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  • 03 Dec 2010 at 3:03 PM

Stockbroker And Jets Fan Pete Mulieri Invites Patriots Fans Into His Home To Argue That One Super Bowl Win Is Better Than Three, Show Them His Paintings

By Bess Levin

Hey Patriots fans– have you seen a guy walking his Maltese around Boston lately on a Jets leash? No? Well take a little fucking notice, because he’s doing it for YOU. So get angry, god damn it. Come up to him and punch in the face or something. Seriously, he wants you to.

Pete Mulieri is an ex-New Yorker and now a stockbroker at Investment Technology Group in Boston, who walks his dog on a New York Jets leash and wears a Jets jersey to provoke New England Patriots fans.“I do rub it in,” said Mulieri, 52.

The leash and Jersey taunting, of course, is just part of Mulieri’s attack. Continue reading »

  • 02 Jul 2010 at 1:00 PM

Adam Sender Displays Art Around Office Other Hedge Fund Managers Wish They Had The Stones To Put Up

By Bess Levin

Put it on the trading floor, or better yet, the lobby and that’ll send a message (“This is how it’s gonna be. You have been warned, so don’t come crying to us when your PM busts out a collar.”).

The art in Aibel (Sender’s curator)’s office at Exis Capital veers into the risque. A photograph by German artist Thomas Ruff depicts a blurry woman in lingerie towering over a man on a leash crawling beside her. Aibel joined Sender in 2006, working alongside curator Todd Levin, who spearheaded Sender’s collection from 1998 to 2008.

Adam Sender Dresses Up Hedge Fund Rooms With Ruscha, Dan Flavin [Bloomberg via BI]