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Book Review: Financial Risk Management for Dummies
Financial Risk Management for Dummies. 2016. By Aaron Brown. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., www.wiley.com. 384 pages, $26.99. The dummies to whom Financial Risk Management for Dummies is addressed are not outright novices. Rather, they exemplify the maxim that a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Aaron Brown,... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2016 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Life Lessons from an Unexpected Source
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The week after Thanksgiving, feeling remorseful after all the gluttony that ensued over the holiday weekend, I decided to drag myself to my favorite spin class. I expected to feel energized and accomplished from a nice, intense workout, but I didn’t expect that I would also come away reminded of... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2016 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Investment commentary numbers: How to get them right
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Investment commentary calls for lots of numbers: benchmark and portfolio returns, economic data, and more. When you get those numbers wrong, you undercut your credibility and embarrass yourself. I have some ideas about how you can avoid mistakes by proofreading and checking your facts. My expensive mistake A bad experience... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2016 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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The Great Mismatch: Addressing Barriers to Global Capital Flows (Part V)
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PART V: Ideas for Navigating Capital Flows To succeed in the evolving global capital landscape, long-term institutional investors will need to be at the forefront of re-thinking long-standing assumptions and re-shaping markets. Enough success factors have already been identified to serve as a rough guide for investors to navigate the... Continue reading
Posted Jan 4, 2016 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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DIY Financial Advisor- A Book Review
The Alpha Architect, LLC team of Wes Gray, Jack Vogel, and David Foulke has produced a dynamic, fun, and accessible text that has the power to free readers from agonizing over implementing a disciplined investment process and making investment decisions. The processes offered convincingly depict a route to success in... Continue reading
Posted Dec 2, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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The Great Mismatch: Addressing Barriers to Global Capital Flows (Part IV)
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PART IV: The Barriers to Efficient Capital Flows (continued) Efficient cross-border capital flows—allowing investors to search for reliable returns, and in the process, meet legitimate capital needs wherever they are—would be a more effective way to finance the global economy than today’s system. In theory, few dispute this. In practice,... Continue reading
Posted Dec 2, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Three Critical Steps for Extracting Great Insights (Step 3: Entice a Thorough Response)
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Have you ever found yourself going into a store or making a call for something you need only to be disappointed by the salesperson? As soon as the experience began to deteriorate, you probably had little interest in sharing your needs because you thought “let me just end this pain... Continue reading
Posted Dec 2, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Donald Trump, grade level, and your financial writing
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Donald Trump’s appeal has surprised many observers of presidential elections. Love him or hate him, you can’t ignore his presence. Part of his appeal rests on his use of plain language, according to a recent article. That’s something financial professionals should note because of its implications for your writing. Trump... Continue reading
Posted Dec 2, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Water Megatrend Creates Compelling Backdrop for Investors
Despite water covering 70.0% of the earth’s surface, only 3.0% is fresh, and just 0.5% accessible to humanity. Presently, 2.5 billion people, almost 40.0% of the world’s grain production, and approximately 25.0% of global GDP are at risk because of non‐sustainable water use1. The problems of water scarcity, contamination, and... Continue reading
Posted Nov 19, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Three Critical Steps for Extracting Great Insights (Step 2: Calm Their Concerns)
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“I can’t believe you would be so insensitive!” “How could you say something like that?” Have you ever heard these statements directed at you? What was your initial reaction? A voice in your head probably said, “Be very, very careful what you say next.” It’s human nature to raise our... Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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The Great Mismatch: Addressing Barriers to Global Capital Flows (Part III)
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PART III: The Barriers to Efficient Capital Flows (continued) Efficient cross-border capital flows—allowing investors to search for reliable returns, and in the process, meet legitimate capital needs wherever they are—would be a more effective way to finance the global economy than today’s system. In theory, few dispute this. In practice,... Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Mastering ’Metrics: The Path from Cause to Effect
The authors provide an easy-to-read overview of key concepts in econometrics for anyone desiring a strong intuitive description of how to conduct analysis using simple techniques. Covering a limited number of topics with practical examples of each, they offer a useful framework for conducting fundamental econometric analysis. Although the book... Continue reading
Posted Nov 17, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Elections and Financial Stability
When Hillary Clinton unveiled her proposals to assure financial stability earlier this month, few people bothered to notice. Nonetheless, one central piece of legislature Clinton proposed to increase trust of the everyday investor in our financial markets, a “tax on the high-frequency trading that makes our markets less stable and... Continue reading
Posted Oct 29, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Three Critical Steps for Extracting Great Insights (Step 1: Identify Parameters)
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Think of your favorite CNBC journalist and ask why he or she is likely to get more information from a CEO than a typical analyst. If you don’t have an answer, it’s because the top journalists have been trained to use best practices for interviewing (or even “interrogating”) which can... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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THE GREAT MISMATCH PART II: The Barriers to Efficient Capital Flows
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Efficient cross-border capital flows—allowing investors to search for reliable returns, and in the process, meet legitimate capital needs wherever they are—would be a more effective way to finance the global economy than today’s system. In theory, few dispute this. In practice, many barriers have been erected that hamper efficient flows.... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Not game over for China
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If popularity has its price, then major investors in China are now paying those consequences. Chinese stock markets have taken a plunge and continue to face a roller-coaster path of sorts. There’s no telling how long the ride is or what turns lie ahead, which means investors have been increasingly... Continue reading
Posted Oct 20, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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The Great Mismatch: Addressing Barriers to Global Capital Flows
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Executive Summary Cross-border capital flows are at an inflection point. While in aggregate they
have not returned to pre-crisis high watermarks—primarily driven by a significant decline in bank lending—they are increasingly varied in their scope and direction. More countries around the world are seeking and providing capital across borders than ever... Continue reading
Posted Oct 7, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Credit sources fairly in your financial blog posts
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You want to do the right thing when you find an interesting idea, statistic, or quote that you use on your blog. That means crediting your source. How much information must you provide? Citation rules for blogs aren’t as clear as for books, where sources such as The Chicago Manual... Continue reading
Posted Oct 5, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Positive Psychology: Assessing Personal and Professional Performance
Applied psychology has historically focused on the treatment of emotional/behavioral disorders and the remediation of conflicts and life problems. This focus has been enshrined in the reimbursement system, as insurance entities require Diagnostic and Statistical Manual codings of illnesses to justify reimbursement. In spite of this “medically necessary” emphasis, a... Continue reading
Posted Oct 5, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Warning! Don’t make these interview mistakes
So you landed a fantastic interview opportunity, and now you need to seal the deal to get the job offer. Whether you are interviewing at a bank, asset manager, hedge fund or any other type of financial institution, it’s hard to predict the type of interview you will have. As... Continue reading
Posted Oct 1, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Decomposition of Total Volatility: How Important is Idiosyncratic Risk?
Introduction In recent years there has been a lot of debate about volatility, and the components of volatility. A lot has been said about the risk-on, risk-off market with a focus on macro and factor risks. There are many dimensions to volatility, and this paper uses the methodology of Campbell... Continue reading
Posted Sep 17, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Operational Due Diligence: The Forgotten Part of Due Diligence
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The evaluation and selection of investment managers is dominated by an Investment Due Diligence process focused on strategy, performance, and client objectives. Often overlooked and considerably undervalued is the Operational Due Diligence process
which looks into the quality of a firm’s operations. As a necessary component of a complete due diligence... Continue reading
Posted Sep 17, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Shocker! When you self-promote you actually help others
As a career coach, I work with clients who are top professionals in their fields. Despite their accomplishments and the desire to have more visibility in their careers, many struggle with self-promotion and self-advocacy. They come to me hoping to learn to articulate their value proposition and accomplishments to key... Continue reading
Posted Sep 17, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Book Review: Misbehaving- The Making of Behavioral Economics
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Richard H. Thaler has spent his career studying the radical notion that the central agents in the economy are humans―predictable, error-prone individuals. Misbehaving is his arresting, frequently hilarious account of the struggle to bring an academic discipline back down to earth―and change the way we think about economics, ourselves, and... Continue reading
Posted Sep 3, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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Living in the Outlier
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The past few years can only be described as one of the most unusually serene periods in history for the U.S. equity market. While over time it began to feel normal, we have been living in the outlier. Let’s take a quick trip down memory lane. The DiMaggio Streak of... Continue reading
Posted Sep 2, 2015 at The Finance Professionals' Post
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