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Lawler: Some Observations on the Federal Reserve’s Balance Sheet Wind-Down and Reinvestment “Strategy” (Still in Quantitative Easing Mode, Just Less So)

Calculated Risk

Most of these gains in Treasury and Agency MBS assets were funded with increases in very short duration interest-bearing Federal Reserve liabilities, mainly deposits of depository institutions (reserves) and Reverse Repos. By way of comparison, Treasury bills accounted for 35% of total Fed Treasury holdings at the end of 2006.

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MiB: Armen Panossian, Oaktree Capital Management

The Big Picture

This week, we speak with Armen Panossian , managing director and head of performing credit at Oaktree Capital Management , which has $179 billion in assets under management. He oversees the firm’s liquid and private credit strategies, and also serves as a portfolio manager within Oaktree’s global private debt and global credit strategies.

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Transcript: Maria Vassalou

The Big Picture

 The transcript from this week’s, MiB: Maria Vassalou, Goldman Sachs Asset Management , is below. And that led her to various jobs at Wasserstein Perella McKinsey’s Asset Management Group. And all these questions that I was trying to answer had direct applications to hedge fund strategies and portfolio management.

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Private Credit: A Surprisingly All-Weather Asset Class

Brown Advisory

Private Credit: A Surprisingly All-Weather Asset Class. Private credit has experienced a post-recession boom, but with rates rising steadily and default risk possibly increasing as well, some view the asset class with caution. Does the asset class still make sense in this environment? Thu, 11/08/2018 - 09:35.

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Why Portfolio Diversification is for the Ignorant Investor

Risk Management Guru

Why portfolio diversification is for the ignorant investor. This is often mentioned in the world of investing where clients trust their advisors to spread their money over a hundred stock funds among other asset classes such as bonds and commodities to protect their customers against risk. Harper, 2006. Works Cited.

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Does Risk Parity Actually Work?

Random Roger's Retirement Planning

The last couple of months we've been having a ton of fun looking at what are hopefully very sophisticated portfolios that involve terms like capital efficiency, return stacking and leveraging down (that term is a Random Roger original). Relying on certain cross asset dynamics that usually work always working is a bad bet. All for it.

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Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy

Brown Advisory

Conversation with the Portfolio Manager: Mid-Cap Growth Strategy achen Wed, 09/20/2017 - 16:43 Over time, the Brown Advisory small-cap growth team, led by Christopher Berrier and George Sakellaris, watched numerous successful investments compound and grow out of their investible universe. Q: Can you describe your investment process?