Robos Think It’s A Great Time To Buy Risk Assets
Most people who know a bit about financial markets history know that we are in unprecedented territory with central bank stimulus, gratuitous buybacks, widespread accounting shenanigans. But robo-advisors apparently think it is a great time to buy risk assets. Check out this Morning Markets Briefing from Convergex (subscription is free) in an article called Millenials...Read More
Negative Rates – Welcome To Beyond The Looking Glass
Wow, just listen to all the chatter about negative interest rates! The question in my mind is not if this economic twilight zone is coming to the United States, but rather when. Japan, after all, had a decent head start to the rest of the world in terms of QE policies, so it may take...Read More
New Risks in 2016 and New Scenarios For Your Client Meetings
Dear colleague, happy new year! 2016 is shaping up to be an extremely volatile year to say the least. The key risks for 2016 stem from two factors: Sharp drop in energy prices that persists Fed starting to raise rates Energy has had historic declines in 2015. The main issue is not the oil price...Read More
Frontrunning Goes Full Star Wars: Uses Trading Lighsaber
By now most of market participants are aware of the ubiquitous front running going on in the markets. Michael Lewis detailed only some of its aspects in its excellent Flash Boys. Here is some amazing investigative work that uncovered that frontrunning is now almost literally Star Wars, with lasers being used to outrun regular investors....Read More
Article by RiXtrema Authors Wins 2015 Peter L. Bernstein Award – Journal of Derivatives, published by Institutional Investor Journals
An article in the Journal of Derivatives, published by Institutional Investor Journals, has been named the winner of the 2015 Peter L. Bernstein Award. Risk Estimation and Hedging: A Reverse Stress Testing Approach – written by Yaacov Kopeliovich, Arcady Novosyolov, Daniel Satchkov and Barry Schachter (all authors associated with RiXtrema) — investigates a recent innovation...Read More
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