Fordham University Wins NYSSA Investment Research Challenge
A team of students from Fordham University edged out the competition to take top honors at the 8th Annual Investment Research Challenge. The students from Fordham—Thomas Messineo, Alex Ng, Jonathan Ball, and Ravi Misra—will now move on to the 4th Annual Global Investment Research Challenge in Hong Kong. Messineo, the team captain, and Ball took some time out of their preparations to answer a few questions. |
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Career Center sponsored by
Our Take: Reciprocal Gestures Mold Bankers' Future Pay Deals
by Jon Jacobs
The olive branch President Obama just handed Wall Street on compensation opens a new phase in a painful effort to reconcile the legitimate expectations of hard-working financial services professionals with the harsh dictates of public opinion.
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Currency Indexing: The Forward Rate Bias as an Alternative Beta
By Carl Beckley and James Wood-Collins, Directors, Record Currency Management and Mike Bruno, Head of Fixed Income and Alternatives, FTSE Group
Although currency is often referred to as an asset class, the arguments to treat it as such have not been compelling enough to draw serious attention from the global institutional investor community. One possible reason for this is the absence of a universal view on the "beta" or market return available from currency investment.
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Added Transparency in Securities Lending
The recent financial crisis heightened awareness of the securities lending market; however, as an over-the-counter, historically opaque area of the financial markets, relatively little information about the securities lending market is publicly available. With the launch of the S&P Securities Lending Indices, S&P Indices has created a useful tool for a variety of analytical purposes including the identification of potential new trading, hedging, and investment opportunities. Click here to read the white paper. |
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Book Review
by William A. Hayes
The Masters of Private Equity and Venture Capital: Management Lessons from the Pioneers of Private Investing. by Robert A. Finkel. McGraw Hill. 2010.
This book is a unique opportunity to be with the masters of two major investment sectors which are characterized by big profits, and at times by big risk. |
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Entrepreneurial Tip Corner
Will Your Business Be Able To Outlive You?
by Michael Herz, CPA, MBA
Many of us feel like we will be around forever and want to keep our businesses for that long, because we enjoy them so much. Others wouldn’t mind selling their business and either retiring or doing something else tomorrow. Either way, business succession planning is critical to assure that you are prepared for either eventuality. |
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New Members
Welcome NYSSA's newest members! |
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