Previously confidential letters between Brian Lenihan, Ireland’s Minister of Finance, and Jean Claude Trichet, president of the European Central Bank, paint a picture of the ECB directing a sovereign... read more

Corporate Watchdog Pushes For Executive Accountability At Goldman Sachs Shareholders Meeting Advocates Rally Shareholders in Vote to Separate Role of CEO and Board Chair, Create Independent Board Chair to Increase... read more

US Ten Year Treasury notes are exhibiting a highly unusual correlation with a number of global assets. This abnormality is setting up a variety of potential trades, an October... read more

Investment Banks: From The Ashes Rebuilding A Challenged Industry by EY The industry’s current approach to change is tactical and piecemeal. It is not enough to rebuild the industry. Investment banking... read more

W.R. Grace Stock Soars on Hope of Favourable Asbestos Deal 06 May 2002, ICB Americas with Ted Weschler Complex and arduous, the corporate bankruptcy process is often misunderstood. While the... read more

DoubleLine Emerging Markets Fixed Income Fund webcast titled, "Emerging Market Debt and the Three C's" On May 24, 2016, Luz Padilla, Director of International Fixed Income, and Analysts Bill Campbell... read more

Japan's aging issue has been a topic of concern for a while but are the numbers even worse than many realize? Maybe Japan’s aging population has been the focus of... read more

Do Hedge Funds Generate Alpha or Simply Provide Factor Exposure? Q1 hedge fund letters, conference, scoops etc This research note was originally published by the CAIA Association’s AllAboutAlpha blog. Here is the link. SUMMARY Diverse... read more

Researchers at Duke University and the University of California at Berkeley point to quantitative evidence that the U.S. Fed  consistently leaks non-public information about its meetings, driving an investment... read more

Daniel Loeb feels the pain of investors anticipating the close of the the AbbVie Inc (NYSE:ABBV) / Shire PLC (ADR) (NASDAQ:SHPG) (LON:SHP) tax inversion merger as he questions a “mysterious” meeting... read more