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This Is A Photo Of Mitt Romney Appearing Not Nearly As Creative When It Comes To Places To Stick $20 Bills As His Former Bain Capital Colleagues
By Bess Levin
[via Boston]
Early last month, Forbes released its annual list of the richest people in the world. 65 alternative investment managers made the cut, with John Paulson leading the pack at a networth of $16.0 billion and Pete Peterson bringing up the rear with $1.0 billion. Ever wondered how the living/breathing rich would stack up against the fiction and in some cases illustrated rich? Wonder no longer. Forbes has put out a ranking of the richest fictional characters today, a list executive editor Michael Noer says the team goes to “great lengths to calculate, similar to how we calculate real billionaires.” Read more »
Make This The Follow-Up To A Serious Double Down Contest And Then Maybe We’ve Got Ourselves A Challenge
By Bess LevinSo it being a 3.5 day weekend and all, I’m not sticking around much past 1PM but it’s been asked that I share the following, going down at a hedge fund that shall remain nameless. Will post updates until I have to leave.
10:30: Slow day on the desk…new guy is attempting 500 pushups during market hours. So far he has done 50 with 450 to go. The last ten were kind of tough. He’s not in very good shape. We are starting to take bets on when he breaks. Thinking around the 250-300 range.
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SoFi Answers the Call to Refinance Student Loans and Provides Unique Community Benefits
This is a guest post written by SoFi’s CEO, Mike Cagney.
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Recently, there’s been a lot of talk amongst leaders in Washington about how to improve the painful process of repaying student loans. At SoFi, we feel your pain and work hard to offer more flexible, more affordable options for our borrowers. One idea that’s getting a lot of attention is increasing the options for refinancing debt after graduation. The only lender currently focused on refinancing private and federal student loans is SoFi.
We recognized early on that borrowers who have made timely payments on their loans, graduated from school, and have a job should be able to refinance their student loans at a lower interest rate. This may be why, after resuming lending by invitation, the media became increasingly interested in what we are doing.
In a recent article posted on MainStreet.com SoFi General Counsel Rob Lavet had this to say about SoFi’s ReFi products: Read more »
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1. She Isn’t Certified
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