The Institutional Risk Analyst

Q: What is the duration of a security with a negative yield? Hold that thought. Noted financial author Nassim Nicholas Taleb has little...

New York | This week in The Institutional Risk Analyst, we return to the activities of funds operating in the world of distressed real...

Washington | Consider the irony of the American housing sector. In the District of Columbia, various pundits, market retreads and...

New York | In his new book, “Keeping At It: The Quest for Sound Money and Good Government,” by Paul Volcker (1979-1987) with Christine...

“Across the globe, investors have one thing in mind. How far will interest rates rise and is the great bull market in bonds finally...

New York | With the global punditry assembled in Davos this week, the topic of the dollar seems to have bubbled to the surface again. ...

Tyler Durden, "Fight Club" (1999) Punta del Este | Last week our comrade at Zero Hedge astutely noted that, in the October 2012 FOMC...

New York | The term “Greenspan Put” was coined after the stock market crash of 1987 and the subsequent bailout of Long Term Capital...

New York | We start the week in downtown Manhattan with a presentation to the International Association of Credit Portfolio Managers in...

“Stock prices have reached what looks like a permanently high plateau." Irving Fisher October 1929 This Thursday The IRA’s Christopher...

JPMorgan (NYSE:JPM) boss Jamie Dimon says there’s something wrong with the US economy and he is obviously right. Here’s our short list:...