Institutional Research
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Christina Alfonso Shows How Investors Drive Change
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Alfonso, co-founder and CEO of impact investment advisory firm Madeira
Global, talks about the changing face of investing in social good.
2 hours ago
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Russia Is in No Economic Shape to Fight a War
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Last Friday evening, the Russian Security Council met. In attendance were
12 men—almost all of whom are around 60 years old and who once worked in
the KG...
4 hours ago
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Hoisington Investment Management – Quarterly Review and Outlook, First
Quarter 2014
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In today’s Outside the Box, Lacy Hunt and Van Hoisington of Hoisington
Investment have the temerity to point out that since the Great Recession
officially ...
4 hours ago
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A President’s View of the Art of Negotiation
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[image: Jamil Mahuad]It isn't often that you get a chance to listen to a
former sitting president discuss the art of negotiation; and it is rarer
still tha...
12 hours ago
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Human capital and income inequality
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Most developing countries have made a great effort to eradicate illiteracy.
As a result, the inequality in the distribution of education has been
reduced b...
12 hours ago
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Investor Letter Spring 2014: The Weather Is To Blame
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As we noted in our fourth quarter Investor Letter, we cautioned investors
about looking at past returns and projecting those into the future. The
first qua...
19 hours ago
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Economic Indicators Dashboard – April 2014 update
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The Economic Indicators Dashboard is showing all indicators within
historical typical ranges. Learn more about one key indicator: Interest
rates.
22 hours ago
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Practice Essentials: Sukuk Liquidity Trends
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While global sukuk issuance declined by 13% in 2013, the liquidity of the
sukuk market, as tracked by the Dow Jones Sukuk Index, showed a slight
improvemen...
22 hours ago
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Another Mediocre Housing Data Point
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The National Association of Retailers released its existing home sales data
for March this morning. The number continued to confirm softness in
housing ...
23 hours ago
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Economix Meets the Gales of Change
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Economix is coming to an end, but it will be succeeded by The Upshot, a new
politics, policy and economics site.
1 day ago
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Top 10 Managed Futures Performers of March
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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...
1 day ago
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Housing Looking for Good Old Days
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Rising Home Prices are boosting property taxes while mortgage lenders may
be getting more generous. Bloomberg reports that property tax collections
are ris...
2 days ago
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A Better Way to Cut Power-Plant Emissions
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In pushing electric-power producers to curb carbon-dioxide emissions, the
Environmental Protection Agency should allow more time and set stricter
limits.
2 days ago
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A Gut-Wrencher of a Rotation…
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The post A Gut-Wrencher of a Rotation… appeared first on 361 Capital.
2 days ago
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Introduction to the Floating-Rate Note Treasury Security
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Ezechiel Copic, Luis Gonzalez, Caitlin Gorback, Blake Gwinn, and Ernst Schaumburg Introduction The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) auctioned its f...
2 days ago
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Last Week in VIX – 4/20/2014
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So earlier this weekend I posted a blog about VXST and the streak of twenty
higher closes for the CBOE Short-Term Volatility Index that comes after a
three...
2 days ago
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Rob Arnott: Demographics Are the Markets' 800-Pound Gorilla
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It's a big reason why the finance guru likes emerging markets long term.
3 days ago
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Is China Really Prepared to Shift to Market-Driven Interest Rates?
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Rate liberalization is vital to sustaining long-term growth but comes at a
big cost — rising defaults and a loosening of Beijing’s control.
3 days ago
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Investors Ignore Frightful Geopolitics
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By:
John Browne
Thursday, April 17, 2014
When the former Soviet Union collapsed almost 25 years ago, most global
strategic forecasters assumed tha...
6 days ago
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Technical Note - MSCI Prepayment Model Tuning Overlay - April 2014
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This Technical Note introduces the MSCI Tuning Overlay, a new feature
offered in RiskManager that allows users to select MSCI preset tuning
parameters fo...
1 week ago
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A Dangerous Knowledge Gap
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A Dangerous Knowledge Gap The Investment View From Prescott, Arizona Over
my 27 years in the business, I’ve learned that... [ Read More ]
1 week ago
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Investment Strategies for Reducing Fossil Fuel Exposure
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[image: jpg_msci_fossilfuelwebinar_424x342_wo.jpg]In response to the
350.org call for divestment, investors globally are taking a closer look at
the role...
1 week ago
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Meet "Lowflation": Deflation's Scary Pal
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By:
Peter Schiff
Friday, April 4, 2014
In recent years a good part of the monetary debate has become a simple war
of words, with much of the confli...
2 weeks ago
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The impossible quest for fair markets: Pokemon cards, HFT and Life lessons
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In my last post, I looked at the Insider Trading 2.0 doctrine advanced by
Eric Schneiderman, the Attorney General for New York, and argued that is
was over...
4 weeks ago
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Friday Fun: Read the Fine Print
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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...
8 months ago
