…its rather large investment portfolio. Unfortunately, the portfolio managers inside the PBOC tell us that this will involve selling very large quantities of our US Treasury securities. Furthermore, they tell…

…defined contributions program involves aspects of risk beyond the portfolio risk that Mr. Conda discusses. But to be fair, my post focused on portfolio risk. Mr. Conda will be happy…

Thomas Brown advises against portfolio diversification James Glassman provides a review of “My Ten Rules” by Thomas K. Brown of Second Curve Capital. Apparently, these two are motivated by The…

…have in your portfolio, on your balance sheet — assets/instruments whose prices never change?” 4. Coins and currency. Physical tokens representing balance-sheet assets, which make it easy to transfer those…

…composition of the external assets and liabilities. The U.S. is “long equity, short debt,” with assets largely composed of foreign direct investments (FDI) and portfolio equity, and liabilities primarily in…

…the liabilities of emerging market countries from primarily debt (bonds, bank loans) to equity (foreign direct investment, portfolio) in the decades preceding the global financial crisis. We examine the determinants…

…the private student loan market is only about a tenth the size of the federal loan portfolio. The CBO goes on to discount the value of the federal loan portfolio…

…their reallocation matrices to transform residency-based holdings of securities as reported in the U.S. Treasury’s International Capital data and the IMF’s Coordinated Portfolio Investment Survey to nationality-basis holdings. Their results…

…age bracket. Portfolio-by-Age.xls (live.com). With the latest data, I have updated the chart again showing numbers and the amounts owed by age bracket and in total. Again as taken from…

…mortgaged the assets of more than three dozen community hospitals across the nation to finance a vast portfolio of luxury real estate and billionaire toys, might actually show up to…