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Category Archives: Financial Markets
Monetary Transmission: The Bank of Japan’s Weakest Link
By Ankit Mittal, Quantitative Research This is our second post on Japan’s new economic project. The newly appointed Bank of Japan (BOJ) Governor Haruhiko Kuroda shocked the market by announcing the “massive” monetary easing at his first policy meeting on … Read More…
Diverging Trends – Risk Appetite and Commodity Markets
This is the seventh installment of The Smart Cube’s monthly Risk Appetite Index (TSC RAI) blog series. A curious phenomenon is currently playing out in the global markets. Improving macroeconomic outlook and continuation of QE by the Fed ideally support … Read More…
Currency Wars – A New Paradigm in the Global Economy
Recent efforts by the Japanese government to weaken the Yen, in order to revive the domestic economy have led authorities in South Korea, Russia, Norway, China, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden and some Eurozone countries to raise … Read More…
The Smart Cube Risk Appetite Index – Laggards Take a Leap
This is the fifth installment of The Smart Cube’s monthly Risk Appetite Index (TSC RAI) blog series. Something is stirring in the markets! There are steady though cautious movements taking place. People have now started talking about the … Read More…
The Smart Cube Risk Appetite Index – Preparing for the Equity Turnaround
This is the fourth installment of The Smart Cube’s monthly Risk Appetite Index (TSC RAI) blog series. 2012 was the year of fixed income. Global bond fund sales were close to the €200 billion mark and the European bond fund … Read More…
Betting on Abe-nomics?
The Liberal Democratic Party, led by Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, has come to power with a bold economic agenda. They want the Bank of Japan (BOJ) to reverse the appreciation of the yen and bring the country out of the … Read More…
The Smart Cube Risk Appetite Index – The Tale of Two Asset Classes: Equity and Fixed Income
This is the third installment of The Smart Cube’s monthly Risk Appetite Index (TSC RAI) blog series. For the first time in more than 50 years, UK pension funds hold more bonds than equities. In fact, many fund managers are … Read More…
The Smart Cube Risk Appetite Index – Tactical Investing
This is the second installment of The Smart Cube’s monthly Risk Appetite Index (TSC RAI) blog series. The current macroeconomic environment—dominated by low yields and tail-risk concerns (US fiscal cliff, Euro crisis and China slowdown)—has challenged investors of all types. While … Read More…
Special Purpose Acquisition Companies: Key Parameters Investors Should Assess at Various Investment Phases
Hedge funds and institutional investors have been investing in numerous vehicles that are unavailable to retail investors, such as private equity investment options. Special Purpose Acquisition Companies (SPACs) is an option that allows all secondary market investors to participate in … Read More…
Real Option Analysis: A Multi-faceted Approach to Efficient Capital Budgeting
Traditionally, managers have used a range of tools and techniques in the process of making the most efficient project evaluation decisions i.e. whether to invest in a given project or not. These have included approaches such as Payback, NPV, IRR … Read More…
Change in the Middle East and North Africa: Implications for Business
The recent civil unrest in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region has, for obvious reasons, attracted significant attention globally. With countries across the globe still working to recover in the aftermath of the 2008–09 global economic crisis, the … Read More…
Is the Manufacturing Sourcing Model Changing?
Emerging markets in Southeast Asia, South America, and Eastern Europe have become attractive manufacturing locations for many industries, primarily because of their cheap labor and FDI- friendly environment. Additionally, governments in these fast-growing markets have encouraged the emergence and growth … Read More…
The Outlook for the Brazilian Real
Recent oil discoveries, the hosting of the 2014 World Cup and the 2016 Olympics, as well as improved sovereign ratings from credit agencies, have firmly placed Brazil as a ‘must-have’ investment in every emerging market focused portfolio. However, investor interest … Read More…
Understanding the Recent Growth in Food Prices
The last year has seen an all too familiar pattern of food price hikes, not dissimilar to what we experienced back in 2007-2008. The 2008 food price hikes were driven by several factors, including high oil prices and the increasing … Read More…
Africa – A Closer Look
Africa is a continent that evokes a wide range of perspectives, from the cultural to the political to the economic. In all of these different, yet interrelated ways, it is clearly a force to be reckoned with. Consider a few … Read More…
Delinquency Modeling Using Survival Analysis
For financial services organizations in the business of lending, understanding which customers should be granted a particular loan, and, importantly, how much, has been a central question that not just drives their profitability, but, as we have seen in the … Read More…
Precious Metals – The Outlook for Silver and Gold
“The ultimate asset bubble.” This is how George Soros described gold last year, even as his fund took sizable long positions in the precious metal. Why not take advantage of rising values (so long as the bubble doesn’t burst), particularly … Read More…
Nuclear Energy in Germany
Nuclear energy has been heralded by many as one of the most important solutions to the growing energy demands of the world, particularly given concerns regarding increasing greenhouse gas emissions and the rising price of oil. The popularity of nuclear … Read More…
4 Key Trends Influencing Automotive Procurement
Few industries today are as global, interrelated and complex as the automotive sector. (Fewer still have gone through the level of challenge and change that we have seen over the past several years.) As the automotive sector has emerged from … Read More…
What’s Next for the Chinese Yuan?
On February 17th, in a significant announcement by Chinese authorities, plans to allow domestic trading of Yuan options against other currencies from April onwards were rolled out, with the fundamental aim of assisting Chinese exporters and importers hedge against currency … Read More…
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