Today’s infographic from explains the major differences between NYSE and the Nasdaq What is the Difference Between the NYSE and Nasdaq? – (Visual Capitalist) How it works: The client buys a private-placement life-insurance policy. The insurance company invests in alternative assets such as hedge funds. Profits, if any, would ordinarily be taxed as capital gains, […]
Category: Why Alternatives?
12
Jul
2017
Alternative Links: Regtech
Now, the software giant has announced the launch of three new Watson-powered regtech solutions for financial institutions (FIs). Watson was trained by IBM subsidiary Promontory’s risk management and compliance experts to understand and interpret regulatory language. All three solutions are now available on the IBM Cloud.
12
Jul
2017
Why Everyone’s Trading Volatility
The evidence keeps mounting that more and more investors are trading the VIX these days, now seeing the fear gauge as a tool to generate returns, not just an indicator. Whether we’re in peak VIX mode or not – it was high time we wrote a whitepaper on all the ins and outs of volatility trading via the VIX.
26
Jun
2017
Wall Street has a Bad Rap with Millennials – Good Luck Fixing it
From our in-house Millennial – Blake Kelley. If you’re a millennial, you’re acutely aware that you’ve killed everything. Seriously, google term millennial and you’ll see article after article about destroying entire industries and thus life as we know it. It’s laughable. Here’s a small collection Buzzfeed put together: The financial industry is no exception. Wall Street […]
21
Jun
2017
Quant Funds share of the Hedge Fund Industry
These quants now represent 17% of the total hedge fund industry…. Good for about $300 Billion.
19
Jun
2017
Who Will Win the Managed Futures Pinnacle Awards?
Before the winners are selected from the many Pinnacle award categories, we got to wondering how RCM would choose the winners. Who would win in each of the categories and why? Well as it turns out, our new database just so happens to assign a ranking to each manager based on our own proprietary system – which makes the decision purely systematic!
16
Jun
2017
Weekend Reads: Fear, Chaos, and All-Time Highs
Third is inadequate ability to diversify. This is largely a function of the two problems listed before, and benchmarking and indexing, which has been correlating the markets more and more. I’m not talking about short-term correlations — diversification applies of the time horizon of the assets, which is long. The Biggest Problems for Investors Today […]
07
Jun
2017
INFOGRAPHIC: Honey, I Shrunk the VIX
There’s been a growing chorus lately suggesting that perhaps the record low VIX readings aren’t due to record low feelings about volatility, but instead due to the dramatic increase in VIX products and assets betting on decreases in volatility.
31
May
2017
Alternatives Links: Doubt
Until then, rangebound markets might continue hurting systematic trend-followers in the short run
26
May
2017
Weekend Reads: Interest Rate Empire
Traders are jumping in and out of interest-rate futures as they speculate about Fed rate increases
