By Mehdi Farooq
January 15, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Credit | Economics | Monetary Policy & Inflation | Rates
January 15, 2020
A new paper by Harvard economist Paul Schmelzing, Eight centuries of global real interest rates, R-G, and the ‘suprasecular’ decline, 1311-2018, puts…
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By Abdul Akram
January 15, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Business & Technology | Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
January 15, 2020
How does one avoid investing in a company like WeWork? Its original IPO valuation was $47bn but it ended up being valued closer to $14bn…
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By Presiyana Karastoyanova
January 09, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation | Sustainability & Social Issues
January 09, 2020
Dissecting a company’s quarterly earnings report, digging into business models, and looking for signs of mispricing: for most value investors…
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By Bilal Hafeez
January 09, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure | Geopolitics | Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
January 09, 2020
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By Thorsten Wegener
January 09, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Equities
January 09, 2020
With the S&P 500 and almost every other major index at critical junctures, loading up on gamma could be a smart move. But what is it?…
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By Bilal Hafeez
December 18, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Fiscal Policy & Inequality
December 18, 2019
Numerous theories claim to explain the gender gaps in pay and promotions. But one of the most compelling is the ‘the old boys’ club’…
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By Mehdi Farooq
December 18, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Equities | Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
December 18, 2019
Equity factor investors choose stocks based on certain attributes that generate consistently higher returns. Common ones include…
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By Thorsten Wegener
December 18, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Equities | Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
December 18, 2019
There is a new buzzword in town: ‘Gamma Flip’. It is used to explain (due to a lack of any sane explanation for current market behaviour) why the S&P seems stuck…
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By Bilal Hafeez
December 04, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Sustainability & Social Issues
December 04, 2019
One of the clearest effects of climate change is sea level rise (SLR). The scientific community expects a global average SLR of around 3-6 ft. over the next century…
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By Bilal Hafeez
December 03, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure | Equities
December 03, 2019
You’d think traders are so focused on making money they pay little attention to TV. But that’s not the conclusion of Joel Peress and Daniel Schmidt in…
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By Bilal Hafeez
December 02, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Business & Technology | Growth & Labour Market
December 02, 2019
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are eliciting much fear from society, especially considering the potential impact on the workplace…
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By Bilal Hafeez
November 20, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure
November 20, 2019
The talking heads on TV give such a convincing forecast it’s hard to doubt them sometimes. But try pinning them down to a specific time frame and discrete future event – now that’s next to impossible…
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By Bilal Hafeez
November 20, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Politics | Sustainability & Social Issues
November 20, 2019
Elites. They’re all over the news these days. But who are they and what do we know about them? An excellent new study…
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By Thorsten Wegener
November 20, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure
November 20, 2019
Occasionally you stumble across an article on the old ‘worldwide web sphere’ (to borrow a phrase from Gordon Brown) that helps you articulate something you already knew but needed spelling out…
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By Bilal Hafeez
November 06, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Credit | Rates
November 06, 2019
In any given country, government bonds are thought to be safer than corporate ones. After all, governments have the ability to tax or even print money…
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By Bilal Hafeez
November 06, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Rates
November 06, 2019
Investors often try to use flow and positioning data to forecast market returns, whether in bond, equity, or other asset markets…
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By Presiyana Karastoyanova
October 23, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Business & Technology | Growth & Labour Market
October 23, 2019
The private equity industry has come a long way since ‘Barbarians at the Gate’, the narrative of the rise and fall of one of the biggest leveraged buyouts…
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By Bilal Hafeez
October 23, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Business & Technology
October 23, 2019
Most of us think more about how to earn money than how to spend it. Implicit within this is the assumption that ‘the more money I earn, the…
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