By
Presiyana Karastoyanova,
06/11/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation, Sustainability & Social Issues
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,
06/11/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Credit, Rates
In any given country, government bonds are thought to be safer than corporate ones. After all, governments have the…
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By
Bilal Hafeez,
06/11/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Rates
Investors often try to use flow and positioning data to forecast market returns, whether in bond, equity, or other asset markets. The challenge is
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By
Presiyana Karastoyanova,
23/10/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Business & Technology, Growth & Labour Market
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,
23/10/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Business & Technology
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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By
Bilal Hafeez,
23/10/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure, Geopolitics, Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
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By
Thorsten Wegener,
09/10/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Credit, Equities, FX, Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation, Rates
The Eye of Horus was a symbol used to protect pharaoh in the afterlife and to ward off evil. Exchange ‘afterlife’ with…
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By
Bilal Hafeez,
09/10/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Equities, Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
Economists like Keynes, Minsky, and Kindleberger have highlighted the importance of shifting perceptions of risk in driving markets and the economy. When…
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By
Bilal Hafeez,
09/10/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
FX, Growth & Labour Market, Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
Currency markets often confound investors. Unlike equities or bonds, they are a long-short market, so if you buy one currency – say…
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By
Presiyana Karastoyanova,
25/09/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Economics, Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
Investors Behave the Same When They Buy and Sell, Don’t They? There is ostensibly no reason why an investor’s skill would differ…
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By
Bilal Hafeez,
25/09/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
China & Hong Kong, Economics, Growth & Labour Market
Scepticism has always surrounded Chinese growth data, especially its GDP statistics. The data is released extremely quickly after the end of a…
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By
Cheryl Liu,
25/09/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Economics, Growth & Labour Market, US
For government agencies and economic policymakers, assessing the performance of the labour market significantly aids their decision making. Every post-war recession in…
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By
Bilal Hafeez,
11/09/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Business & Technology, Economics, Growth & Labour Market
Dani Rodrick. Straight Talk on Trade: Ideas for a Sane World Economy (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018), 336pp. Reviewed by Bilal…
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By
Bilal Hafeez,
11/09/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Commodities & Energy, Credit, Equities, Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation, Rates
The holy grail of financial market investing is to find investment or trading rules that consistently make money over time. And while…
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By
Thorsten Wegener,
11/09/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Equities
With the S&P 500 and almost every other major index at critical junctures, loading up on gamma could be a smart move.…
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By
Bilal Hafeez,
21/05/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Credit, Data, Models & Market Infrastructure
Give Credit Where Credit Is Due: What Explains Corporate Bond Returns? AQR paper finds finds that options markets explain a great deal…
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By
Bilal Hafeez,
21/05/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Economics, Monetary Policy & Inflation, US
The Risk of Returning to the Zero Lower Bound San Fran Fed writes “that there currently appears to be a low risk of…
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By
Bilal Hafeez,
21/05/2019 | In: Deep Dives |
Economics, Europe, Monetary Policy & Inflation
Negative interest rates, excess liquidity and retail deposits: banks’ reaction to unconventional monetary policy in the euro area ECB finds that negative…
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