Bassem I. Awadallah provides expert commentary on some of the findings of CFA Institute survey of investment professionals in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region. Read more
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With unprecedented changes in the foreign institutional investor quota and related rules, as well as the hint of further new policy moves by the government, the China A-Shares market is starting to attract investor interest once again. Read more
Leave a CommentVikram Mansharamani, a lecturer at Yale, discusses five lenses for identifying historical asset bubbles that then burst and provides examples of where his lenses point to a bubble (China) and where they don’t point to a bubble (food prices). Read more
Leave a CommentKent Osband offers that the mathematics of turbulence provides a mathematical framework for bridging modern portfolio theory’s rationalism with behavioral finance’s irrationalism. Read more
Leave a CommentRobert Johnston, director of the global energy and natural resources practice at Eurasia Group, addresses the prospects for the United States becoming a natural gas “superpower,” and the global geopolitical and investment implications of the US shale energy boom. Read more
Leave a CommentRodney Wilson, a well-known commentator on Islamic finance, shares his list of the best books on the topic. Read more
Leave a CommentJason Trennert of Strategas offers his sometimes contrarian outlook for equity markets while sharing insights on the European currency crisis and the prospects for inflation. Read more
Leave a CommentDavid Guin, a partner at Withers Bergman LLP, discusses the implications of the SEC’s new definition of family offices and explains what a good compliance policy should look like. Read more
Leave a CommentMike Zelouf, CFA, discusses fixed-income portfolio benchmarks. Specifically, he explains why market-cap-weighted bond indices may not be good benchmarks and why alternative benchmarks do not solve all problems. Read more
Leave a CommentThe CFA Society Czech Republic recently convened three experts, including Czech National Bank governor Miroslav Singer, to discuss prospects for the Czech economy, the eurozone, and lessons from the financial crisis. Read more
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