by Tina Byles Williams | Jul 10, 2018 | FIS Foresights
FORESIGHT | FIS VIEWS Crowded trade risks, while often unappreciated by investors, can be real and significant. They can be viewed as a byproduct of the immense proliferation of index and index-like products. While these products meet important investor needs, their...
by Tina Byles Williams | Apr 17, 2018 | FIS Foresights
FORESIGHT | FIS VIEWS Our latest Foresight’s research paper, explores our assertion that President Trump’s objective is not a full-blown trade war, but an attempt to renegotiate the U.S.’s trade package with China and to stymie China’s goal of...
by Tina Byles Williams | Apr 6, 2018 | FIS Foresights
FORESIGHT | FIS VIEWS This month’s Foresights report, ” Profiting from MSCI Reclassifications: Oases of Alpha or Mirages in the Desert?”, is our critique of the CFA’s Institute’s Financial Analyst Journal article, “Investing in the...
by Tina Byles Williams | Jan 11, 2018 | FIS Foresights
FORESIGHT | FIS VIEWS ‘Chinese Tech Stocks – Is the Party Over?’ discusses whether the boom in Chinese tech stocks will last. In 2017, Chinese tech stocks soared, essentially doubling in value during the year and outperforming the MSCI Emerging Markets (EM) Index by...
by Tina Byles Williams | Nov 2, 2017 | FIS Foresights
FORESIGHT | FIS VIEWS I beg your pardon, I never promised you a rose garden…” — chorus from Lynn Anderson’s 1970 chart-topping country hit We thought we’d use the latest FIS Foresights to introduce our findings from a 5-year research effort to evaluate the...
by Tina Byles Williams | Sep 25, 2017 | FIS Foresights
FORESIGHT | FIS VIEWS In this issue, we discuss what may be the key to predicting the future of the world’s developed and developing economies: the intersection of demographics and technology. We hope our commentary will ignite further conversation around how some...