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"Finance is being demonized, and it's being demonized because people don't understand it," Mihir A. Desai says. "If we want to stop demonization, we have to make it accessible."
Analyzing a client’s environment, their lifetime experiences, and even their genetic disposition for risk taking can lead to more reliable assessments of investor risk profiles and consequently better risk identification.
There is opportunity to exploit a gigantic demographic dividend — but it is accompanied by many avoidable threats and risks.
Over the past 20 years, from January 1992 to December 2012, China’s GDP per capita grew about 17 times and India’s GDP per capita grew about 4 or 5 times. These are astronomical increases.
Now,… READ MORE ›
With prospects for GDP brightening, it would be an easy mistake to get caught up in the excitement of a return to economic normalcy by pursuing ever-increasing equity valuations. After all, if markets did well throughout the Great Recession,… READ MORE ›
The prominent hedge fund manager, who believes that policymakers are simply shifting the day of reckoning into the future, updated his thesis on Japan.
If volatility is not a good measure of risk, what are the risks that actually matter? The founder and CIO of APS Asset Management outlines six.
“The Americans or the Chinese?” asks risk expert and chairman at Intelligence Capital Limited, Avinash Persaud, at the CFA Institute Middle East investment Conference.