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As we enter a new year, financial markets are displaying tangible signs of optimism. Equity markets are setting new record highs, credit spreads are at their lowest levels in two years, and according to JP Morgan even volatility in the foreign exchange markets has dropped...
Liquidity is the ability to buy or sell something whilst incurring normal transactions costs. Liquidity in fixed income markets are no less important to liquidity in equity markets. How does one measure liquidity? In a managed fund, it is complicated. It depends on many inter-related factors such...
I am a bit of a nerd for books about business strategy and growth, and one that was recommended by a mentor is “Exponential Organizations” by Salim Ismail. The book is a guide for how businesses can re-position themselves for the rise of technology. If...
Simon Wang Portfolio Manager of eInvest Cash Booster Fund (Managed Fund) (ticker: ECAS) tells us of his hot summer reads. We're looking forward to seeing how these reads might rub off on the ECAS portfolio. Thinking In Bets (Annie Duke) Annie Duke won the 2004 World Series...
At eInvest, we are all about redefining, renewal and rediscovery. Innovation and technology are at our core and as a result I've been leaning into learning more about angel investing over the past few months. I super interested in the fintech, healthtech and edutech sectors...
At eInvest, we often use the ESG (Environmental, Social and Governance) acronym in a way that assumes that everybody knows what it means and all that goes with it. It soon becomes clear that it is just another confusing investing acronym – so we thought...
The US Strategy and Quant team at Wall Street investment bank Bank of America Merrill Lynch recently published a research note to clients “Top 10 Reasons you should care about ESG”. The note contained some interesting findings and here are our 7 favourites: You can do good and...
According to a recent Fortune article, San Francisco was rated as the best city for trick-or-treating and the northern neighborhoods of Presidio Heights and Seacliff as the top ranked to visit on Halloween. Apparently kids from all over town visit these neighbourhoods in hope of...
Considering the volatile economic and political times we are going through, Australia’s sharemarket turned in a very respectable “steady as she goes” performance in the September quarter of 2019. The all important ASX200 index closed the September quarter at 6688 which was up 0.8 of one...
The United States (US) Federal Reserve started cutting its overnight cash rates a couple of months ago. This is the interest rate that commercial banks in the US have to pay for overnight loans. It’s quite an important number because it sets a basic benchmark...
