Write-Offs: 01.22.13
$$$RBS speeds up investment arm split [Telegraph]
$$$How much value does the finance industry create? [Noahpinion]
$$$ Leverage can increase volatility and diversification can reduce risk [WSJ]
$$$Why London hedge fund wives don’t do Switzerland [EFC]
$$$Cheese fire causes traffic meltdown in Norway tunnel [Reuters]
$$$Registration for the 5th annual Decathlon starts today! This year’s competition takes place on July 28th, and also includes monthly “Throw Downs” where all registered Decathletes compete in 1-2 Decathlon events and collect charity bets on head-to-head match-ups (40 yard dash! Pull-ups! Bench press!). All proceeds benefit the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
$$$ A hedge fund in New York is looking for a quantitative macro strategist/economist [DBCC]
$$$Wells Fargo Lifts Quarterly Dividend 14% [FBN]
$$$Deutsche Bank Said to Be Asked by Bafin to Simulate Split [Bloomberg]
$$$Schroders Worker Among FSA Insider-Trading Probe Arrests [Bloomberg]
$$$ Is seducing executives in order to get and trade on inside information illegal? [NetNet / John Carney]
$$$‘Your Cat Is Not Innocent’: New Zealand Man Launches Campaign to Rid Country of Cats [Gawker]