From Global Asset Management As year-end approaches, we look ahead to the outlook for active trading and hedge funds in 2016. The choppy waters of 2015 has proved challenging for active managers. Both equities and global bonds are down this year to date as measured by the MSCI World index and the Barclays Global […] Read more »
The US Dollar – Novus Ordo Seclorum
By Neil Azous Managing Member of Rareview Macro LLC Most of us hand over dollar bills every day without ever really looking at them very closely. They are too familiar. But if you pause to look closely at the one dollar bill, you will see, right below the one-eyed pyramid, the Latin phrase “Novus […] Read more »
The Bank of Japan Goes All In According To Insight Investment
From Insight Investment The Bank of Japan (BoJ) announced on 31 October that it would dramatically increase the scale of its quantitative easing (QE) programme. Passed by a majority 5-4 vote of the BoJ’s Policy Board, it announced the intention to purchase ¥80 trillion (£440bn) of Japanese government bonds a year, marking an increase […] Read more »