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…
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…
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…
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…
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?
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…
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…
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…
By
Bilal Hafeez
January 09, 2020
In: Deep Dives |
Data, Models & Market Infrastructure | Geopolitics | Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
January 09, 2020
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?…
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’…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By
Thorsten Wegener
October 09, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Credit | Equities | FX | Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation | Rates
October 09, 2019
The Eye of Horus was a symbol used to protect pharaoh in the afterlife and to ward off evil. Exchange ‘afterlife’ with…
By
Bilal Hafeez
October 09, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Equities | Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
October 09, 2019
Economists like Keynes, Minsky, and Kindleberger have highlighted the importance of shifting perceptions of risk in driving markets and the economy. When…
By
Bilal Hafeez
October 09, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
FX | Growth & Labour Market | Investment Strategy & Asset Allocation
October 09, 2019
Currency markets often confound investors. Unlike equities or bonds, they are a long-short market, so if you buy one currency – say…
By
Cheryl Liu
September 25, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Economics | Growth & Labour Market | US
September 25, 2019
For government agencies and economic policymakers, assessing the performance of the labour market significantly aids their decision making. Every post-war recession in…
By
Bilal Hafeez
September 25, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
China & Hong Kong | Economics | Growth & Labour Market
September 25, 2019
Scepticism has always surrounded Chinese growth data, especially its GDP statistics. The data is released extremely quickly after the end of a…
