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Derivatives
Nasdaq bets on boom in ‘zero day’ options with new contracts
...Nasdaq this week listed a series of new options contracts tracking some of the most popular exchange traded funds investing in gold, silver, natural gas, oil and long-term Treasuries....
November 26, 2023
Due Diligence
How buying Teslas hurt Hertz Premium content
...The decision came alongside plans for 7,500 job cuts as its new chief executive Hein Schumacher tries to deliver on his promise to turn around the performance of one of the world’s largest consumer goods...
March 20, 2024
FT Live
Future of Asset Management Europe
New fund firm models for Europe's resurgence
Tuesday, 12 NovemberLondon, UK
Unhedged
Where Tesla departs from the Mag 7 Premium content
...Likewise, S&P Global Mobility surveys suggest stable EV loyalty, measured as the share of EV owners whose next car was an EV, especially for Teslas....
April 3, 2024
World
FirstFT: Federal Reserve sparks market rally
...Dennis Fan, a lawyer for the attorney-general’s office, argued that the former president could piece together a series of smaller bonds, or use his real estate portfolio to secure bank credit that could...
March 21, 2024
Markets volatility
An oral history of the fear index
...The Cboe Volatility Index — commonly known as Vix because of its ticker — turned 30-years-old earlier this year....
September 20, 2023
Japanese business & finance
Japanese department store workers to stage first strike since 1950s
...The strike, involving as many as 900 workers, is being held in protest against plans by the department store’s owner, 7&i Holdings, to sell the 10-store Sogo & Seibu chain to the US investment fund Fortress...
August 30, 2023
FT Live
Bank of the Year Awards 2024
Recognising the best in banking globally
Wednesday, 4 DecemberLondon, UK
The Big Read
The seven companies driving the US stock market rally
...This meant that as these stocks went up, so too did their index weights, forcing funds to buy more of them....
June 15, 2023
Unhedged
Private credit’s safety blanket Premium content
...We have written a series of newsletters about private credit and whether it can deliver on the promise of equity-like returns without equity-like risk....
August 24, 2023
Japanese business & finance
Japan stock index hits 33-year high as investors warm to Tokyo story
...As well as excitement over the potential for a historic rebalancing of corporate priorities, investors also said Japan was benefiting from a “not-China” trade, a perception that Tokyo was a safe way of gaining...
May 16, 2023
US equities
Investors bet on shrinking pool of tech stocks as rally narrows
...Laud said the firm had asked every one of its fund managers to scour their portfolios to look for weak links that might struggle if the current slowdown turns more severe....
April 30, 2023
FT Asset Management
Asset Management: Cracks in European commercial real estate
...Chart of the week France’s stock market has surged to a series of record highs as investors pile into luxury goods groups on hopes of a sustained rebound in Chinese demand for high-end brands....
April 17, 2023
ETF HubLatest news on ETFs
Billions pouring into bond ETFs are bright spot for BlackRock
...Others use BlackRock’s AGG broad index fund as a holding tank when they receive large inflows so they can put money to work immediately, while also giving their active managers time to pick up the right...
February 17, 2023
FT Asset Management
Asset Management: BlackRock sends a shiver through the funds industry
...Traditional portfolios comprising 60 per cent stocks and 40 per cent bonds, the cornerstone of many investors’ asset allocation, suffered their worst performance last year since at least 1999, as the inverse...
January 16, 2023
FirstFT
FirstFT: US stocks sink
...The blue-chip S&P 500 index ended down 2 per cent, with declines in every sector. The tech-heavy Nasdaq Composite slid 2.5 per cent. Both indices had their steepest daily losses since December 15....
February 22, 2023
ESG investing
Vivek Ramaswamy: the self-styled scourge of ‘woke’ boardrooms
...S&P 500 companies....
September 27, 2022
FT Live
Future of Asset Management North America
New models for the next age of fund management
Wednesday, 25 SeptemberNew York, NY, USA
Markets InsightCharley Ellis
Worries about the dominance of big three index trackers are wrong
...With objective reports from S&P Global showing that around 85 per cent of active managers of US funds focused on large capitalisation stocks underperformed the S&P 500 index over last decade, those concerns...
June 22, 2022
Berkshire Hathaway Inc
Quant funds snap up shares in Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway
...“If you are a hedge fund and you are trying to make a pivot away from growth to value, it is simple and as liquid as anything you could pivot to,” said Bill Smead, who manages a stock portfolio invested...
September 2, 2022
The Big Read
A year of pain: investors struggle in a new era of higher rates
...At its lowest point this year, the S&P 500 index had shed $11tn in market capitalisation: to give an idea of the scale, even if the figures are not directly comparable, that is similar to the entire annual...
November 30, 2022
FT Alphaville
How to spend a million dollars, by Sam Bankman-Fried
...Users start with 500 “Mana”, an on-platform currency that can be redeemed as a charitable donation at M$100 per $1....
December 19, 2022
Moral Money
Determining what’s ‘green’ is harder than it seems Premium content
...Just one of the funds tracking the S&P Global Clean Energy index — an exchange-traded fund run by BlackRock’s iShares — has net assets of $5.5bn....
August 3, 2022
UnhedgedRobert Armstrong
Cool inflation, giddy markets Premium content
...Inc, the people said . . ....
November 11, 2022
FirstFT
FirstFT: Wall Street banks to pay $1.8bn over messaging violations
...bank after a series of scandals....
September 28, 2022
The Long ViewKatie Martin
Markets have become a minefield
...Just in the Nasdaq 100 index, which does not capture Snap or Target, seven stocks have plunged 20 per cent or more in a single day so far this year, almost as many as in the whole of pandemic-struck 2020...
May 27, 2022
Scoreboard
Tiger lights up Masters amid Saudi golf threat Premium content
...its portfolio....
April 9, 2022
Unhedged
Berkshire has a moment Premium content
...Money, they write, “is a series of agreements and customs among and within countries. Violating some of those agreements can shatter the rest, destroying the privilege of money.”...
March 4, 2022

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