Category: Authored by Amin Haji
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06.17.22 – Is Your Matrix Unstable? Perhaps It Should See a Shrink
As an investor building a portfolio, your primary concern should be understanding the relationships between various assets within an investment universe. By seeking to understand these relationships, you’ll gain insight into the effects of various changes (like adding a new asset or changing overall asset weightings) on the aggregate risk and return of a portfolio.…
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05.20.22 – Carte Blanche: Revisiting SPACs
A year ago, I wrote an Invested piece that cautioned investors about the misalignments in an increasingly popular investment vehicle called a Special Purpose Acquisition Company (SPAC). For those who are unfamiliar, SPACs are basically publicly traded shell companies which exist solely to merge with private companies allowing these private companies to get access to…
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03.11.22 – “what’s the downside”
What’s the Downside? Author: Amin Haji — Senior Vice President, Investment Research Investors should be familiar with the concept that risk and returns go hand in hand. Generally, to be able to expect higher levels of return, one must take on more risk. However, unlike return which is easily quantified in terms of dollars or percentages, risk…
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