Sunday, August 12, 2012

Wall Street Is Back as a Villain




NY Times’ Dealbook writes: We at DealBook often dream of reviewing movies for The New York Times And once in a while, a finance-oriented film comes along to pique our interest.

A new independent movie, “Supercapitalist,” incorporates modern-day tools (smartphones, computer data dumps) to the familiar villain of Wall Street greed. The film also touches on many of the business themes familiar to Wall Streeters: poison pills, short-selling, bets on Fed monetary policies and of course, wealth.

Though it may seem that financiers would shun anything that would cast them in a harsh light, the film’s executive producers include Sam Kwok, who is a director at a venture capital firm focused on early-stage media and technology investment, and John Hsu, who manages his family’s investment portfolio of stocks hedge funds, properties, private equity and venture capital.The director, Simon Yin, also nods to the globalization of money that has shifted financial centers to other parts of the world. Although New York plays a major role, it is now Hong Kong that is main backdrop as Asia is the center for wealth and success….

Read all about it at http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/08/10/in-supercapitalist-wall-street-is-back-as-a-villain/

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