Complacency We began 2012 utterly dejected. Apart from the US, most regions from Europe to Asia to Latin America faced slowing growth. That said central bank pump priming managed to sustain global equity markets and 2012 turned out to be a good year for risk assets despite some mid year volatility. We began 2013 optimistic

  Traditional investing is all about asset allocation based on macro economic outlook and then drilling down to security selection. That’s a bit too fuzzy for my liking. Investing capital should be a more disciplined activity since it puts that capital at risk. The risk should always be well compensated by the prospect of returns.

  The Volcker Rule, Basel 3. Dodd-Franck and all the rules and regulations will not help banking stability until banks are allowed to fail. As long as banks are not allowed to fail, managers will continue to be engage in willful or ignorant risky behavior. Too much regulation also sacrifices efficiency. The way to ensure

Time stamping…

  US monetary and fiscal policy 2014 – 2017. I believe it is inevitable that QE tapering will happen. This is driven by the need to control the growth, and one day shrink, the Fed’s balance sheet which is currently at 4 trillion USD and growing. The dangers of maintaining a balance sheet of this