Heather Pelant, a personal investor strategist at Blackrock, has developed a list of five “cocktail party conversation starters” for the holiday season. BlackRock also sent out the advice on its twitter account:
— BlackRock® (@blackrock) December 19, 2014
Most of the semi-scripted conversations appear to paper over real problems that those involved in hedge fund risk management community might consider on their radar. Thus, I offer an alternative “five cocktail party conversation starters” is what might take place among hedge fund insiders whispering truth talk in-between egg nog and cold shrimp.

