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28th September
Collateralized Loan Obligations in the Financial Accounts of the United States (Fed) Two new data series on CLOs have been introduced into US Financial accounts. The blog also describes how to navigate the tables to find these series and others relating to CLOs
Derivatives Trading in OTC Markets Soars (BIS) Latest triennial survey shows daily turnover in FX and rates derivatives has jumped from $11 trillion to 2016 to $19 trillion this year. The share of trading exchanges has also fallen.
Tracking the Sources of Robust Payments Growth: McKinsey Global Payments Report (McKinsey) Deep dive on payments landscape by region and player (including non-bank ones). Asia-Pac is the largest region by revenue.
Why Private Equity Is Ripe for Vanguard-Style Disruption (Institutional Investor) Argues that the average 7% fees for private equity is ripe for disruption. A Warren Buffet-style passive approach to holding private companies could be one path for this.
John C Williams: LIBOR – the Clock is Ticking (BIS) NY Fed President argues that market participants are not prepared enough for the end of LIBOR. Despite mentioning recent repo turmoil, he didn’t draw any connections between LIBOR reform and repo (there are some linkages)
20th September
Two great papers – one on modelling retail sales in almost real time and another on imperfect decision making.
From Transactions Data to Economic Statistics: Constructing Real-time, High-frequency, Geographic Measures of Consumer Spending (Federal Reserve) They find that daily retail transaction data from First Data Merchant Services can replicate monthly official retail sales data in almost real-time.
Modeling Imprecision in Perception, Valuation and Choice (Columbia, Michael Woodford) A piece on imprecise decision. It gives a summary of psychophysics which models the relationship between objective physical properties of a person’s environment and the way these are subjectively perceived.
13th September
Entrepreneurial Personalities (VOX) Finds that entrepreneurs have a higher tolerance for risk, stronger self-belief, sense of controlling one’s destiny and need for achievement than nono-founding CEOs, inventor employees and other employees.
New Index Tracks Trade Uncertainty Across the Globe (IMF) The Fund creates trade uncertainty indices for 143 countries starting in 1996.
Why We Should Care About Economic Uncertainty (Econlife) Describes some uncertainty indices and where to find them. They do impact growth.
Puzzling Exchange Rate Dynamics and Delayed Portfolio Adjustment (VOX) In theory, FX carry trades shouldn’t make money, so many ideas have emerged to explain this puzzle. This column argues that the slow response of investors to interest rate changes is the answer.
6th September
Predicting Returns with Text Data (Ke, Kelly, Xiu, working paper) Outlines single stock trading strategy around text-mining newswires. The daily models deliver sharpe ratio of between and 1 and 2 (after t-costs). Impressive stats.
Replacing LIBOR (Money and Banking, 8 min read) LIBOR will cease at the end of 2021. This piece raises concerns around the lack of clarity around how many contracts referencing LIBOR have fallback language for the switch. Could pose a systemic risk at some point.
3 Shockers from Yesterday’s RPI Plans (M&G investments, 2 min read) UK inflation-linked bonds will soon RPI inflation measure to the CPI measure. Biggest shocker is that linkers maturing beyond 2030 are at risk of having RPI calculations changed at the discretion of statisticians not the Chancellor.
Satellite Data Economics, Night Lights, and More (Conversable Economist, 3 min read) Useful blog that touches on and contains references on how satellite data can be used to measure growth.
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