Just what’s on the mind of some of the sharpest investment managers out there? We were lucky enough to have Mike Melissinos
Category: Education
14
Mar
2016
The Callan Periodic Table of Investment Returns
The idea is to teach you visually about diversification – with the eye hopefully able to see that no one asset class (color) is always at the top of bottom of the rankings.
15
Mar
2016
An Institutional Overview of Managed Futures
Hot off the strong performance of Managed Futures in 2016, Preqin has released their 10,000 foot look at Managed Futures and its ongoing relationship with institutional investors
21
Mar
2016
Think You’re Diversified? Crude Oil Has Other Ideas
It seems we’re all more correlated with the Oil markets than we might think.
24
Mar
2016
Commodity Markets in Contango
Here are the Contango/Backwardation curves of 9 Commodity Markets extending into 2017.
29
Mar
2016
The Looniness of the Canadian Loonie and Oil Sands
Many are blaming the Loonie’s downward move on crude oil’s recent drawdown, the largest drawdown in history.
30
Mar
2016
25 Questions Every Investor Should Know About Jaguar Investments Limited
Let’s face it, when you take the time to evaluate possible strategies for your long term portfolio plans (especially Alternative Investments) there are a lot of choices out there, and it’s not always easy to create a so called short list, or even make a choice when you have that said short list. Performance tends […]
01
Apr
2016
Q1 Asset Class Returns
The first question we had to ask ourselves after looking the returns in March was, “Are the asset classes becoming increasingly correlated?” Here’s what happened in March by the numbers:
05
Apr
2016
The Optimal Allocation to Managed Futures
Perhaps more telling than the snapshot as of December, is the best allocation percentage according to the efficient frontier each year going back most of a decade
25
Apr
2016
The World with Negative Interest Rates
Don’t look now, but almost 40% of the global bond markets have negative interest rates. Just what are negative interest rates and what does it mean for the average investor?
