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Cumberland Advisors Market Commentary offers insights and analysis on upcoming, important economic issues that potentially impact global financial markets. Our team shares their thinking on global economic developments, market news and other factors that often influence investment opportunities and strategies. Our readers appreciate its timeliness, depth of analysis, and quality of research.
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sun September 15, 2019
Bloomberg tweeted early this morning: “BREAKING: Saudi Aramco executives are having an emergency meeting after 10 explosive drones attacked the heart of the kingdom's energy industry.” (https://twitter.com/business/status/1172876148419829760?s=11)
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Sat September 14, 2019
We wrapped up our Labor Day Camp Kotok with a round of excellent on-the-record discussions that we're happy to share with you here.
Author(s): Patricia Healy, CFA | Fri September 13, 2019
The Rise of Separately Managed Accounts – 2019 Update Cumberland has utilized separately managed accounts (SMAs) to execute its fixed-income strategy since its inception in 1973, long before SMAs were popularized in the early 2000s. The reasons for managing money in this fashion are the same…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Thu September 12, 2019
It’s that date again. Those of my economist friends who escaped the South Tower, as I did, still share special bonds with each other. We were attending the annual conference of NABE (National Association for Business Economics) which, by coincidence, was at the World Trade Center in New York…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Tue September 10, 2019
Why we bought stocks before Labor Day weekend
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Mon September 9, 2019
The 50-person gathering at Leen’s Lodge encompassed diverse political views, financial and economic specialties, and asset class focused from cannabis to currency trading, real estate to debt of all types, stock markets and ETFs, derivatives and futures, and more. Over $1 trillion in managed…
Author(s): William Witherell, Ph.D. | Thu September 5, 2019
“A constitutional outrage” exclaimed the traditionally neutral House of Commons Speaker, John Bercow. “An affront to democracy … an intolerable attempt to silence Parliament,” declared the editorial in the August 29th Financial Times. These were reactions to Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s…
Author(s): | Wed September 4, 2019
Brazil is poisoning the planet and now posing a growing existential risk. The country’s elected leader, Jair Bolsonaro, has suspended or rescinded environmental protection rules and favored his cronies in the agricultural and logging industries, who are exploiting the country’s resources with…
Author(s): David R. Kotok | Fri August 30, 2019
“Camp Kotok,” is a gathering of prominent economists, wealth managers, traders, heads of research, pundits, financial luminaries and a few journalists that meet each year in a remote part of Maine. Held for a long weekend in the summer, we fish and engage in vigorous debates running the gamut…
Author(s): | Thu August 29, 2019
“Americans will always do the right thing — after exhausting all the alternatives.” Winston Churchill? Abba Eban? An Irishman? Apocryphal? For a history of the quote, see: https://quoteinvestigator.com/2012/11/11/exhaust-alternatives/ .