Weekend Reads: Eliminating “Sell By” Dates
But those are mostly wants. When it comes to needs, it’s a different story. Housing, even after the 2008-09 crack-up, is expensive. Rentals have gone straight up as home ownership has fallen. The costs of education have skyrocketed and show no signs of slowing. Medical and health-insurance costs are among the fastest-rising of all consumer […]
Alternative Links: 8th Richest Man
After becoming the world’s eighth-richest man at his peak in early 2012, the Brazilian tycoon lost $35 billion in a single year as his commodities empire collapsed.
Weekend Reads: Treasury Price Differences
For example, a number of hedge funds will seek to exploit differences in the price of cash Treasuries and equivalent futures. That could explain large futures selling to coincide with buying cash securities — the net position is flat but it appears in the data as a short position. Hedge funds and asset managers take […]
Alternative Links: FXCM Banned
FXCM has been banned from operating in the U.S. after the Commodity Futures Trading Commission found the retail currency broker had an undisclosed interest in the market maker that consistently “won” the largest share of FXCM’s trading volume – and thus was taking positions opposite its retail customers. FXCM banned by CFTC after taking positions […]
Weekend Reads: Under-Allocated to CTAs
I think people are under-allocated to CTAs. It’s a good way of getting the (risk mitigating) medicine to the patient . . . But investors are return chasers and last year was not a good year,” he says. Trend-following funds need to find their footing in 2017 – (FT) In the decade after Ed thorp launched Princeton Newport […]
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