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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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Reflections on the timelessness of happiness and the oddballs of life
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"The link between time and happiness has always been something I found fascinating. Long before grasping the physics of time and space, I was lucky to be exposed to the idea that time represents a subjective state specifically associated with changes in mental stimuli."
Fathom Consulting, Thank Fathom it's Friday, 3 May 2019 , Andrea Zazzarelli
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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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The Federal Reserve Has an Inflation Problem
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The Federal Reserve (Fed) has an inflation problem. The central bank is not generating enough of it. As a result, market and consumer inflation expectations are plumbing new lows.
Brandywine Global, Around the Curve, May 6 2019 , Alberto J. Boquin, CFA
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Payrolls Like GDP: Headlines Good, Underneath Really, Really Not
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If the unemployment rate reaches zero and wages still don’t explode higher, the economy falls off, will Economists, central bankers, and the media stop relying on this one statistic for overall economic interpretation?
Alhambra Investment Partners, May 3rd, 2019 , Jeffrey P. Snider
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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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Archetypes as Triggers of Financial Bubbles
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"The author aims to demonstrate the workings of archetypes and proposes a measurement methodology designed to capture the subliminal forces that influence investment decisions."
Journal of Behavioral Finance, Volume 18, 2017 - Issue 1 , Niklas Hageback
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750 Years of Interest Rates
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"With these two charts, you can see how unusual the current decline in interest rates is, pushing yields down to levels that hadn’t been reached during the past seven centuries."
Global Financial Data, 3 March 2019 , Dr. Brian Taylor
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