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Returning office workers are challenging the country’s tradition of business attire.
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Chinese premier Xi Jingping says he wants economic growth in the communist country to outpace that of the U.S.
The problem is that China’s official economic statistics have long been aspirational rather than actual. Read more here.
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Female applicants will likely find the odds massively stacked against them when they look for a job in that booming industry. Read more here.
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Europe's reliance on imported energy is just part of the story. Read more here.
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If you think defense spending is booming now, just wait until next year. Read more here.
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The bears seem to have taken over the market these past few weeks and that should make bullish contrarian investors happy. Read more here.
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One of corporate America’s most notable loudmouths has acquired the largest stake in the home of online loudmouths: Twitter, the microblogging platform. Of course, the person in question is multi-billionaire Elon Musk, the wealthiest person on Earth, worth a staggering $288 billion. The day after his news-making investment, Twitter announced that Musk would also be joining its board of directors. Now, questions remain about what his role will actually look like. Here’s more about what his stake in Twitter could mean, and what his position on the board would have the ability to potentially do. Read more here.By SIMON CONSTABLE
The war exacerbates already problematic supply chain disruptions. Read more here.
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But alone hope for peace in Ukraine would be an unwise investment strategy. Read more here.
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The same plans could also hurt individual investors in the pocketbook. Read more here.
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine sent energy markets into a tizzy late last month. Most people felt the pinch at pump as gasoline prices soared.
But it looks like the wallet-emptying energy price surge could be over sooner than many think. At least that’s what the futures markets and some basic economics seem to suggest. Read more here.
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"Things seem to be heading in the right direction, but a lot of scenarios including some bad ones, remain plausible," a new report states. Read more here.
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Inverse and levered ETPs are neither effective hedging tools nor useful as buy-and-hold investments. They are effective only when used for short-term bets on the direction of an asset. They are ill understood and inherently unstable. Read more here.
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Combining factors in a multi-factor portfolio using forecast risk management can add substantially to investment returns. Backtesting showed such a strategy run over 54 years would have made annualized returns of 10.79%, vs. 7.77% for a similar non-risk-managed portfolio. Read more here.
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Retiree income can be maximised by shifting focus from targeting wealth at retirement to income sufficiency through retirement with the use of personalised glidepaths instead of approaches that use demographic averages. Read more here.
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Managers can improve the performance of the mean–variance approach by using enhanced portfolio optimization (EPO). EPO accounts for the noise in investors’ estimates of risk–return and, as a result, increases risk-adjusted performance. Read more here.
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Mutual fund managers who frequently change exposure to investment factors (market, size, book-to-market, and momentum) perform significantly worse than those who make fewer changes. Read more here.
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Investors can double alpha in the credit markets by using simple equity momentum strategies enhanced by applying machine learning with boosted regression trees. Read more here.
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Investors in actively managed US equity mutual funds should decrease/increase their investment as fund volatility decreases/increases. This strategy significantly improves investment performance compared with a buy-and-hold approach. Read more here.
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American Depositary Receipts (ADRs) have outperformed US stocks, with ADRs of Chinese companies doing particularly well. Read more here.
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Different climate risk metrics lead to portfolios with different carbon and risk–return profiles. Analyzing the merits and applicability of various climate data can help investors manage climate risk and improve risk-adjusted returns. Read more here.
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High-frequency algorithmic trading adds to ETF market stability by reducing the discrepancy between fund prices and net asset values (NAVs). Read more here.
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Sanctions will only increase Putin’s control over his people
“The issue is that sanctions often prompt a country’s population to rally around the flag. … Put another way, a siege mentality takes over with people banding together to weather the economic storm.” — Simon Constable,
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Many Americans got a case of sticker shock when they went to buy a new car last year. That might have been bad enough on its own, but Russia’s invasion of Ukraine means there’s more of the same to come, experts say.
“New vehicle prices will be pushed up even higher and there doesn’t appear to be any relief in sight,” says Garrett Nelson, North American Auto industry analyst at CFRA. “All the momentum is to the upside.” Read more here.
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Barring a near-miracle, sooner or later, sanctions will cripple Russia's economy. To most economists, that seems like an open and shut case.
What's more nuanced, however, is how those same bans on trading with Russia will send ripples through the rest of the global economy. While forecasting anything is complicated, it's trickier still when there's a war. Still, experts say the effect across the world will be uneven—creating some surprising winners and losers. Read more here.
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After years in the investing wilderness, commodities are hot again. And it looks as if the rally may continue for at least the foreseeable future, some analysts say. And the surge is now attracting investors of all types—from veterans to neophytes. The latter would do well to understand some of the basics in how commodity investing works. Read more here.
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Just a few days turned the tide of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—for the world and for Wall Street, but in completely different ways. Read more here.
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Get ready for some serious increases in the cost of borrowing money.
Red hot wage inflation and an exceptionally tight labor market will lead the Federal Reserve to raise its benchmark interest rate by 11 times by the end of next year, according to a new report from Wall Street bank Goldman Sachs. Read more here.
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The war in Ukraine looks set to have global consequences particularly in the farm patch. There could also be profits to be made for investors. Read more here.
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Theoretically, investing in commercial real estate should be simple – buy a property, renovate it, lease it, and sell the building. In practice, commercial real estate investing is far more complicated. Read more here.
This scene from the Italian Job movie (2003) seems appropriate right now...
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Banning Russia from the SWIFT payment system would hurt Europe. Read more here.