Pioneering Portfolio Management – Book Of The Month

Pioneering Portfolio Management is a book where David Swensen, Yale's portfolio manager, provides his insight on portfolio management. Under his 23 year tenure at Yale, Swensen added $20 billion to Yale's endowment. In this week's blog post, I will talk…

Asset Backed US Corporate Bond Investment

As volatility returns in the US stock market, investors become risk averse and seek safer investments such as bonds. Since most of the developed countries in the world, including Japan and many European countries, offer negative interest rates, investors have…

Repo Rate Spikes, And The Fed Starts Buying T-Bills. What Does That Mean?

The US Federal Reserve announced on Friday, October 11, 2019, that it will buy $60 billion of treasury bills (T-Bills) each month to build its reserve. Jay Powell, the Federal Reserve Chairman, said that this decision was made to address…

How do Foreign Investments affect the US Economy?

United States is a Superpower, and everyone wants to be a part of this wealth creating machine. In order to fully utilize this machine, it is important to know the impact that foreign countries have on the US Economy. At…