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Category Archives: Finance and Investments
Institutional Investor on high-frequency trading
From Institutional Investor: Inside the Machine: A Journey into the World of High-Frequency Trading 10 Jun 2010 Michael Peltz An editor’s journey into the world of high-speed trading and proprietary algorithms that make or break markets. At 2:45p.m. on Thursday, … Continue reading
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Smart Grid in China
From Institutional Investor: Investors Want to Plug Into China’s Smart-Grid Market 01 Apr 2010 Xiang Ji Beijing’s massive conversion to a smart power grid could just one-up the rest of the world. Savvy entrepreneurs and investors are looking to get … Continue reading
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Caymans sign another TIEA
From International Tax Review: Cayman Islands agrees to tax information exchange with Netherlands The Cayman Islands signed a tax information exchange agreement (TIEA) with the Netherlands on July 8. This brings the number of TIEAs signed by the Cayman Islands … Continue reading
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Corporate bonds boom in China
From Business Week: In China, a Burst of Corporate Bonds Thanks to streamlined regulations, more companies are issuing debt cheaply and fast By Frederik Balfour Hong Kong – Here’s a little-known fact: Chinese companies now issue more corporate debt than … Continue reading
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B of A recaps at market
From Institutional Investor: At the Market Deal for Bank of America 03 Jun 2009 Steve Rosenbush BofA issues stock to withstand market volatility. Raising $33.9 billion in capital is no mean feat for a bank, especially given the violent mood … Continue reading
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Public sector pension plan problems
From Institutional Investor: The Big Public Pension Squeeze 10 Jun 2009 Steven Brull U.S. public sector pensions are facing massive budget shortfalls. Vallejo, a working-class community of 120,000 northeast of San Francisco, has long been a strong union town. Like … Continue reading
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Bonds for Microsoft
From Business Week: Bonds for Microsoft Cash is king these days—so much so that even debt haters are willing to take out loans to get more of it. On May 12, Microsoft sold bonds for the first time in its … Continue reading
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A dispatch from Turkey
From Institutional Investor: Turkey’s Military Pension Fund Reaps Windfall Jonathan Kandell 08 Jan 2009 Despite tensions between Turkey’s generals and the moderate Islamic government, OYAK, the military pension fund, has made the most of the country’s pro-business policies. For emerging-markets … Continue reading
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Behavioral finance marches on
Quant. Shop Offers Heady Long/Short Hedge Fund December 17, 2008 | Source: FINalternatives Santa Monica, Calif-based MarketPsy has launched a quantitative hedge fund that incorporates psychology into its trading strategy. So far, the firm’s Long-Short Fund has outperformed its discretionary … Continue reading
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Do I really know something Steven Levitt doesn’t?
Steven Levitt writes: Back in the old days, banks didn’t package and resell the mortgages they wrote. So when a homeowner got into trouble, they could go down and talk with the bank about working out some solution other than … Continue reading
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