Money and Finance
The Absolute Return Letter - July 2012
This month's Absolute Return Letter picks up on the question we left hanging in the air back in May - is Asia a potential re-run of Europe? Although policy rates appear to be dangerously low, and thus encouraging further borrowing, Asia has come a long way since 1997 and there is no immediate risk of a financial meltdown. Australian property prices and commodity prices - in particular crude oil prices - are more likely 'credit event' candidates in our opinion.
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Links
Ruane, Cunniff & Goldfarb Investor Day Transcript (May 2015) [H/T market folly] (LINK) Pershing Square Holdings' interim report [H/T Will] (LINK) Jim Grant: The Fed Turned the Stock Market Into a 'Hall of Mirrors' (video) (LINK) Are You...
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The Absolute Return Letter, February 2014: Challenging The Consensus
Link to: The Absolute Return Letter, February 2014: Challenging the Consensus Investors are overwhelmingly bearish on bonds going into 2014. In this month’s Absolute Return Letter we challenge that view and look at various reasons why the bond...
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The Absolute Return Letter, December 2013: Squeaky Bum Time
QE has led to asset price inflation. That much we established in the November Absolute Return Letter. In this month’s letter we go one step further and look at whether we are now in bubble territory. Considering the strong bull-run we have experienced...
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The Absolute Return Letter - February 2013
Currency war or something altogether different? We cannot recall ever having encountered as much bearish sentiment when it comes to the outlook for bond prices as we see at the moment. In this month's Absolute Return Letter we question whether the...
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The Absolute Return Letter - October 2012: When Career Risk Reigns
In this month's Absolute Return Letter we pick up the baton from last month. How does the current crisis actually affect financial markets? How do you overcome the low returns? What can you do to protect the downside risk in a high correlation environment?...
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