The impending government bailout of troubled Italian banks, led by Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena, a whisper conversation during the Brexit vote, is coming front and center as partial government ownership is one reported potential outcome. The move for a sovereign government to grapple with the systematic bank failure comes as the Minneapolis Federal Reserve bank is finishing its report on ending the “too big to fail” bank phenomena in the US.
Mark Melin is an alternative investment practitioner whose specialty is recognizing the impact of beta market environment on a technical trading strategy. A portfolio and industry consultant, wrote or edited three books including High Performance Managed Futures (Wiley 2010) and The Chicago Board of Trade’s Handbook of Futures and Options (McGraw-Hill 2008) and taught a course at Northwestern University's executive education program.
“We are in a secular bull market for ETFs,” BlackRock, Inc. (NYSE:BLK) CEO Larry Fink said during the company’s second-quarter earnings call Thursday.
BlackRock iShares ETFs outflows
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Notes from Anna Yu's presentation from Karen Leung Foundation's Sohn Hong Kong Investment Leaders Conference 2020.
Q2 2020 hedge fund letters, conferences and more
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By Dayanand Menashi [email protected] Safe Multiple - learn more from Buffett- The Making of an American Capitalist - By Roger Lowenstein
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