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
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
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
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
Presiyana Karastoyanova
September 25, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Economics
Investment Strategy
September 25, 2019
Investors Behave the Same When They Buy and Sell, Don’t They? There is ostensibly no reason why an investor’s skill would differ…
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…
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 11, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Business & Technology
Economics
Growth & Labour Market
September 11, 2019
Harvard economist Dani Rodrik was one of the earliest sceptics of globalisation. He’s best known for coining his ‘trilemma’ for the world economy, which he stated as:…
By
Bilal Hafeez
September 11, 2019
In: Deep Dives |
Commodities & Energy
Credit
Equities
Investment Strategy
Rates
September 11, 2019
The holy grail of financial market investing is to find investment or trading rules that consistently make money over time….
