By
Siddharth Latwal
February 19, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
February 19, 2020
Countless disclaimers tell us that “past performance is no guide to future performance”, but in mutual funds, many investors think it is. And not only…
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By
Manan Shah
February 19, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
FX
February 19, 2020
The FX markets are the largest financial markets in the world with an average daily trading volume of over $6 trillion. The trading volume in FX swaps…
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By
Stefan Posea
February 12, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Monetary Policy & Inflation | Rates
February 12, 2020
In the last two decades, central banks have significantly increased communication towards the public in the form of speeches, reports, press…
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By
Apurv Jain
Neil Seeman
February 05, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure
February 05, 2020
Imagine you are the CEO of a well-known asset management company. You are sitting in a meeting with a new data vendor, your new…
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By
Bilal Hafeez
February 03, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure | Sustainability & Social Issues
February 03, 2020
Scientific consensus has long been reached on a link between human activities and climate change. But now investors have taken notice, and…
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By
Mehdi Farooq
January 29, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Economics
January 29, 2020
Economics lags other social sciences, such as history, anthropology, and sociology, in understanding the ways narratives (stories) affect human actions…
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By
Saeed Amen
January 29, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Business & Technology
January 29, 2020
I’ve been a quant strategist in FX for nearly 15 years. At the start of my career, quant was somewhat of a niche area. Typically, most of my interactions…
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By
Stefan Posea
January 22, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Equities | Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
January 22, 2020
Safe assets have been all the rage since the financial crisis. They’re in high demand as collateral in repo transactions, for use to meet…
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By
Bilal Hafeez
January 22, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure | FX
January 22, 2020
While most markets like equities and bonds have well-established valuation models, FX markets often baffle people. What anchors the value of a currency?
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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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