Portfolio for the Future™

Unseal the Doomsday book! Yes, though, I know: governments never run out of excuses to keep secrets. Further…

By Andrew Beer As of mid-month October, the S&P 500 was down over 5% and the MSCI World was down 6%. In…

Early this month the price of gold dipped briefly below $1,200 an ounce. Since then it has risen, not all…

 The independent data provider Eurekahedge says in its most recent report that funds investing in India…

Detroit filed for bankruptcy court protection in July 2013. In December, challenges to its eligibility for…

The Nobel Prize in Economics, formally the “Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred…

By Diane Harrison While reading "Swimming to Antarctica," the autobiography of Lynne Cox, a a long-distance…

Is there a bubble in oil and gas stock prices? And is it now bursting? Those are pertinent questions in the…

When does it make sense for an asset manager to customize its risk model? And why? There are, after all, a…

In the words of Sir Walter Scott, “Oh, what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” A key…

GFIA’s latest “Research Insights” begins with an essay that describes itself as “ruminative and wide-angled…

“It’s late September and I really should be getting back to school,” sang Rod Stewart in Maggie Mae.…

The ongoing exchange of briefs between the New York Attorney General and Barclays in a lawsuit over the HFT…

A federal judge has ruled that a bitcoin mining company based in Overland Park , Kansas, with the wonderful…

By Andrew Smith, CAIA Liquid alternative investments have exploded over the past decade. Post 2007-2009…