Mr. Luskin of OpenFund said greater disclosure would have drawbacks for widely watched managers, for managers who make a small number of big bets, and for managers of large, potentially market-moving funds like Fidelity Magellan, with $104.6 billion in assets.
A Presidential Briefing Book from the well-connected Brookings Institution does not include a serious push on climate change (a key European wish) in its list of "Big Bets" for second-term action.
Boone Pickens is probably best known for his big bets on oil and gas.
Banks will no longer be allowed to rely on deposit insurance and being "too big to fail" as a basis for taking big bets, he says.
After all, the company, noted for its big bets on technology stocks, has arguably been the mutual fund firm to profit most from the bull market.
Mr. Lewis had earned a reputation for taking big bets that helped transform NationsBank, a small lender, into a consumer powerhouse with bicoastal branches — and was often accused of overpaying.
KPCB, of course, is known for making big bets companies that often turn out to be the tech industry's brightest stars: Facebook, Google, Amazon, Zynga, and Groupon are just a tiny sample of the companies that Kleiner Perkins has backed.
Paulson became famous for placing big bets that subprime mortgages were about to fail en masse, and at one point was making $10 million a day, or $4 billion total at the peak of the housing collapse, according to the Wall Street Journal.
Still, not long to wait before we see what HTC has in store for its big bet for 2014.
But the directive, intended to prevent banks from making big bets for their own accounts, remains vague enough for Goldman and its Wall Street rivals to put plenty of money at risk.
