Young and Invested

Expert Interview – Puru Saxena

In our first edition of Expert Interview, Y&I is very excited to bring you the insights of Puru Saxena, founder of Puru Saxena Wealth Management (http://www.purusaxena.com/). Based in Hong Kong, Puru has his finger on the pulse of the East markets, and provides investment advice and asset management for numerous clients. As a highly regarded [...]

Memory of a Crisis

A few prominent investment banks wiped, a crashed housing market, oil prices plummeted, investors running from the market bears, people hoarding the last remaining gold, American automakers in serious peril … sounds like a financial hurricane went through in 2009, doesn’t it?
Looking back at it now, one question still glows in embers – who was [...]

When Correlations Collide

If you pick up any finance textbook, it’ll tell you that international diversification is good. International diversification is good because the returns on stocks in different stock markets, in different regions, are supposed to be un-correlated, hence falling markets in one region can be offset by growth in other regions. The key phrase in that [...]

Blogger Interview – Babak

In this edition of Blogger Interview, Y&I is very excited to bring you the insights of Babak, one of the brightest young financial bloggers online, and a highly  followed blogger on Seeking Alpha, with more than 4,600 regular readers. He shares with us his opinions on some of the major issues confronting investors in this [...]

Discount Rate Past not Predictor of Future

A few months ago, we were warned by the Fed that the borrowing rate will increase with “greater force than is customary”… then they waited a few long months to act on the warning. So should we, as investors, be surprised? Not really, we expected it. But in order to appreciate the effects of the [...]