Darren Winters asks, could the carry trade be the next best gig on the street? The race to the bottom in emerging currencies is underway. Emerging market currencies are currently “two thirds on the way to hitting the bottom” according to Ray Dalio’s Bridgewater. So with the EM crisis soon reaching a crescendo and with …
Reweighing your income strategy
Reweighing your income strategy will be required if investors want to meet their retirement goals, according to a recent piece in the New York Life Investments. Indeed, as Darren Winters points out, the unstoppable surge in negative yields reached $17 trillion in August, courtesy of the central banks unprecedented monetary easing experiment. Put simply, reweighing …
Industrial action
As Darren Winters explains, industrial action could become a rising trend going forward. The value-added share between labor and capital is an endless tug of war. Capital and labor have a love-hate relationship, both need each other but they have opposing interests. Capital seeks to maximize profits by reducing input costs, meanwhile, labor wants its …
Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)
Exchange traded funds (ETFs), the bricks of investing, help the likes of Ray Dalio build structurally sound investment portfolios which outperform the indexes or achieve alpha returns in all market conditions. So then what are Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs)? ETFs are a basket of securities traded on the exchange, like stocks. ETFs can be dedicated …