Interest rates
Omar Selim uses self-learning quant models and big data to perform ESG analysis, and he explained to other investment professionals why they would soon need to do the same.
Antti Ilmanen, a principal at AQR Capital Management, says everything is expensive because interest rates are at all-time lows.
Not surprisingly, the 2008–2009 global financial crisis sent many financial professionals looking to history for a sense of appropriate context and perspective to understand the magnitude of such a catastrophic financial shock. This, in turn, sparked a general interest in financial history, but with few professional sources to turn to. At the 2014 Middle East Investment Conference, professor Adrian Bell, head of the ICMA Centre at the University of Reading's Henley Business School considered the question of whether or not modern finance existed in the Middle Ages.
Economic observers and money managers have faced a confusing environment since last summer, when then-Chairman Ben Bernanke shook the complacency of the market and signaled a tightening.
Markets are made at the margin, and in this case the tightening,… READ MORE ›
Adrian Bell’s research has found systemic risks and financial crises dating back to medieval Europe.
Retail investors are currently pouring money into “bank loan” funds at a record rate, and the longer term implications are cringe worthy.
The popularity and rationale for investor interest has some merits, but only on the surface. The reasoning… READ MORE ›
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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.
Monday morning on CNBC, TrimTabs CEO Charles Biderman noted that “the Fed’s balance sheet is up a few trillion, and the equity market caps are up a few trillion. To me, there’s nothing else that’s going on.” The popular… READ MORE ›