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Building a good credit strategy
Derivative contracts, in particular credit-linked notes on corporate bond indices, have a variety of uses: to gain synthetic exposure, as an arbitrage tool, to effect overlay strategies and to invest cash balances efficiently. The growing popularity of JECI and Trac-X as well as the exchange traded funds on the iBoxx Euro Liquid Corporate Index and [...]
The problem of financial complexity
Venture capital requires a wide grasp of ideas and concepts. To determine if gizmo A is a good investment you have to know: What it does and what is does not do. What other gizmos are currently available and what they do and what they do not do. All the other gizmos being developed. What [...]
Impulsive Spending Issues
They carry cash. I’ve said it before, and I’ll say it again: cash evaporates. If you’re like most people, you probably don’t guard your cash very closely. In fact, many people act like the cash in their pocket is “extra” money, because it’s not part of their account balance. Keep cash out of your pocket [...]
No barriers to impulsive spending
There’s an old saying that for some people, “money burns a hole in their pocket.” In other words, if you’ve got money in your pocket, all of a sudden you find all kinds of ways to spend it. Sadly, if you didn’t have money in your pocket, you would have never treated yourself to some [...]
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