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Fixed Income in Emerging Markets: 2016 Bill of Health

Jason Voss, CFA, assesses three factors to understand the current bill of health for emerging market fixed-income investments.

New Era for Global Bonds: Everything You Know Is Wrong

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.

Kyle Bass on Japan’s Debt Crisis: This Is How It Falls Apart

Hayman Capital’s Kyle Bass sees Japan in “its final checkmate phase” at the end of a 70-year debt supercycle. Bass will be speaking at the 66th CFA Institute Annual Conference in Singapore.

Robert Merton: A New Approach for Macrofinancial Risks

Nobel laureate Robert C. Merton challenged traditional models used by investors to measure sovereign and financial system credit risk and instead proposes an alternative framework.

Europe’s Economy and the Way Forward

Economist Anatole Kaletsky downplays the real economic importance of Europe to the global economy and believes there is a chance that Germany might even leave the eurozone to ensure the euro’s survival as a currency.

Robert C. Merton Defends Quantitative Risk Analysis

Nobel Laureate Robert C. Merton, who will be speaking at the Fifth Annual CFA Institute European Investment Conference in Prague, sees a need for quantitative risk analysis in the future of finance.

Tomáš Sedláček on Using Economics to Minimize Debt

Economist and author Tomáš Sedláček, who will be speaking at the Fifth Annual CFA Institute European Investment Conference, feels that the goal of economic policy should be to minimize debt.

Critical Factors for Evaluating Sovereign Credit

Fitch Ratings' David Riley outlines the key questions his firm uses to evaluate sovereign debt.

Three Perspectives on Crisis Economics

A trio of accomplished monetary and fiscal policy experts will provide fresh insights on economic crisis management in Paris