Behavioral Finance
89 Posts
The cost of financial illiteracy is high. From distorted markets to mangled individual retirement plans, some of the consequences have become all too familiar for investment professionals. Can efforts to raise financial literacy change behaviors and promote better outcomes? The May/June issue of “CFA Institute Magazine” examines the scope and scale of financial illiteracy and initiatives designed to address the problem, including efforts by local CFA Institute member societies. Read more
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Corporate Finance
40 PostsRecent posts on rescaled range analysis inspired new research into the VIX. Read more
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Derivatives
36 PostsAfter the Great Recession, some quantitative finance watchers stated that the discipline wass dead. Yet, some practitioners, such as Attilio Meucci, are evolving new ways for coping with the real world’s complexities. Read more
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Economics
233 Posts
The prominent hedge fund manager, who believes that policymakers are simply shifting the day of reckoning into the future, updated his thesis on Japan. Read more
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Equity Investments
158 Posts
In the first quarter of 2013, institutional investors added to their equity holdings in the healthcare sector while reducing their exposure to the technology stocks. Among the most widely held stocks, portfolio managers as a group added to positions in Citigroup (C), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Microsoft (MSFT), and BlackRock (BLK), and trimmed positions in Apple (AAPL), Oracle (ORCL), Pfizer (PFE), and Coca-Cola (KO). Read more
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Fixed Income
87 Posts
It used to be that investors most feared interest rate risk in industrial countries and credit risk in emerging economies. The rules have changed, says Ramin Toloui, PIMCO’s global co-head of emerging markets portfolio management. Read more
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Investment Topics
3 Posts The prominent hedge fund manager, who believes that policymakers are simply shifting the day of reckoning into the future, updated his thesis on Japan. Read more
Leave a Comment The cost of financial illiteracy is high. From distorted markets to mangled individual retirement plans, some of the consequences have become all too familiar for investment professionals. Can efforts to raise financial literacy change behaviors and promote better outcomes? The May/June issue of “CFA Institute Magazine” examines the scope and scale of financial illiteracy and initiatives designed to address the problem, including efforts by local CFA Institute member societies. Read more
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Portfolio Management
251 Posts
The NYU professor applies a common-sense, mathematical approach to challenge general “rules of thumb” of valuation while still using accepted methodologies, such as the discounted cash flow model. Read more
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128 Posts The cost of financial illiteracy is high. From distorted markets to mangled individual retirement plans, some of the consequences have become all too familiar for investment professionals. Can efforts to raise financial literacy change behaviors and promote better outcomes? The May/June issue of “CFA Institute Magazine” examines the scope and scale of financial illiteracy and initiatives designed to address the problem, including efforts by local CFA Institute member societies. Read more
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Quantitative Methods
59 PostsOften financial analysts are presented with statistical charts that purport to demonstrate an important — and, of course, investable — relationship between data points. These charts are supposed to be worth a thousand words and thousands of shares traded. But invariably these charts do not have an r-squared for the data displayed, or any other descriptive statistical data; just the seductive image. Read more
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93 Posts
Lim Chow Kiat, CFA, group chief investment officer of the Government of Singapore Investment Corporation, tackled one of the most vexing questions in the investment world today: how to invest in a low-yield world. Read more
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Standards, Ethics & Regulations (SER)
104 Posts
Fung Global Institute President Andrew Sheng says the central challenge for financial reform is reining in the sector, which has grown too big. Read more
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6 PostsIs happiness at work important to you? I’m guessing the answer is yes. It probably is very important. After all, we spend so much of our life working. But after a weekend, do you feel excited about going to work … Read more
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