August Jobs Report
The all-important August jobs report was released this morning with slightly disappointing results. The headline employment figure came in at 130,000, which was 30,000 [...]
Fixed Income Duration
SUMMARY: The goal of this post is to give an intuitive overview of the concept of duration as opposed to a math centric view [...]
Global Interest Rates and Their Impact on US Rates
SUMMARY Investors must invest. Staying in cash is not an option for most institutional investors. Negative yields are created by fees and extend to [...]
The FANG/FANMAG Effect on Stock Market Performance
SUMMARY: FANG (more accurately referred to as FANMAG) refers to the outsized effect on the S&P 500 Index of the stocks Facebook, Amazon, Netflix, [...]