Wall Street Currents

Analysis of the proposal “A constructive approach to euro area reform” - There is currently both an economic and a political window of opportunity for reform in the euro area. This column, which forms part of VoxEU's Euro Area R...

Central Bank Independence Revisited - Ed Balls, research fellow at Harvard’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business & Government (M-RCBG), and his coauthor, Anna Stansbury, will present the updat...

Portfolio Concentration: How Much Is Optimal? - Diversification is sometimes described as “the only free lunch” in investing. But is it?

Just Released: The New York Fed Staff Forecast—April 2018 - Today, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York is hosting the spring meeting of its Economic Advisory Panel (EAP). As has become the custom at this meeting, t...

China Plays It Cool - Photo: Getty Images China is the world economy’s elephant in the room. We can’t possibly ignore it, yet many try anyway. Admitting China’s influence forces...

Alphabet Soup: Google is Alpha, but where are the Bets? - In my last two posts, I looked first at the turn in the market against the FANG stocks, largely precipitated by the Facebook user data fiasco and then at t...

Arthur Laffer Talks Taxes and Kudlow - The economist best known for a curve drawn on a restaurant napkin finds his ideas still reverberating in Republican policies and platforms.

Why practice management is not enough. And why it’s time to transition. - We believe practice management programs require a significant shift in focus to further drive advisor success. Here’s how we plan to do it.

Three Alternative Funds Walk into a Bar - The concept here is easy to understand – that a cheaper price tag doesn’t mean you’re getting the cheaper price. Turns out, when buying milk or just about ...

Fear and Loathing in D.C. - April 16, 2018 Only a fully loaded Hunter S. Thompson could write a more outrageous political drama. Beyond the reality of tariffs and trade wars, the bo...

Dividend And Stock Buyback Growth Potentially Accelerate In 2018 - Near the end of last month S&P Dow Jones Indices reported preliminary dividend and buyback activity for the S&P 500 Index for the fourth quarter of last ye...

Brackets and Defense – LOVOL and VXTH Indexes (that Bought VIX Calls) Had Lower Volatility - Over the past two months, there has been increased interest in (1) portfolio protection strategies (2) learning more about prudent uses of VIX® futures and...

The Trump Boom Is Making It Harder to See the Next Recession - When big shifts like recessions are on the way, economists just aren’t very good at predicting them. The truth is that we really can’t foresee where the ec...

Trump Plays with Fire on Trade - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

2017 Year in Review - This will be our last full post for 2017, so we decided to do a year end wrap-up. The work below draws from all of the posts that we made this year and us...

Science-Based Targets: How Aligning Carbon Reduction Targets With Climate Science Can Drive Business Growth - Science-based targets (SBTs) are environmental performance targets that are set to align business objectives with scientific evidence on the planet’s abili...

Home Equity Wealth at New High - The latest flow-of-funds data from the Federal Reserve confirmed that home-equity wealth reached a new nominal high this year: $13.9 trillion at mid-2017,...

Former Morgan Stanley Executive to Expand Rockefeller Capital Management - Gregory Fleming, formerly with Morgan Stanley, will expand Rockefeller Capital Management’s asset and wealth management businesses.

A New Challenge to the Dollar - Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the writ...

Econophysics of Business Cycles: Aggregate Economic Fluctuations, Mean Risks and Mean Square Risks (arxiv.org) -

Franklin Parker Wins 2017 NAAIM Founders Award - 2017 NAAIM Founders Award Winner Franklin Parker Shows How Using Active Allocation is the Best Way to Achieve Your Goals... [ Read More ]

Robots Expose Firms to Compliance Risks - Pressure to cut costs by replacing humans with robots may end up hurting firms if they’re not careful, PwC says.

MSCI Risk Monitor: RiskMetrics Europe - October 2015 - Under a standard RiskMetrics forecasting model, this monthly Risk Monitor reports on the evolution of risk forecasts for 12 key risk factors chosen for t...