Understanding the Needs of Wealth Management Clients in Asia
Singapore investors are looking for customization, real-time analytics and reporting, and digitized information delivery from...
More Than 1 in 3 S&P 500 Companies Have Withdrawn EPS Guidance for 2020
A number of companies are having difficulty providing an estimate for future earnings due to the uncertainty surrounding the...
Consumers Shift Spending Away from Clothing, Furniture, and Travel
Economic data shows sharp contractions at clothing and furniture retailers, while a record low number of Americans plan to...
Sharp Drops in Natural Gas Production
This commentary revisits implied oil shut-ins across several basins based on updates to our modeled daily gas production.
The issuance of corona bonds would help to create much-needed solidarity in a region where euroscepticism has been on the rise...
Back-testing Studies on the FactSet Short-term Risk Model During the COVID-19 Outbreak
It became a common theme post-2008 that VaR is not able to capture extreme events. This is only true if VaR is assessed based on...
COVID-19 and the Mortgage Market
Here we outline policy changes related to the U.S. mortgage market and changes to our mortgage prepayment model to address the...
ESG themes are long-term, but some can emerge with sudden force. We are watching five trends we believe will unfold in 2020 to...
S&P 500 Forward P/E Ratio Rises Above 20.0 as EPS Estimates Continue to Fall
Between March 23 and May 7, the forward 12-month P/E ratio for the S&P 500 has risen from 13.1 to 20.4.
S&P 500 Earnings Season Update: May 8, 2020
The blended earnings decline for the first quarter is -13.6%, which would mark the fourth earnings decline in the past five...
While recent bear markets all had different causes and characteristics, there are some consistent signals that we can glean from...
Be Aware, Adapt, Innovate--or What We Learn from Mandelbrot, Noah, and Covid-19
A year before the breakout of COVID-19, I published an article which discusses how to transform investment uncertainty and risks...
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