06/29/09 The Raw Greenwich News Feed:

Fairfield Greenwich Group Is Back Open For Business By John Carney The lights are back on in the Manhattan offices of Madoff's enablers. The Business Insider - http://www.businessinsider.com/

Greenwich argues against too much trust in models ... Pension funds, endowment and foundations investing in alternative investments should avoid too much reliance on mathematical risk models to set asset allocations and place more emphasis on the current economic environment, according to a set of best practices issued by Greenwich Roundtable. “We relied too much on quantitative techniques to tell us about the future to the exclusion of good judgment,” Steven McMenamin, executive director, said in an interview about the 74-page report, “Best Practices in Alternative Investing: Portfolio Construction.”..... Institutional Partners - http://institutionalpartners.com/

Dull day in Greenwich real estate « For What It's Worth By christopherfountain Hardly surprising, for the penultimate day of June. 19 Baliwick finally sold, for $2.025 million, after 2 1/2 years on the market asking, at first, $3.495. Oops. ... For What It's Worth - http://christopherfountain.wordpress.com/

Frank Trotta Says Hearst Newspapers Hasn't Measured Up To Greenwich Time Reader's Expectations ..... What Does the Ruler Say? – Our Greenwich By Frank Trotta I’m not an educator, but I’ve been a student enough to know some of the tricks of the trade. When you don’t have enough material to meet the teacher’s expectations you adjust the margins, play with the font, and add a lot a pictures and graphics. A clever student could make two pages of content into a five or six page report pretty easily. Now, let’s take a look at the front page of Sunday’s Greenwich Time. All three stories were Greenwich stories — a good start. But I estimate there are 120 “column inches” available on each shrunken Greenwich Time page. How much of that was “copy” (words in a story, as opposed to outlandishly large margins, pictures, headlines, promotions, advertisements, and the like)? My ruler measured 16 column inches, or roughly 13% of the available space. If you were a teacher, what grade would YOU give the student? Our Greenwich - http://ourgreenwich.com/