NY Magazine – At the Bellagio in Las Vegas today, there are some pretend gamblers — people betting tiny sums on hands of blackjack and poker and plugging nickels into slot machines. And then, in the conference center just off the main casino, there are the real gamblers — hundreds of hedge fund workers, all dressed in suits and ties and ready to talk about throwing billions of dollars around the global markets.
This is SALT — properly known as the SkyBridge Alternatives Conference — an annual confab of hedge fund industry workers thrown in Vegas by Anthony Scaramucci, a garrulous hedge fund booster who was described by our own Jessica Pressler as “a petite man-shaped fireball of energy.
