Our ten most-popular articles from the past year include coverage of the ever-unfolding European sovereign debt crisis, how the election cycle affects the markets, and Warren Buffett’s secret sauce. Read more
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Top posts from last month included articles on JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion loss, recent 13F filings, and the opportunities in frontier markets. Read more
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Critics of former U.S. Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan’s tenure at the Fed — there’s no shortage — may well consider his bullish call on stocks a contrary indicator. Read more
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How exactly does one “hedge” a book of commercial loans — JPMorgan’s traditional banking business — by writing protection on other companies’ paper, thereby gaining loss exposure to these other loans? Here’s why calling the trades complex, poorly monitored, and poorly understood is an understatement. Read more
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Could it be that the Holy Grail has been spotted at the recent Chicago Board Options Exchange (CBOE) Risk Management Conference? Well not quite, but there was much discussion about what I believe to be the most significant development of … Read more
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In the wake of the Great Recession, many alternatives to the traditional credit-rating agencies are being considered. Here is an overview. Read more
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While December is typically a quiet month in the world of finance and investing, last month had a surprising number of important stories. Concerns over the European sovereign debt crisis dominated the intellectual bandwidth, yet there were other stories deserving of the fixed income investor’s attention. Read more
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