Mark White of OSFI gave a speech titled Basel III: Balancing of Risk and Regulation, in which he said nothing at all. There’s one one big problem with simple stock screens: Claymore’s Canadian Dividend exchange-traded …
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January 11, 2011
It had to come. Credit Suisse is starting a new Exchange targetting clients who are little girls: The venue, Light Pool, will be the first U.S. electronic communications network to be started in five years. …
January 10, 2011
The situation in Europe is slowly getting worse: The cost of insuring against default on European sovereign debt climbed to records and European stocks fell amid concern Portugal is next in line for a bailout. …
QE2 and Inflation
The Federal Reserve Board of St. Louis has published an article by Richard G. Anderson, Charles S. Gascon, and Yang Liu titled Doubling Your Monetary Base and Surviving: Some International Experience: The authors examine the …
January 7, 2011
Willem Buiter of Citibank is predicting a bail-out of Portugal: “Now that the Irish government has reached an agreement with the EU/IMF on a financial support package and associated conditionality, the market’s attention will turn …
January 6, 2011
On December 14 I highlighted Hoenig’s dissent from the FOMC decision and speculated: It occurs to me that Mr. Hoenig is being used – probably with his enthusiastic cooperation – as a straw man. The …
BSD.PR.A to Allow Retractions
Brookfield Soundvest Funds has announced: that the annual redemption rights attributable to the Capital Units and the Combined Securities (being one Capital Unit and a $10.00 principal amount of Preferred Securities) of the Brookfield Soundvest …
January 5, 2011
Manulife has announced that: Between October 1, 2010 and December 31, 2010, the Company: Shorted approximately $5 billion of equity futures contracts as part of the Company’s macro hedging program. Modestly increased its dynamic variable …
January 4, 2010
European bank regulation may become far more intrusive: National regulators of cross-border banks may be able to require “changes to legal or operational structures” if the lender would need “extraordinary public financial support” during a …
MAPF Portfolio Composition: December 2010
Turnover remained fairly constant in December, at about 27%. Trades were, as ever, triggered by a desire to exploit transient mispricing in the preferred share market (which may be thought of as “selling liquidity”), rather …