Top posts from last month included a network analysis of Bloomberg’s Twitter a-list, dire warnings about the Fed’s policies from James G. Rickards, and discussions about alternatives to fiat money. Read more
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Mike 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
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The chief investment officer at the Bass Family Office says that the expected quality of a hedge fund manager is a function of additional return, minimal volatility, a bias toward positive returns, and less big blow ups. Read more
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Events on the Korean peninsula have been unfolding quickly. Is North Korea’s latest sabre-rattling truly an investment risk? Or for those with a longer time horizon, is it a buying opportunity? Read more
Leave a CommentAfter the Great Recession investors are still searching for answers on how to best examine and understand bank credit quality. Invictus Group’s CEO Kamal Mustafa, a penultimate insider’s outsider, offers not just perspective on the problem but genuine solutions. Read more
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Bloomberg recently announced that it had become the first financial information platform to integrate real-time Twitter feeds “directly into the investment workflows of market professionals.” A network analysis of a partial list of Twitter accounts included in the terminal service yields some interesting insights. Read more
11 CommentsSaker Nusseibeh questions the basics of today’s investment practice and draws unique parallels to medieval alchemists and the Stone Age. Read more
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At the recent CFA Institute Global Investment Risk Symposium, Ron Ryan, CFA, of Ryan ALM, appealed for greater transparency and the application of commonsense principles in pension accounting, warning that without such changes the solvency of corporations, cities, and states is at stake. Read more
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Some of the top articles from last month ask whether technical analysis can boost returns, what the next 20 years have in store for private wealth, and how well the stock market discounts. Read more
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Predictions of the disintegration of the “European experiment” have yet to be fulfilled despite more than 1,000 days having passed since the eurozone crisis first began. Investors owe it to themselves to consider alternate scenarios. Read more
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