Mark K. Bhasin, CFA

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Mark K. Bhasin, CFA, is senior vice president of Basis Investment Group, LLC, New York City.

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17 May 2013

Book Review: The Hour between Dog and Wolf: Risk Taking, Gut Feelings, and the Biology of Boom and Bust

By Mark K. Bhasin, CFA

John Coates, senior research fellow in neuroscience and finance at the University of Cambridge, offers a number of fascinating lessons from a booming new field, the biology of risk, revealing how risk taking and stress transform our body chemistry and drive us to irrational exuberance or pessimism. When such chemical surges overwhelm traders and investors, they tend to suffer either euphoric overconfidence or extreme timidity.

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FlexShares launches 3 low-volatility ETFs

Northern Trust's FlexShares has brought to the New York Stock Exchange three exchange-traded funds aimed at delivering low volatility. The FlexShares US Quality Low Volatility Index Fund, the FlexShares Developed Markets ex-US Quality Low Volatility Index Fund and the FlexShares Emerging Markets Quality Low Volatility Index Fund buy stocks of companies that have been screened for high cash flow, management quality and profitability. ETF (17 Jul.)

Fed liquidity plan opposed by offshore banks with US units

Canadian, European and Japanese banking groups have criticized a proposal by the Federal Reserve to impose liquidity standards on foreign banks' US branches. The groups say "all capital and liquidity would become ring-fenced and fragmented along geographic lines" if other jurisdictions were to follow suit. MLex (subscription required) (17 Jul.)

How 4 EU national regulators approach enforcement

Enforcement by national financial regulators varies significantly among EU states. Practice Insight reviews practices in four major jurisdictions: France, Germany, the Netherlands and the UK. Practice Insight (17 Jul.)

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