Part II of the February 29th Debt Ratings Conference featuring a presentation on Issuer Paid Research vs. Investor Paid Research presented by Mark Adelson, EMD-Senior Research Fellow at Standard and Poors, Bill Hassiepen, Vice President at Egan Jones Rating Services, Jim Nadler, President and COO of Kroll Bond Ratings, and Michael McNiven, SVP and Portfolio Manager [...]
Read moreThis commentary was written by Bill Witherell, Cumberland’s Chief Global Economist. He joined Cumberland after years of experience at he OECD in Paris. his bio is found on Cumberland’s homepage, www.cumber.com. He can be reached at Bill.Witherell@cumber.com. Last year’s series of disturbing shocks to the global economy and the willingness of global investors to take [...]
Read moreby Michael Drury, Chief Economist, McVean Trading & Investments, LLC Taylor Somerville, CFA, Senior Economist, McVean Trading & Investments, LLC Vadim Sinitsyn, Associate Economist, McVean Trading & Investments, LLC Historically, economists have found that when a country’s per capita GDP exceeds $3,000 good things happen. Wealthier households begin to invest in durable goods, like automobiles [...]
Read moreFebruary 29th Conference held at the Federal Bank of Philadelphia. Part One includes the Welcome by GIC Chair, Bill Dunkelberg, and the first panel on The Ratings Agencies Today, consisting of Jim Allen, Head of Capital Markets Policy for the CFA Institute, John Carbone, Principal at Vanguard, Natalie Cohen, Senior Analyst at Wells Fargo, and [...]
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Paul McCulley says working at bond giant PIMCO was like being in Camelot. [...]
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