Institutional Research
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Weekend Review of VIX Futures and Options – 7/23/2017
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VIX closed Friday a tad shy of an all-time low while the S&P 500 continues
to push higher having gained just over ½ a percent last week. The curve
below d...
14 hours ago
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Agglomeration benefits versus firm selection
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The large literature on agglomeration economies attests to the higher
average productivity of firms in larger cities. However, this literature
focuses on p...
1 day ago
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Strong Earnings Growth And Favorable Valuations Lead To Weak Stock Returns
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One factor utilized in uncovering potential investment opportunities is to
evaluate companies and sectors that are projected to generate strong
earnings an...
1 day ago
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Three Black Swans
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“The world in which we live has an increasing number of feedback loops,
causing events to be the cause of more events (say, people buy a book
because other...
1 day ago
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Sassan Ghahramani: Trading the Global Repricing
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The CEO of SGH Macro Advisors discusses the efforts of central banks to
renormalize after the financial crisis.
1 day ago
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Weekend Reads: Is Artificial Intelligence Biased?
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Today’s infographic from explains the major differences between NYSE and
the Nasdaq What is the Difference Between the NYSE and Nasdaq? – (Visual
Capitalis...
2 days ago
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Would You Invest with Steven Cohen?
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Owing to his former firm’s regulatory troubles, the legendary founder of
now-defunct SAC Capital Advisors may have to rely on a network of rich
hedge fund ...
2 days ago
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North Korea Wants Tourism
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Tourism in North Korea is back in the spotlight after Otto Warmbier’s death
and the continued push to cut cash flows to the Kim regime. But for those
still...
2 days ago
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Weekend Reads from India: Mental Accounts and an Exploding Middle Class
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Retail investors, with their varied illusions about wealth, are the weakest
link in the financial services ecosystem, Shreenivas Kunte, CFA, observes.
2 days ago
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Earnings Call Digest 7.20.17
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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...
3 days ago
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The four fatal assumptions we’ve heard in 20 years of practice management
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Avoid falling prey to four of the most shortsighted assumptions many
advisors make—and which we believe prohibit them from reaching their full
potential.
3 days ago
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The Fed May Show Trump No Love
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Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on
developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the
writ...
3 days ago
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Online Teaching: Promise, Pitfalls and Potential!
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I am a teacher. That is how I describe myself to anyone who chooses to ask
me what I do for a living. I am not a professor (sounds pedantic and
pompous), d...
3 days ago
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Looking Beyond Traditional Benchmarks to Add Value in Emerging Markets
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As emerging markets have grown in size and importance, emerging market
equities have become a core part of many portfolio allocations.
3 days ago
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Just more of the same…
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July 17, 2017 Just more of the same… Last week was a reflection of the past
few months: 1) Comments from the Fed heads that they want to tighten, but…
2)...
6 days ago
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Why Do Cities Become Unaffordable?
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NEW HAVEN – Inequality is usually measured by comparing incomes across
households within a country. But there is also a different kind of
inequality: in th...
6 days ago
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The EU and Japan Move Closer
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Our weekly commentaries provide Euro Pacific Capital's latest thinking on
developments in the global marketplace. Opinions expressed are those of the
writ...
1 week ago
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How the Fed Changes the Size of Its Balance Sheet: The Case of Mortgage-Backed Securities
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In our previous post, we considered balance sheet mechanics related to the
Federal Reserve’s purchase and redemption of Treasury securities. These
mechanic...
1 week ago
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Franklin Parker Wins 2017 NAAIM Founders Award
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2017 NAAIM Founders Award Winner Franklin Parker Shows How Using Active
Allocation is the Best Way to Achieve Your Goals... [ Read More ]
3 months ago
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Robots Expose Firms to Compliance Risks
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Pressure to cut costs by replacing humans with robots may end up hurting
firms if they’re not careful, PwC says.
3 months ago
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Home Equity Wealth Makes a Comeback
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Home prices have risen significantly throughout the nation since the trough
in the housing cycle. Through August 2016, the S&P CoreLogic Case-Shiller
Home...
8 months ago
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MSCI Risk Monitor: RiskMetrics Europe - October 2015
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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...
1 year ago
