Founder-CEO & Chief Analyst, Real Estate Foresight

Robert Ciemniak

Founder-CEO & Chief Analyst

Real Estate Foresight

Since 2012, REF has been helping investors with market research, project due diligence, and strategy development. This has ranged from detailed assessments and estimates on distressed developers' project portfolios to market due diligence on specific projects to macro-level questions linked to demand for commodities. The unique combination of the housing markets and developer data from data partner China Index Academy in Beijing, primary research, and technology-powered alternative data collection from public sources result in a valuable content set used in REF analytics and reports.

Predictive Analytics for China Property

Thematic (Sector/Industry)

We have updated our currency impact tables 'post-Brexit' for USD, EUR, JPY, AUD, GBP and CNY. We make a simple assumption that a property investor uses his/her domestic 'investor' currency to buy assets in 'investment' currency at a spot rate on a given start date and then repatriates that back into investor currency on a given end date. Change in the value at end date vs start date in investor currency represents the approximate currency impact, not adjusted for any transaction or other costs…

We have updated our currency impact tables 'post-Brexit' for USD, EUR, JPY, AUD, GBP and CNY. We make a simple assumption that a property investor uses his/her domestic 'investor' currency to buy assets in 'investment' currency at a spot rate on a given start date and then repatriates that back into investor currency on a given end date. Change in the value at end date vs start date in investor currency represents the approximate currency impact, not adjusted for any transaction or other costs…

60 Days After Brexit - Currency Impact Tables For International Property Investors

Leading Independent Investment Research, Morningstar, Inc.

Morningstar

Leading Independent Investment Research

Morningstar, Inc.

Morningstar, Inc. is a leading provider of independent investment research in North America, Europe, Australia, and Asia. We offer an extensive line of products and services for individual investors, financial advisors, asset managers, and retirement plan providers and sponsors. 

Morningstar provides data on more than 500,000 investment offerings, including stocks, mutual funds, and similar vehicles, along with real-time global market data on more than 16 million equities, indexes, futures, options, commodities, and precious metals, in addition to foreign exchange and Treasury markets. Morningstar also offers investment management services through its investment advisory subsidiaries, with more than $180 billion in assets under advisement or management as of June 30, 2015. We have operations in 27 countries.

Download the Morningstar Fact Sheet : http://corporate.morningstar.com/US/documents/MarketingFactSheets/AboutMorningstarFactsheet.pdf

<ul><li class="p1">Our early read on the buying and selling activity of our top managers during the second quarter uncovered a few nuggets.</li><li class="p1">New-money purchases were somewhat anaemic. Not a single name that showed up as new-money purchases during the second quarter were bought by more than one of our top managers. </li><li class="p2">Conviction buying was not focused on any one sector. Although the purchases that took place during the period were fairly well spread out among the financial-services, healthcare, technology, and consumer cyclical sectors, most of the buying was focused on high-quality names with defendable economic moats—exemplified by a greater number of wide- and narrow-moat names.</li></ul>Analysts: Eric Compton &amp; Greggory Warren

Our early read on the buying and selling activity of our top managers during the second quarter uncovered a few nuggets.New-money purchases were somewhat anaemic. Not a single name that showed up as new-money purchases during the second quarter were bought by more than one of our top managers. Conviction buying was not focused on any one sector. Although the purchases that took place during the period were fairly well spread out among the financial-services, healthcare, technology, and consumer cyclical sectors, most of the buying was focused on high-quality names with defendable economic moats—exemplified by a greater number of wide- and narrow-moat names.Analysts: Eric Compton &amp; Greggory Warren

Our Ultimate Stock-Pickers Top 10 New-Money Purchases

Chairman, sgtradex

Tan Chin-Hwee

Chairman

<blockquote>“Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.” - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, 1923</blockquote>My first day at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amaranth_Advisors" target="_blank">Amaranth </a>could have been my last.After my Masters at Yale back in 2003, I joined this American multi-strategy Hedge Fund in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was my very first experience working in the rough-and-tumble world of a trading floor in the global hedge fund industry. I rescinded my trading position back in…

“Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.” - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator, 1923My first day at Amaranth could have been my last.After my Masters at Yale back in 2003, I joined this American multi-strategy Hedge Fund in Greenwich, Connecticut. It was my very first experience working in the rough-and-tumble world of a trading floor in the global hedge fund industry. I rescinded my trading position back in…

10 Years' Anniversary of the Collapse of Hedge Fund Amaranth - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

Asia Economist and CEO, Centennial Asia Advisors

Manu Bhaskaran

Asia Economist and CEO

Centennial Asia Advisors

At Centennial Asia Advisors, we tell it like it is. We have no vested interests, no need for a China wall, and no reason to skew our outlook any other way. With over 30 years experience covering Asia’s political economy, you can be sure our conclusions and analyses are based on the unadulterated facts. Through years of fine-tuning our research methodologies, we deliver a quality of macroeconomic analysis few other houses can match.

Centennial Asia Advisors is an independent research and advisory firm that works with governments, multilateral institutions, financial firms and leading MNCs.

Economic Policy and Strategic Advisors

Macroeconomics

<ul><li>At a time of growing unease about political and economic risks in major economies, and continued uncertainty over the strength of the US recovery and its implications for the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, investors have flocked into assets in Asian EMs.</li><li>The question is whether this perception of the relative safety of Asian emerging markets will remain now that valuations in Asian markets have expanded so much. We think a moderation of such capital inflows is forthcoming.</li></ul>

At a time of growing unease about political and economic risks in major economies, and continued uncertainty over the strength of the US recovery and its implications for the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy, investors have flocked into assets in Asian EMs.The question is whether this perception of the relative safety of Asian emerging markets will remain now that valuations in Asian markets have expanded so much. We think a moderation of such capital inflows is forthcoming.

Information Technology Consultant

Ishita Jain

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece titled Blockchain in the Financial Services Industry with the aim of shedding some light on this new and upcoming technology. The discussions ensued seeking clarity on the concept of blockchain and how it can actually be applied to financial services. It seems that while there is ample documentation available, much of it is indecipherable to those new to this concept. Consequently, this piece is meant to demystify the blockchain concept which should help the readers understand potential applications and comprehend insights written by my peers.

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece titled Blockchain in the Financial Services Industry with the aim of shedding some light on this new and upcoming technology. The discussions ensued seeking clarity on the concept of blockchain and how it can actually be applied to financial services. It seems that while there is ample documentation available, much of it is indecipherable to those new to this concept. Consequently, this piece is meant to demystify the blockchain concept which should help the readers understand potential applications and comprehend insights written by my peers.

United States

Bank of Montreal, doing business as BMO Financial Group, is a Canadian chartered bank which operates throughout the world.  The Bank offers commercial, corporate, governmental, international, personal banking, and trust services. Bank of Montreal also offers full brokerage, underwriting, investment, and advisory services.

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60 Days After Brexit - Currency Impact Tables For International Property Investors

We have updated our currency impact tables 'post-Brexit' for USD, EUR, JPY, AUD, GBP and CNY. We make a simple assumption that a property investor...

Robert Ciemniak

Our Ultimate Stock-Pickers Top 10 New-Money Purchases

Our early read on the buying and selling activity of our top managers during the second quarter uncovered a few nuggets. New-money purchases were...

Morningstar, Inc.

10 Years' Anniversary of the Collapse of Hedge Fund Amaranth - Reminiscences of a Stock Operator

“Speculation is a hard and trying business, and a speculator must be on the job all the time or he'll soon have no job to be on.” - Reminiscences...

Tan Chin-Hwee

Will Capital Still Flow into Asian EMs?

At a time of growing unease about political and economic risks in major economies, and continued uncertainty over the strength of the US recovery...

Manu Bhaskaran

Blockchain & Bitcoin 101

A few weeks ago, I wrote a piece titled Blockchain in the Financial Services Industry with the aim of shedding some light on this new and upcoming...

Ishita Jain

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