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Vanderbilt Avenue Asset Management
Emad A. Zikry - Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Inverted Yield Curve Indications and Positioning
Yield Curve Inversion
Wonking Out: Why the Dollar Dominates
Is Larry Summers Really Right About Inflation and Biden
Could the SECs New Regs Kill Prime Money Market Funds_ _ Barrons
FRB - Predicting the Yield Curve Inversions that Predict Recessions -Part 1
FRB - Predicting the Yield Curve Inversions that Predict Recessions -Part 2
St. Louis Fed - Shale Gas and -Oil Case Study
VAAM-SBA 7(a) Loan Program
Who’s Afraid of Budget Deficits?
Monetary policy and risk management at a time of low inflation and low unemployment
Inflation Measures and Their Differences
The Strength of the Consumer Balance Sheet and How it Relates to ABS
The Ever Elusive Estimation of R-Star
Short Duration is a Sensible Investment in a Rising Interest Rate Environment
Rise of Household Debt
Will the Recent Shake-Up Alter Policy at The Fed?
Corporate Bonds
The Poverty of Stimulus
New Fed Chairman
Super Seasoned MBS
Automobile ABS
Trump MIP Cut Reversal
Money Markets Are Facing The Most Tumultuous Quarter
Bitcoin: An Introduction
Investing in SBA Pools
REPOs Technical Difficulties
Rate Hike Probability
Money Market Reform Update
Time Series
Covered Bonds
Implications of Recent Money Market Fund Reform Passage
Productivity and Demographics
Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) Statistics Definitions
Real Estate Bubbles and Weak Recoveries
United States of America Rating Downgrade
ETFs
Opportunities in Non Dollar Fixed Income Securities
Overview of Sukuk
Bore you into a Sound Night's Sleep?
Monetizing the Debt
A Review of Government Securitization Programs
Immunized Portfolios: An Alternative to GICs
Funding for the Cost of Nuclear Decommissioning
Traditional Private Placements
Portfolio Theory vs Portfolio Practice
Planned Amortization Class Bonds
Interest-Only & Principal-Only Securities
Credit Default Swaps
CSOs
Option Arms
Calculating the Implied Default Rates from CDS Spreads
Wyeth
Mortgage Dollar Rolls Defined
Hybrid ARMs
Federal Funds Futures to Forecast Federal Reserve Moves
Mortgage Dollar Rolls
Mutual Fund Scandal
Quantitative Credit Risk Modeling
Hybrid MBS
Adjustments to Lehman Brothers
Time to Prefer Preferred
Rate Reduction Bonds
Tracking Common Stocks
Small is Beautiful: Journal of Portfolio Management
Opportunity: Actively Managed Investment Universes
Dogma of the Day
The Journal of Fixed Income
Presidential Politics, Stocks, Bonds, Bills, and Inflation
Economics and Portfolio Strategy
Preventing Deflation
Pangloss and Cassandra, meet Aenesidemus
Bonds: Not Boring, Beautiful
Better Risk/Return in Home Equity
Treasury Actions Stabilize the 'Repo' Market
High Yield Market
Mortgage Subordinated Trust Securities
144A Securities
Evaporating Liquidity or Where Have All the Dealers Gone?
Trading The Mortgage / Agency Basis
Glossary
CMO Glossary
Repurchase Agreements
Investment Opportunities in GSE Debt Securities
Bush, Bonds & The Foreign Exchange Rate
Structural Overview (CBOs' and CLOs')
Residential Subordinate Mortgage Backed Securities
Convexity
Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities
Subordinated Credit Card Receivables
Trust Originated Preferred Securities
Private Label Mortgage Securities
Net Interest Margin
The Federal Housing Authority (FHA) Project Market
Position Paper: The CPI Calculation
Option Adjusted Spread
Synthetic Security Combination
Introduction to CMOs'
Currency Hedged International Fixed Income Investment
Yield Curve Analysis
The Fed's New Policy
Structural Issues in the Economy
Investing with Options
Recent Developments in Retirement Health Care Benefits
Bank Crisis
Debt Crisis
Bonds: Not Boring, Beautiful
Introduction To CMOs
Investment Opportunities in GSEs
Managing Interest Rate Risk by Managing Duration
Mortgage Dollar Rolls
Investment Opportunities in GSEs
Overview of Sukuk
Proper Cash Flow Discounting for Pension Liabilities
Recent Developement in Retirement Healthcare Benefits
Restoring Confidence In Banking Sector
Sell Everything and Take a Vacation
Sports, Markets and Mortality
The 80 Year Problem
The Feds New Policy
The Market Impact of the Proposed U.S. Treasury Debt Buyback
Treasury Supply and Debt Buyback Redux
United States of America Rating Downgrade
Utility Sector PCG
Market Sentiment Press Release 1/24/21
Forbes - Vanderbilt Ave Asset Management
Yield Curve Strategies