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Washington Post/ Bloomberg: Brazil Hedge Funds Trounce Competition
Big-picture story on the state of Brazil's hedge fund industry - June, 2011
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Alex R.
New York, NY, USA
$1000 - $1500 / Day
About
Alex Ragir is a journalist, filmmaker, incessant truth-seeker and co-founder of Storyhunter, the world’s #1 video creator marketplace and freelancer management system. As Chief Community Officer, Alex built the Storyhunter network from zero to over 25,000 members in 192 countries while forging partnerships with 200+ of the world’s leading media companies, advertising agencies and brands. He also hosts an interview show called The Rough Cut with Alex Ragir, where we get an inside look into the most innovative minds in the digital media industry. Before co-founding Storyhunter in 2012, Alex was a documentary filmmaker and foreign correspondent for Bloomberg News in Rio de Janeiro and Associated Press in Sao Paulo. A frequent contributor to Businessweek and Bloomberg Markets magazine, he won the 2010 Overseas Press Club award for his investigative reporting on financial crimes across Latin America. He's also the recipient of SABEW's award for 2010’s best international investigative story. When not hosting a Storyhunter ScreenUp, Alex likes to climb mountains, DJ and mimic people’s accents.
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The Rough Cut With Alex Ragir: Jason Beauregard from VaynerMedia
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The Rough Cut with Alex Ragir: Jamie Bolding from Jungle Creations
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Bloomberg Markets Magazine: How the World's Biggest Banks Help Rich Brazilians Evade Taxes and Launder Money
Investigative journalism awards for this story: -Winner of the 2010 Robert Spiers Benjamin award for a Bloomberg Markets magazine story about Latin American Law-breaking by Big Banks. -SABEW award for "Best International Investigative Story"- 2010 http://sabew.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/04/best-in-business-2011-updated-new.pdf
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Businessweek: Brazil's Credit Boom Could End in Tears
The bailout of a Brazilian lender has exposed the need for greater supervision of the local consumer credit industry, which is growing rapidly.
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Businessweek: Rousseff Battles Brazil's Graft Machine
Brazil’s Rousseff is less tolerant of graft, which costs the economy an estimated $28.7 billion to $47.7 billion annually.
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