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Tom Brakke: Three Ways
by Tom Brakke, Research Puzzle As explained in the item below, I’ve been thinking in seven-year periods lately, so I thought at the turn of the year I’d go back that far and see from where we have...
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Emerging Market Meltdown Resumes
As South Africa hiked rates this morning (whose effect on the Rand was promptly overwhelmed by the Lira collapsing back to weaker than pre-rate-hike) stock markets around the world are rapidly...
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Junk Bonds Have Distanced Themselves From Other Bonds
Junk Bond ETF Far Outperforming Other Bonds by Hale Stewart, The Bonddad Blog Above is a one year comparison chart of several major bond market ETFs. Keep in mind that some are total market (JNK, MBB...
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Deborah Frame: Why Do We Accept Volatility as a Measure of Risk?
Not Your Grandfather’s Risk Measurement by Deborah Frame, Vice President, Investments, Cougar Global Investments Why Do We Accept Volatility as a Measure of Risk? — Recognizing the Non-Normality of...
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Here Comes QE In Financial Drag: Draghi’s New ABCP Monetization Ploy
by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog, You can smell this one coming a mile away: The European Central Bank and Bank of England on Friday outlined options to reinvigorate the market for bundled bank...
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David Rosenberg: 10 Macro Indicators That Point to No Recession
[optinlocker]by Cullen Roche, Pragmatic Capitalism In a recent research note David Rosenberg of Gluskin Sheff checks in on 10 of his favorite macro recession indicators. His conclusion – based on this...
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Corporate Credit Fundamentals Worsening?
by Sober Look US corporate credit markets, particularly high yield bonds, are becoming quite frothy, as risk/reward dynamics continue to worsen. Here are some key indicators: 1. In the last couple of...
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Don’t Skip the Homework: High Yield’s Overlooked Risks
[optinlocker] by Gershon Distenfeld, AllianceBernstein Many investors have taken on more risk in their quest for higher returns—especially as signs have pointed to interest rates staying stable until...
View ArticleSom Seif: Mid-Year Market Update 2014
We recently sat down with Som Seif, founder and CEO, of Toronto-based Purpose Investments, to discuss his oultook for the next 6-12 months. We also discussed his company’s newest ETF product, the...
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Guy Haselmann: “Fading Smiles”
Out There Beyond the Wall by Guy Haselmann, Director, Capital Markets Strategy, Scotiabank GBM • Germany, France, Japan and the Eurozone are expected to follow Italy with flat or negative Q2 GDP when...
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View ArticleSome Great High Yield Finds, Thanks to Central Banks
We recently sat down with Mike Swan, portfolio manager at Arrow Capital, to discuss his fixed income and high yield outlook. Inefficiencies caused by divergent central bank policies, currencies, and...
View ArticleMike Swan on Arrow Capital’s New Exemplar Growth and Income Fund
Mike Swan, portfolio manager, discusses Exemplar Growth and Income Fund, Arrow Capital Management’s newest investment fund, which he is co-managing with colleague, Mike MacBain, and Bay Street Legend,...
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Who’s Smarter? Stocks or Corporate Bonds?
by Dana Lyons, J. Lyons Fund Management, Inc. One of the Wall Street platitudes often repeated is that the bond space is the “smart” market, particularly when in conflict with equities. That is, when...
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Som Seif Q&A: Its Been [Over] 1300 Days Since There’s Been a Correction of...
(Duration: 3:30 minutes) It’s been [over ] 1300 days since we’ve seen a correction of 10% or more – Markets don’t die from old age, says Purpose Investments‘, Som Seif. At this point only a few things...
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Mike MacBain: Outlook for high yield
Mike MacBain: Outlook for high yield Mike MacBain, CIO, East Coast Fund Management, portfolio manager for Arrow Capital's Exemplar Investment Grade Fund and Exemplar Tactical Corporate Bond Fund,...
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Mike MacBain: Interest rate risk can't get much higher
Mike MacBain: Interest rate risk can't get much higher Mike MacBain, CIO and co-founder of East Coast Fund Management, Inc., and portfolio manager for Arrow Capital's Exemplar Investment Grade Fund...
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A Bigger Brick in the Wall of Worries
A Bigger Brick in the Wall of Worries by David Merkel, Aleph Blog I have my list of concerns for the economy and the markets: Unexpected Global Macroeconomic Surprises, including more from China...
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SIA Weekly: How are Corporate Bond ETFs, Hedged and Unhedged Doing?
SIA Weekly: How are Corporate Bond ETFs, Hedged and Unhedged Doing? by SIACharts.com For this week’s SIA Equity Leaders Weekly, we are going to take a look at the SIA Asset Class Rankings (ACR) and...
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I bought corporate bonds and all I got was this stupid currency exposure
I bought corporate bonds and all I got was this stupid currency exposure by Corey Hoffstein, Think Newfound Research Summary In the current “Fed on / Fed off” market environment, dollar exposure...
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