Category: Bonds
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“never let a crisis go to waste”
This video highlights the emergence of catastrophe bonds, or cat bonds, as a lucrative investment opportunity in the world of Planet Finance. Cat bonds are designed to cover the damage caused by future disasters that traditional insurance companies cannot handle. The video discusses how complex computations and data analysis are used to calculate the probability…
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Public vs. Private
Ray Dalio’s thoughts on the ongoing transfer of wealth….the link below is worth looking at just for the charts The economy is not reacting to the Fed’s tightening in the usual way, as evidenced by the data in the charts. The shift in wealth from the public sector (central government and central bank) and government…
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Oaktree’s new CEO
Armen Panossian (Co-CEO of 160B fund Oaktree Capital, now a subsidiary of Brookfield) discusses his new role, transaction volume, and partnerships in the private lending universe, particularly in real estate and corporate lending. He mentions liquidity in the market is significantly lower, with less trading volume and new issuance in high-yield bonds and senior loans.…
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2 Broke Everyone
*when you control the printing press (and there is sufficient demand)…you can do anything you want*
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Rubenstein on Real Estate
David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-chairman of Carlyle Group, believes that the biggest investment opportunity over the next 2 to 3 years lies in the discounted real estate debt market, specifically in large commercial office buildings in major cities. Rubenstein acknowledges the challenges facing some cities, such as public relations issues and declining real estate prices,…
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Dalio’s World
Ray Dalio and Thomas Friedman discuss China’s Confucianism way of thinking and how it affects China’s foreign policy. China views itself as a family and its country as an extended family. Confucianism is a top-down, hierarchical philosophy based on strict parenting. They focus on mutual respect between those who are more powerful and those who…
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Fed Day
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/fed-expected-to-skip-a-june-rate-hike-but-signal-more-in-the-future-141346398.html The Fed’s benchmark interest rate stands in a range of 5%-5.25%, the highest level since September 2007. As part of its most aggressive rate hiking campaign since the 1980s, the Fed has increased the target range for its benchmark interest rate by 5 percentage points since March 2022.
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Dalio Says STAGFLATION
Dalio Says STAGFLATION Ray Dalio discusses how the problem with the US’s current debt crisis is that the central banks and the commercial banks will have solvency concerns due to government debt holdings. He highlights the trade-off between raising the debt-to-income ratio and balancing interest rates for creditors rather than debtors. He adds that the…