Protectionism: the current situation
Last week both Emanuel Macron and Angela Merkel rushed to Washington to meet Donald Trump
and discuss with him about the freezing of the tariffs on European aluminium and steel, imposed by the US administration and starting on May 1st, 2018. They claimed that tariffs lead to protectionism and slowly but truly to a real trade war which is very perilous for the global economy. ​

Piling on debt: an alarming déjà-vu
Expansionary monetary policies following the financial crisis have produced a global rise in the level of indebtedness that, considering the impending end of monetary loosening policies, appears more alarming than ever. ​Recently, one of the most authoritative voices to raise the problem was the International Monetary Fund with the April edition of Fiscal Monitor, in which it reported that public and private sectors are now more indebted than they were at their peak in 2009.

Sustainable Investing: a virtuous spiral - April 13, 2018
Nowadays, investors have plenty of choices about how to invest their savings. Today we will analyze sustainable investments trying to understand if this ethical choice provides also economic benefits for investors’ savings.

‘Bitcoin 2.0’ - The benefits and risks of state-backed cryptocurrencies - April 9, 2018
In the past few years, there has been a great increase in the awareness level of peer-to-peer concept of private digital currencies, also called cryptocurrencies. In the meantime, more and more experts of the financial sector have openly expressed their skepticism and criticism towards some of its currently existing forms, the bitcoin, with a market capitalization of roughly 168 billion dollars, being the largest one of them.

Socially Responsible Investments: do well by doing good - April 2, 2018
When people think about finance they generally indirectly give for granted the dichotomy between profit and sustainability. In reality, we can find a strong link between the two and this link is called SRI, or socially responsible investment.
​But what is an ethical investment in practice? 

Is the student loans market going to be the next bubble? - March 20, 2018
​After 10 years since the housing market crash, most of the world economies look on their way to grow again. Nonetheless, the credit market has not stopped to be a reason for concern. There is a category of credit in the US, indeed, which have increased at such a pace to become second only to mortgages as a source of household debt, exceeding even credit card loans: student loans and other forms of Education related debt.

Volatility Apocalypse – Chronicle of a Black Swan - Feb 11, 2018
On Monday February 5th, 2018 in the market happened what most traders thought impossible: the VIX index suddenly jumped 138%, its biggest jump ever, with US equity markets down 6% in the worst slide since 2011. Why is this so important?
​The importance of this event stays all in the VIX, widely and incorrectly known as the “fear gauge” of the market, which suddenly awakened from a sleep lasted for years…. and it seems it got out of bed with the wrong foot.

Is it still worth investing in EM bonds? - Dec 14, 2017
Not only US, 2017 has been an incredible year for Emerging Markets too.
In particular, investors have seen the best return on high yield bonds in 6 years - 10% on local currency bonds and 7.6% on dollar-denominated ones - while European funds operating in EM debt have increased their masses by $63.4 bn.

Fintechs and Banks: to fight or not to fight? - Dec 2, 2017
The advent of financial technology companies and its implications are at the centre of the discussions surrounding the banking sector. On November the 15th our association organized a conference dedicated to the digital disruption in the financial sector.

The Short Volatility Trade. A Gold Mine or A Russian Roulette? - Nov 28, 2017
Someone think it is the gold mine they were waiting for while others think that it is the most dangerous trade in the world. Explaining the Short Volatility Trade.

The Future of the Bitcoin - Nov 18, 2017
On Thursday November 2nd, Bitcoin crossed for the first time the bar of 7,000 dollars. The virtual currency had reached $5,000 last month and was still worth $1,000 in December 2016. These last days, the price of the volatile digital currency has been supported by CME Group’s projects to launch futures contracts.

The rise of the hybrid giant SoftBank - Nov 12, 2017
SoftBank, the multinational company founded by visionary investor Masayoshi Son, is silently beating everybody’s expectation in terms of returns, thus appearing as a profitable opportunity for investors.

Is a new financial crisis ahead? - Nov 6, 2017
More than a decade has passed since the 2007, the year that deeply changed the economic and financial world and the way we look at it

The tricky interplay between the automotive industry and industrial commodities - Nov 5, 2017
Industrial metals have been one of the best performing asset class in 2017, partly buoyed by the strongest global growth since the financial crisis.

Index Funds vs Stock Pickers: a tough challenge - Oct 11, 2017
In 2007 Warren Buffet bet that over the following ten years a Vanguard fund that tracked S&P 500 index would beat five hedge funds chosen by Protégé Partners, a firm that focuses on emerging hedge fund managers.