The Future of Equity Research: Meet the New Analyst

"With the explosion of data and analytics, the sell-side analyst role continues to be transformed. Those who can best leverage emerging big data tools will generate the most alpha."

"Equity research has marginally evolved with investment styles and trading strategies over the past couple of decades. The days of primary fundamental research, particularly on the sell side, faded long ago. Most analysts don’t have the gumption or the time."


http://tabbforum.com/opinions/the-future-of-equity-research-meet-the-new-analyst

The Banking Industry's Biggest Problem isn't Bonuses or Market Share

"The problem with bonuses in the financial industry is not about their levels – if someone makes a huge contribution to the economy, he or she should be richly rewarded. The main problem is that these bonuses are given to people for doing the wrong things well – things that harm the economy in order to enrich the shareholders, the top managers of banks and other financial firms.

So the real question is how we make banks and other financial firms pursue the right goals, rather than how much people should be paid, whether in bonuses or salaries. And the only way to make them pursue different goals from those they pursue now is to change the rules of the game."


http://www.cepr.net/index.php/op-eds-&-columns/op-eds-&-columns/the-banking-industrys-biggest-problem-isnt-bonuses-or-market-share?utm_source=CEPR+feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+cepr+%28CEPR%29

Minimum wages: the effects on employment and labour-force turnover

"Economic research finds little evidence in support of the hypothesis that an increase in minimum wages significantly affects employment – either positively or negatively. This column discusses a study of the impact of minimum-wage changes on turnover rates. Minimum-wage increases are associated with a lower probability that a job will end, and with a lower probability that an unemployed person will find work. The former effect is established only for newly hired workers. Increases in the minimum wages are also associated with more stable jobs for all low educated workers. Thus, the trade-off between fewer jobs with higher wages and more job stability versus easier access to jobs should be taken into account in the minimum-wage policy debates."


http://www.voxeu.org/article/minimum-wages-and-jobs-new-evidence

Wiadomość nr 300 opublikowana na Grupie.

Urodzony w złym roku

Polecam poczytać opis pewnego badania dotyczącego znaczenia momentu rozpoczęcia oszczędzania (w emeryturę lub ogólnie). Nie pozostaje nic, jak tylko życzyć szczęścia.

"Celem jest porównanie wyników kilku inwestycji o identycznym czasie trwania, ale rozpoczętych w innym momencie.
Założenia wyglądają następująco:
- inwestorzy o identycznych dochodach na koniec każdego roku odkładają jednorazowo 15% swoich rocznych zarobków do funduszu emerytalnego,
- czas trwania tych inwestycji jest identyczny dla wszystkich: 30 lat,
- zyski i stan kapitału podlegają normalnym rynkowym wahaniom zależnym od bess i korekt rynkowych – jednym słowem zmienności; w tym przypadku liczona odchyleniem standardowym wynosi 20%,
- w długich okresach spodziewana średnioroczna składana stopa zwrotu to 5%;
- jedyną różnicą pomiędzy inwestorami jest czas rozpoczęcia inwestycji, zależny po prostu od wieku."


http://blogi.bossa.pl/2014/01/21/urodzony-zlym-roku/

Banks Don't Lend Out Reserves

"Firstly, here’s a short explanation of bank lending. Under normal circumstances, deposits and loans are more-or-less equal across the banking system as a whole. This is because when a bank creates a new loan, it also creates a new balancing deposit. It creates this “from thin air”, not from existing money: banks do not “lend out” existing deposits, as is commonly thought."

"When the Fed buys private sector assets from investors, it not only creates new deposits, it creates new reserves. This is because a new deposit (liability) in a bank must be balanced by an equivalent asset. When banks create deposits by lending, the equivalent asset is a loan. When the Fed creates deposits by buying assets, the equivalent asset is an increase in reserves, also newly created. So it does not matter how much lending banks do, if the Fed is creating new deposit/reserve pairs by buying assets from private sector investors then deposits will ALWAYS exceed loans by the amount of those new reserves."


http://www.forbes.com/sites/francescoppola/2014/01/21/banks-dont-lend-out-reserves/

Banalny wpływ OFE na spółki giełdowe

"Bardzo lubię w ekonomii to, że większość banalnych i „oczywistych” prawd okazuje się nieprawdziwych w zetknięciu z rzeczywistością. Ta banalna prawda jednak faktycznie jest prawdziwa. Naprawdę na giełdzie świetnie zarabia się na akcjach spółek, które kupują fundusze emerytalne. Stosownych wyliczeń dokonałem po wykryciu w PAP dwóch tabelek ze spółkami, w których OFE w 2013 najbardziej zwiększyły i najbardziej zmniejszyły zaangażowanie"

http://tvn24bis.pl/blog-rafala-hirscha,190/rafal-hirsch-banalny-wplyw-ofe-na-spolki-gieldowe,389987.html

Why is the Recovery so Agonizingly Slow?

"Recessions that are driven by a collapse of the financial sector, balance sheet recessions as they are known, are one of the most difficult types of recessions to recover from. That is because the collapse of the financial sector does great damage to the balance sheets of individual households. In the most recent recession, the typical household lost a considerable amount of home equity when the price bubble popped, stock values declined causing losses of retirement, education, and other types of saving, and widespread unemployment and underemployment caused households to use their accumulated saving just to survive month to month."


http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2014/01/14/Why-Recovery-so-Agonizingly-Slow

Refuting The Biggest "Recovery" Lies In Four Simple Charts

"US profits are growing, companies have underinvested and have no choice but to spend more on CapEx, and corporations have much less debt than they did during the crisis thanks to a massive cash build up."
"These are the generic go to explanations by soundbity talking heads for why the US recovery is gaining traction with US corporations, if not so much Joe Sixpack, and why companies are still cheap. There is one problem: they are all wrong.
As SocGen's Andrew Lapthorne shows conclusively, "US profits are not growing, companies are over not underinvesting (they may in fact have overinvested), and corporates are carrying more (not less) net debt than they were in 2009. It would appear that many believe the opposite to be true, yet corporate report and accounts data seems to say otherwise." But hey- stocks are at record highs, right, and the market is never wrong (except when it is), so who cares."


http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-01-17/refuting-biggest-recovery-lies-four-simple-charts

Crash: The Decline of U.S. Driving in 6 Charts

"Has the United States passed peak car? It's one of the more tantalizing questions that energy and urban-planning nerds are pondering these days. Ever since the recession, Americans have been driving less, getting fewer licenses, and using less gas. But is that just the work of the recession, or something more permanent? 
Over the past several months, Michael Sivak of the University of Michigan's Transportation Research Institute has released a series of short papers chipping away at the peak-car issue. They don't give us a definitive answer. But his findings, collected in a third study released this week, do a marvelous job illustrating the post-bubble decline of car buying, driving, and fuel consumption in the U.S."


http://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/11/crash-the-decline-of-us-driving-in-6-charts/281528/

Shares in emerging markets (map) - lekko, krótko i ciekawie

"In many emerging markets, the value of all the freely traded shares of firms that feature in the local MSCI share index (which typically tracks 85% of local listings) is equivalent to a single Western firm. Thus all the shares available in India are worth roughly the same as Nestlé;" 

Jest też porównanie dla Polski.


http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21594476-scarce?fsrc=scn/fb/wl/dc/scarcessharesemerginmarket#!

Common Myths About the Federal Reserve

"Few institutions invoke more emotion and mythology than global central banks.  And the Federal Reserve, being the central bank in the world’s largest economy, happens to garner a special amount of attention.  Unfortunately, not all of this attention is warranted and much of the understanding about this institution is misleading or incorrect.  This page will clarify some of the myths and misunderstandings about the Fed."


Inside the 'Black Box' of Sell-Side Financial Analysts

Polecam wszystkim zapoznanie się z najnowszą wersją dokumentu podsumowującego badanie ankietowe na 365 analitykach giełdowych pracujących po stronie sell-side (plik w pdf do pobrania). Przykładowo można znaleźć w badaniu odpowiedzi na pytania, jak często ankietowani kontaktują się z zarządami pokrywanych przedsiębiorstw, jak dany rodzaj uczestnika rynku jest ważny dla analityka (hedge fundy górą, klienci detaliczni na samym dole listy priorytetów) czy jak często korzystają przy wycenie z danych metod wyceny.


O tym samym raporcie pisał wcześniej Trystero (tylko link odnosił się do pliku pdf z marca 2013, ten jest z października 2013).


Podsumowania 2013

"Kilka ciekawostek i statystyk z okazji kończącego się roku."

"A jak wygląda na tym tle handel naszym złotym? No więc udział naszego PLN stanowi 0,7% globalnej wymiany na rynku pozagiełdowym (OTC – Over The Counter), w dolarach jest tego dziennie średnio 37,4 miliarda $ (przez 3 lata zrobiliśmy skok o 16,9%) . To mniej więcej połowa tego co handluje się na tureckim lirze czy 40% wymiany rubla. Niestety za tym idzie dość może zaskakujący rekord – aż 89% tego handlu PLNem odbywa się poza Polską. Z tego 54% przejął Londyn, a 14% USA, i plasują się te udziały powyżej średniej, gdyż dla emerging market np. udział Anglii wynosi ok. 30%."