Hints and tips:
...Several of the worst-performing companies in the index, including Hippo and Root, focus on personal lines of insurance such as home and auto....
...Andrew Garthwaite et al at Credit Suisse has had a fiddle about with the model portfolio, resulting in insurers getting a push....
...Chetty et al. (2017) find that there is a 14 years life expectancy gap between top and bottom 1% males in the US, and that this gap has widened since 2001....
...Monetary policy will remain “accommodative” and barriers to actual tightening remain high BUT, from Citi’s Buiter et al, with our emphasis: In 2016, the amount of incremental monetary easing already slowed...
...For a company like Rural that is traded on a major exchange, ―[t]urnover measured by average weekly trading of . . . 1% would justify a substantial presumption‖ of market efficiency. 5 Bromberg et al., Bromberg...
...It comes down to liquidity spirals say Mancini et al: Contrary to common perceptions, all exchange rates experienced a significant decline in liquidity during the financial crisis, especially after the...
...As a former investment banker, Augar tells the story of the disaster in the financial markets. What really happened at Northern Rock, Royal Bank of Scotland et al? This gives you a clearer idea....
...And if Al Sharpton, Mike Bloomberg, and Newt Gingrich can agree that we need to solve it, then all of us can agree on that....
...Joseph Andelin, Utah: How does the shareholder makeup (i.e., institutional, insiders, hedge funds, et al.) affect your estimate of a firm’s intrinsic value and consequently, your margin of safety?...
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