A friend sent me this article with the headline “Why Facebook Will Be the First to $1 Trillion” and asked me if I thought FB is a good buy. There is no doubt Facebook is a booming company. To what extent none of us, including the guy who wrote the…

As a 24 year old I was desperate to move away from my parents in California — I was young and dumb and didn’t know what great weather I was leaving behind. I was good at programming and through some fluke I was handed a job at a then illustrious…

It’s a sunny day, and the morning meeting turned into a coffee in a sunny outdoor cafe. Quick lunch with a colleague turned into sitting outside a cafe in the sunshine. I’m supposed to be home early, but guess what… I’ve just been invited to drinks outdoors… Beautiful red brick…

I’m enjoying some full-blown sunshine in London. The children are finally being told to slather themselves in sunscreen, not that I take my own advice. Here’s a view of my garden:

Last year on one of the muggiest days of the year I was invited to a dinner by a non-profit I’m part of. I really didn’t want to go. London’s tube system is uncomfortably crowded most of the time and on a hot day it gets much worse. I was…

These days I’m working out of a fund manager friend’s office here in London. As quiet and nice as my home office is and as “entertaining” as my children are I do need to get into town and feel the “buzz” of finance in action. Mayfair is hedge fund central…

So you want to start your own hedge fund… Name: Firstly, you should come up with a solid name. Pirate themes are always popular — Corsair Capital, Galleon and so on. Many people use their own names — Paulson, Fisher. Slightly more creative is to put together an acronym from…

I help organize events on behalf of my US university for alumni who now live in London. Talks by professors visiting the UK are always in demand, selling out in a few days. Theatre and opera events do quite well. …

I first encountered the concept of Qi as a student. Qi is the traditional Chinese medicine term for the circulating life force that flows energetically through us. I had been suffering from a persistent, hacking cough that lasted for weeks and was hanging out at a Chinese friend’s house finishing…