Wall Street Currents

How Are Gender Lens Funds Performing? - Research demonstrates that stronger women in leadership (WIL) metrics correlate with superior company performance.

The Rise of Global Innovation by US Multinationals Poses Risks and Opportunities - For decades, US multinational corporations (MNCs) conducted nearly all their research and development (R&D) within the United States. Their focus on R&D at...

Just Released: New Regional Employment Data Now Available - Regional employment data provided by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) are a critically important tool used to track and assess local economic cond...

The individual consequences of occupational decline - As new technologies replace human labour in a growing number of tasks, employment in some occupations invariably falls. This column compares outcomes for s...

Dogs Of The Dow Update: As Of June 21, 2019 - With the first half of 2019 nearing an end, the Dogs of the Dow strategy is keeping pace with the Dow Jones Industrial Average Index. However, the Dow Dogs...

Hedged Equity May Help You Gain More by Losing Less - This chart illustrates the four largest market drops during drawdown periods* and how the 361 Global Long/Short Equity Fund captured less drawdown than t...

Ray Dalio Is Kinda, Sorta, Really Wrong, Part 3 - Two weeks ago I started a mini-series in the form of an open letter responding to a series of essays by Ray Dalio, the founder of Bridgewater Associates. I...

Exploring the Low Volatility Anomaly - What’s driving the continued rise of low volatility strategies globally? S&P DJI’s Tim Edwards and Craig Lazzara challenge conventional wisdom about risk a...

Meatless Future or Vegan Delusions? The Beyond Meat Valuation - In a big year for initial public offerings (IPOs), with Uber, Lyft, Pinterest and Zoom, to name just a few, already having gone public and more companies w...

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Modern Monetary Theory Makes Sense, Up to a Point - The term “modern monetary theory” has been talked about so much lately that we mainstream economists need to try to understand it. We’re having trouble, th...

The Case for Avoiding U.S. Stocks and Buying Asia Instead - CLSA strategist Christopher Woods lays out his views on Asian emerging markets and the potential Trump trade deal with China—and says why the U.S. is his l...

Elevate your discovery process to help win great clients - As an advisor, honing your skills in asking the deep discovery questions sets the tone for a superior client experience. These simple steps may help you bu...

Company Notes Digest 11.05.18 - 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...

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...

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...

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...