by Gregory

Who’s the next Sovereign Lemon? Who is the most vulnerable country this year? Everyone has been scrambling for data to assess the health of public finances of each country. And everyone comes up with its scorecard of countries most likely to face government debt funding problems.  Obviously, one has a lot of variables or metrics [...]

by Markus

Market Melange was leading the group of commentators to call for a more rational analysis of the Greek dilemma (In defense of Greece/ Feb 5th). In his FT Article “How markets attacked the Greek pinata” from last night, James Rickards spots another angle to the understanding of the market´s irrationality in evaluating Greece´s systemic-risk relevance. [...]

by Markus

FT is getting ready for the iPad wave. Its new service (launched on Feb 9th) allows readers to access summaries of business books. FT´s excerpt: “FT Press Delivers offers its new, controlled-portion content in the form of Elements and Shorts. Elements focus on one simple idea relating to work or life based on content from [...]

by Markus

When it was to decide which structure to select for the Twelve Smart Value Fund, I´ve chosen a German UCITS III domizilation. This was early 2008. At that time Hedge Funds and onshore  UCITS III was considered as odd couple and even renowned fund administrators faced difficulties in structuring vehicles of that kind. On Nov [...]

by Markus

Benoit Mandelbrot, a renowned Yale emeritus in mathematics, gave one of his rare interviews to the FT. His book  The Misbehavior of Markets is a classic, but his ruminations on risk, efficient markets and Louis Bachelier are always worth paying close attention to. He clearly highlights the fundamentally wrong assumptions that led to the theory [...]

by Jürgen

In order to prepare the FT WEC Energy Leaders Summit, Market Melange has decided to take the first step, by offering you every week its view on one of the core subjects of the summit. The goal is to provide a first analysis and allow you to open up the discussion.

by Markus

The train to semantic search algorithms gains speed. Google and Wolfram Alpha are dominating the news but also some niche players are seeing the light of day. One of them is the latest development of the Financial Times Group: FT Newssift: Newssift offers access to millions of articles from thousands of global business news sources. [...]

by James

The original GG that is, not MM’s, who is live and present, as demonstrated by his Weekly Wrap (see previous post). No, come back Gordon Gekko. I would usually avoid being so trite as to reference the FT (a great source, but who doesn’t know that?) yet, this article stands out. Read it to understand [...]