Year: 2011

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 17, 2011 |

On Hotspots and their Place in the Emerging and Frontier World: Part I, the Cases of Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan

We’ve mentioned on several occasions in previous newsletters and commentaries our positive growth outlook for numerous emerging economies in the near future and the growing interconnectedness among them. This isn’t […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 5, 2011 |

The Mark of Debt: Hysteresis in Municipal Bonds in the Saga of Bubbles

We have written briefly before (July 2010 commentary) on the dangers of the municipal bond market. In this commentary we make the claim that the housing sector leaves a mark of hysteresis […]

By: John E. Charalambakis | On: January 3, 2011 |

A WATERSHED MOMENT FOR INVESTORS

Yesterday we ran performance reports for our portfolios1.  Our composite return across all portfolios was 18.11%.  For comparison, our aggressive portfolio’s aggregate return was 35.95%.  Annualized, these figures would exceed […]