technology
New York Life Insurance Company
New York Public Library
New York Times
News International
Nikko Asset Management
Nixon Peabody LLP
Nomura Asset Management
Nomura Securities
Norodin
Northern Trust
OCBC Securities
Och-ziff Capital Management
Ophedge Investment Services
Oppenheimer
Optimal
Oracle
Pacific Crest Securities
Painewebber
Paradigm Global Advisors
Patria Finance
Pels Rijcken & Droogleever Fortuijn
Permal
Pershing
Philadelphia Stock Exchange
Pioneer IM
Piper Jaffray
Pirate Capital
Prebon Yamane
PricewaterhouseCoopers
Princeton
Prodigy Capital Partners
Proskauer Rose
Prudential Securities
Putnam Fiduciary Trust
Quintillion
Rand Merchant Bank
Renaissance Technologies Corp
Reuters
Rhicon Currency Management
RIM
Ronin Capital
Roth Capital Partners
Rothschild Capital Management
Royal Bank of Canada
Rsm Robson Rhodes
Safra National Bank
Salomon Inc
SEC
Shearman & Sterling
Singapore Management University
Singapore Tourism
Sinopia
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom
Smith Barney
SNL Financial
Softbank
State Street
Stikeman Elliott
Super Derivatives
Susquehanna Investment
Sutherland Asbill & Brennan
Svenska Handelsbanken
Swiss Re
T. Rowe Price And Associates
Tannenbaum Helpern Syracuse & Hirschtritt
Teachers Insurance And Annuities Association
Tel Aviv University
The Chase Manhattan Bank
The Economist
The Purrington Firm
The Washington Post Newspaper
ThinkEquity Partners
Thomson Financial
Threadneedle Asset Management
Tiger Global Investments
Time Warner
Trinity College Dublin
Tullett & Tokyo
U.S. Department Of State
UBS
Union Banquaire Privee
University Of Pennsylvania
University Of Wisconsin
Vandham Securities
Vega
Wachovia
Walker W S & Co
Weiss Peck & Greer
Wells Fargo
Wharton
Wilshire Associates
Winton Capital
Yahoo Finance
Yale University
You're making me hungry with all these restaurant photos. I really must find my way over to London sooner rather than later. If it wasn't for the poor, sad U.S. Dollar. I love the blog - keep it up!
s0ren (June 2007)
Zurich