A social impact bond (SIB) is a debt instrument that directly links its yield with a social outcome or series […]
‘The cult of equity is dying’ – so is it time to buy?
Market bigwigs are shouting about the end of equities, leaving contrarian investors rubbing their hands in glee at the potential […]
Russian mortgage agency to float $407m worth of bonds
(RBC) Mortgage agent AHML 2012-1, a subsidiary of state-owned Agency for Housing Mortgage Lending (AHML), intends to offer three issues […]
Looking Forward to the FOMC Meeting and Beyond: Speculations
By DoctoRx Here’s a guess about what the Fed will say Wednesday following the FOMC meeting. There is no justification for […]
The Alternative Warren Buffett
By Morgan Housel, Motley Fool, Writing in the Financial Times in 2008, John Kay put Warren Buffett’s success into simple […]
Towards the Paranormal
By William H. Gross, from Pimco website, The New Normal, previously believed to be bell-shaped and thin-tailed in its depiction […]
PIMCO Debuts Australian Bond ETF
ETFguide.com, On Tuesday November 1, 2011 PIMCO launched the first of three new bond exchange-traded funds (ETFs) targeting individual countries. […]
“The End of Fake”
by macromon, Global Macro Monitor, We have no idea how the S&P downgrade of the U.S. is going to play […]
Commodities and the global economy after QE2 – Simon Hunt
By Simon Hunt, Simon Hunt says, 2012 will see a new round of money printing by the Fed resulting in […]
How to play the coming bond bust
Leery of Treasurys? Agency debt and bank loan ETFs can make for good alternatives The Treasury bond bears are out […]
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