Recent content by kiers

Ironically Wall Street can't help being Wall Street: Some Bear Risk Factors: (1) Risk Factors are there: like Steinhoff in the leveraged lending universe whereby over $400 mn in syndicated lending by famous banks, was backed by equity (!) in Steinhoff itself! They call it "margin" lending, but...

You remember that movie "Limitless"? There was a quote, not to be found in public( i checked web ), where Bradley Cooper's character soon sours on the massive amount of time/brainwork spent on devouring the business press and financial data, and he goes (i don't know exact wording) "Who wants to...

any big difference in Std Dev of (R -- Rf) vs Std Dev of R alone? we are supposed to use the former? also is there a good measurement for S&P 500s current (2017 year end YTD) sharpe ratio?