According to Rothstein Kass in a recent study, an index of women-led funds produced a net return of 9%, compared to a global index return of a mere 3%.
And then we've got Sam Kass who a lot of you probably met -- (applause) -- but Sam is in charge of the White House Garden, so he oversees all of that along with all of our wonderful White House chefs.
There aren't any statistics that track the practice, but Michael Oates, a CPA with Rothstein Kass in New York who advises alternative investment funds, says many hedge funds are allowing U.S. individual investors to come in through foreign feeder funds or are considering it.
Kass, a frequent commentator on CNBC and contributor to TheStreet, has written critical articles of Berkshire in the past, often praising Buffett while raising questions about his ability to maintain a high batting average as size of deals and investments required to impact the bottom line continues to increase.
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Yet, despite their higher returns, female-run hedge funds are a small minority of the industry, a scant 16% of Rothstein Kass's respondents.
In a "grantor trust, " for example, the tax is paid by the person who sets up the trust, so it doesn't drain assets from the trust itself, says Alan Kufeld, a certified public accountant at Rothstein Kass's family-office group.
In a 2008 essay highly critical of Dr. Kass's work on the Bush bioethics council, the Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker questioned the value of dignity as a moral guide.
The Kalenjin-language Kass FM, meanwhile, is broadcasting a song calling for "love and cohesion".
According to an index from the firm Rothstein Kass, female hedge fund managers produced a return of nearly 9% through the third quarter of 2012 (based on 67 hedge funds with female owners or managers), while their male counterparts, according to the HFRX Global Hedge Fund Index, choked out a mere 2.69% net return through September.
Leon Kass was born in Chicago in 1939 to a family of Jewish immigrants.
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They were joined by Assistant White House Chef Sam Kass, who told the kids that they had a responsibility to be teachers as well as students -- when it comes to healthy eating.
"Increasingly, over the last five years, consumer electronics have played a greater role in the top-line growth of tech companies, " says Doug Kass, general partner of hedge fund Seabreeze Partners.
While he was a medical student, he met and married his wife of nearly 52 years, the classics scholar Amy Kass.
" Even so, Dr. Kass says, "in the face of our ignorance about its status, the embryo does have a certain claim on us.
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