Practical analysis for investment professionals 
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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A mutual recognition platform enabling cross-border fund distribution between China and Hong Kong could become a game changer for the global fund management industry and usher in new competition for popular fund domicile jurisdictions like Luxembourg and Ireland. 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 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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“The Americans or the Chinese?” asks risk expert and chairman at Intelligence Capital Limited, Avinash Persaud, at the CFA Institute Middle East investment Conference. Read more
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David Kelly, CFA, chief global strategist at J.P. Morgan Funds, outlines three problems with the current Federal Reserve policy of zero interest rates and quantitative easing. Read more
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The Graham and Dodd Awards recognize excellence in financial writing and honor Benjamin Graham and David L. Dodd for their enduring contributions to the field of financial analysis. Read more
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This post uses long time scales of the S&P 500 as a test case for discussing the major tenets of rescaled range analysis, a favorite technique of fractal market analysis, chaos theoreticians, and some technical analysts. Read more
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