Wall Street Currents

For Digicel’s Denis O’Brien, Mobile + Philanthropy = Real Wealth - The Irish entrepreneur is spending heavily to develop his mobile network in the Caribbean and Pacific — and to give back to the community.

Evaluating Private Equity Performance: PME vs. Direct Alpha - [image: Evaluating Private Equity Performance: PME vs. Direct Alpha]A new technique called direct alpha may overcome key problems with some typically used ...

The head and the heart of retirement planning - A rewarding retirement requires disciplined preparation. Help your clients prepare for the emotional aspects of the transition, too – not just the financia...

The Errors of Conservatives Obscure the Case for Trade - Twenty years after Bill Clinton, former US president, signed the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), its very name chills the spines of US voter...

Top Ten Managed Futures Performers of June - While one month’s performance is no way to judge an investment that has 3 to 5 year cycles, a glance at who’s doing well in the different environments mont...

Long-term damage of the US court’s Argentinian debt ruling - The US court ruling forcing Argentina to pay its hold-out creditors has big implications. This column argues that some of them are particularly worrying. T...

The Volatility Conundrum: Is It Lowest Before a Storm? - The recovery, regulatory reform and geopolitics may be suppressing financial volatility, but many traders fear a sharp rebound.

Geopolitical issues moved to front and center stage… - The post Geopolitical issues moved to front and center stage… appeared first on 361 Capital.

Becoming More Alike? Comparing Bank and Federal Reserve Stress Test Results - Stress tests have become an important method of assessing whether financial institutions have enough capital to operate in bad economic conditions.

Week Ahead Magazine: July 20, 2014 - This past week was an event filled one as geopolitical concerns rose to the top of investor worries with issues in Ukraine. As Josh Brown noted in an artic...

VXST Last Week – 7/20/2014 - On Thursday VXST ran up from 10.26 to 16.23. I’ll catch some flak for this next sentence, but I’m pretty much resigned to always getting flak as long as I ...

GDP: A Brief But Affectionate History - “Measurement theory shows that strong assumptions are required for certain statistics to provide meaningful information about reality. Measurement theory e...

A Clearer Window Into Hedge Funds - Better transparency and information, plus event-driven strategies, have helped SkyBridge Capital's results.

Company Notes Digest 7.18.14 - A digest of some of the top insights that I’ve gathered from this week’s earnings calls. Full notes can be found here. The Macro Outlook […] The post Co...

US Foreclosures drop 2% in June to Lowest Level Since June 2006 - RealtyTrac® released its Midyear 2014 U.S. Foreclosure Market Report™ on July 17th, which shows a total of 613,874 U.S. properties with foreclosure filing...

Possible, Plausible and Probable: Big markets and Networking effects - I do not know Bill Gurley personally, but I do know of him, and I was surprised, sitting in Vienna airport waiting for a connection home on Friday morning,...

The Growing Use of MSCI's RiskMetrics RiskManager in the APAC Broker-Dealer Market - The Asia-Pacific (APAC) broker-dealer market has seen a significant transformation over the past ten years. With the liberization of markets has ...

Market Spin Cycle - The Rotation Continues... - In "Market Spin-cycle: Uncovering Style and Sector Rotation in a Flat Market", we investigated the sector and investment style rotations in the US market ...

Are The Bears Coming Out of Hibernation? - Stocks open Thursday with the largest down opening in some time due to Portuguese bank problems, slowing Eurozone concerns and... [ Read More ]

Sector Distribution of the High Quality Portfolio and its Performance in Different Market Environment - Understanding the sector distribution

Time To Do Less Not More - By: John Browne Friday, June 27, 2014 The current situation in Iraq is a modern tragedy. But in more practical terms it is a very stark illustrati...

The Bond Trap - By: Peter Schiff Monday, June 23, 2014 The American financial establishment has an incredible ability to celebrate the inconsequential while ignor...

Good Poker Players Aren't Lucky - An Idaho court rules that poker is a game of skill, not a game of chance like craps or roulette. If card players are lucky, maybe the Justice Department wi...

Economix Meets the Gales of Change - Economix is coming to an end, but it will be succeeded by The Upshot, a new politics, policy and economics site.

Friday Fun: Read the Fine Print - A Russian man didn’t like the terms offered to him by a local credit card company, so he took it upon himself to make them more favorable: But instead of r...