Wall Street Currents

Underemployment in the US and Europe - The most widely available measure of underemployment is the share of involuntary part-time workers in total employment. This column argues that this does n...

Easy Money, Uneasy Finance: On the Relationship between Monetary Policy and Financial Stability - Klaas Knot, president of De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), will discuss the vulnerabilities in the global financial system and the importance of financial stabi...

Liquid Alternatives: Alternative Enough? - How do liquid alternatives perform from a risk-and-return perspective in the context of an equity portfolio?

TPG Cracks the Code for Impact Investing - TPG Growth boss Bill McGlashan launched the Rise fund with Bono and others. How they measure the impact multiple of money

Amazon and Apple at a Trillion $: A Follow-up on Uncertainty and Catalysts! - In my last post, I looked at Apple and Amazon, as their market caps exceeded a trillion dollars, tracing the journey that they took over the last two decad...

China for the Trade Win? - With all the trade war talk, we all ask the obvious question: Who will win? President Trump says the US will win. Chinese business leaders say no, we will ...

Fall Checklist AND Stoplist - Checklists are excellent tools for delivering results and optimizing your team’s time. Stoplists are even better for providing focus and helping your team ...

Just Another Brick in the Wall… - September 17, 2018 As U.S. and China trade talks continue to dissolve, the barrier to rising global growth gets taller and longer. Last week, President T...

Instilling Fear In Investors Via Charts - In the mid 1990's famed investor Peter Lynch stated, "Far more money has been lost by investors in preparing for corrections, or anticipating corrections, ...

Do You Know How Your Treasury Trades Are Cleared and Settled? - The Treasury Market Practices Group (TMPG) recently released a consultative white paper on clearing and settlement processes for secondary market trades of...

Company Notes Digest 8.26.18 - Each week we read dozens of transcripts from earnings calls and presentations as part of our investment process. Below is a weekly post which contains some...

The Economy Grew Even Faster in Truman’s Presidency. So What? - Based solely on a few headline numbers, the American economy looks good. But it would be a mistake to read too much into the data — or to give too much cre...

VIX + Quants - The perception out there is that VIX traders are typically cowboys—swinging for the fences a la Mr. 50 cent or turning a small stake into millions like the...

Tulane University Professors Win the 2018 NAAIM Founders Award and $5,000 - Littleton, CO – May 7, 2018 – Professors Shuoyuan He and Gans Narayanamoorthy of Tulane University in New Orleans, LA,... [ Read More ]

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...

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...

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) -

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...