Matt Levine, Columnist

Mental Games and Libor Blame

Also the FCIC, Valeant, the GSEs, unicorns, etc.

March 14, 2016 at 12:58 PM UTC

Matt Levine is a Bloomberg Opinion columnist. A former investment banker at Goldman Sachs, he was a mergers and acquisitions lawyer at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz; a clerk for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit; and an editor of Dealbreaker.

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Sports psychology.

Is it weird that the asset management business is so invested in fine-tuning and micromanaging its workers' psyches? You have the goofball cult that is Bridgewater, and now the news that Point72 Asset Management, Steve Cohen's once and future hedge fund, is hiring a sports psychologist to be its "head performance coach." Apparently he has helped a lot of golfers play better golf, which has an obvious relevance at a hedge fund, but I assume his role at Point72 is to help with "the mental game" of investing.