EUROPE’S ENERGY CRISIS IS KEEPING ENERGY PRICES AND INFLATION HIGH
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Bloomberg Businessweek Offers a View on Hedge Funds
Bloomberg Businessweek, July 2013 Simon Lack, December 2011 Obviously, I was too kind. What does the hedge fund industry’s chief lobbying group AIMA (Alternative Investment Managers Association) have to say?
Where Next for Interest Rates?
Fixed income managers have recently had to practice a rarely used skill; explaining poor investment performance to their clients. Bonds have been a great investment for a long time, but Fed Chairman Bernanke’s press conference last month has at least introduced two-way risk into the market. Quite possibly, he heralded the end of the secular […]
Bonds Still Aren't Cheap
It’s a long time since we had a bear market in bonds. Some may remember 1994, when Greenspan shocked the market from its complacency with a series of hikes in the Fed Funds rate. Events culminated that year with the bankruptcy of Orange County due to ill-advised bets on continued low rates by its treasurer […]
Buying Emerging Markets From Home
Investing in emerging markets has become de rigeur for equity investors in recent years. If you like stocks, goes the argument, how could you not like stocks in countries where growth is fastest? It’s probably fair to say that investing today with the objective of avoiding emerging markets is a more controversial approach than including […]
Les Luddites
France’s culture minister has criticized Amazon for undercutting rivals and being a “destroyer of bookshops”. Curiously, Aurelie Filippetti went on to claim that “Everyone has had enough of Amazon” although if French subjects weren’t such active customers Mme Filippetti would have to concern herself with less weighty matters. No doubt online sales have greatly challenged traditional, brick […]