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Swiss Equity Market and Interest Rates since 2009
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Hinder Asset Management, Newsletter No 67, August 2019
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A living artifact from the Dutch Golden Age:
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Yale’s 367-year-old water bond still pays interest
Yale News, September 22, 2015 , Mike Cummings
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Gold Is Money. Everything Else Is credit.
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"An “expensive” cash favors the rentier at the expense of the entrepreneur, and vice versa.
The consequence is the emergence of a two-fold competition across major economic and monetary zones, on the cash side and on the equity risk side."
Gavekal Intelligence Software, The Quant Corner, September 2019 , Didier Darcet
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Thoughts on Yield Curve Inversion
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Why an inverted yield curve isn’t a hair trigger for stocks.
Fisher Investments MarketMinder, 08/26/2019 , Luke Puetz
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Quick Hit: Digging Into US and European Returns
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A look at recent market returns on a geographical basis—and how sector weights may skew your view of them.
Fisher Investments MarketMinder, 07/17/2019 , Editorial Staff
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The quest for ‘uncorrelated’ returns. The fall (and rise?) of absolute return funds
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The quest for uncorrelated returns can be an expensive pursuit, especially in terms of opportunity cost.
M&G Investments, Episode, 11 June 2019 , Stuart Canning
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The Big Bang: Indexing China’s Onshore Bond Market
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"Bond portfolio inflows are likely to be a critical funding source for China’s potential current account deficit, with both foreign private and reserve investors poised to raise exposure to China’s onshore bond market. By changing the composition of some of the bond market’s preeminent indices, there will be implications for bond investors, rates, and currencies."
Brandywine Global, Around the Curve, May 28 2019 , Tracy Chen, CFA, CAIA
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Don’t Speak Fedspeak
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The Fed’s words are just that—not actions—and its words are squishy. Two other words many Fed observers love to cite as gospel: “data dependent.” As in, the Fed’s monetary policy will be “data dependent.”
Fisher Investments MarketMinder, 05/15/2019 , Editorial Staff
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Investors' Personality Influences Investment Decisions: Experimental Evidence on Extraversion and Neuroticism
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"The authors find that extraversion and neuroticism significantly influence individuals' behavior in the experimental asset market."
Journal of Behavioral Finance, Volume 19, 2018 - Issue 1 , Andreas Oehler, Stefan Wendt, Florian Wedlich & Matthias Horn
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Investors and the French Revolution
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"Few people realize how active the Paris stock market was during the 1700s. The Paris stock exchange was founded on September 24, 1724, though shares in the French East India Co. (Compagnie des Indes) had traded in Paris for years."
Global Financial Data, 17 April 2019 , Dr. Brian Taylor
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