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Sample Investment Management Support Services

  • What are the common biases of investors and registered investment advisors (RIAs) that leads to their underpeformance?
  • Why star fund managers beat the market in certain periods but not in others?
  • When is passive investing is better or worse than active investing? When to use each or both?
  • Why all-weather portfolios fail?
  • Why valuation models fail? How to fix them?
  • Why factor investing models fail? How to optimize them?
  • Why quant trading models fail? How to build better predictive models?
  • Why back-testing mislead traders and investors?
  • What is the optimal time-frame and stop-loss to use for trading and investing?
  • Why common fund practictioner common practices, indicators, and popular academic papers lead to under-performance?
  • How best to use multi-player game theory in investing and trading?
  • How can macro-quant-mental models improve win/loss trade ratio and manage risk?
  • Analyzing and comparing Wall Street's top performing investment funds and their investing strategies, include Warren Buffet, Ray Dalio, Bill Ackman and others. What are their key investment strategies and decision-making criteria? What are the lessons learned from the successes and failures of top money managers?
  • Why do so many respected money managers and investment funds underperform major market indices? What are the flaws in their investment decision models?
  • When does technical analysis work? When it does not work?
  • When does fundamental analysis work? When it does not work?
  • When does economic analysis work? When it does not work?
  • What markets and what assets to invest in the next decade? What are the risks and rewards?
  • Why do economic and market forecasts fail? How can analysts improve forecasting and valuation accuracy? 
  • What does the future hold in boom or bust cycles?
  • Was the financial crisis of 2008 a black swan event? Or was it a predictable event? How investors can avoid catastrophic loss and capture the upside near the bottom of 2009 without predicting the event?
  • Why did most professional investors, economists, academics, Nobel-prize winners, and intelligence agencies fail to predict the financial crisis? Why did only a few experts manage to foresee the subprime mortgages / housing bubble and its impact on the economy? How accurate are their market forecasts? Can investors rely on their future predictions?
  • Do markets move in random patterns? Is it impossible to time the market? When does market timing work and when it does not work? Can market timing methods be improved?
  • What is BEV stock analysis model? How to optimize BEV  stocks investing system to meet your risk-reward objectives?
  • How to accurately assess the risks and rewards of different stock investment types?
  • How to optimize portfolio diversification for maximum returns and minimum risks?
  • How do capital markets work? How do they impact investment decisions?
  • How does monetary policy affect capital flows and asset pricing?
  • What are the key investment lessons from Bernie Madoff, Enron, WorldCom and others?
  • What are the key investment lessons from historical asset bubbles and busts?
  • What are the key investment lessons from historical recessions?
  • What are the key investment lessons from the financial crisis of 2008?
  • What are the key investment lessons from sovereign and private debt defaults?
  • Can investors develop a system of investing and trading that will beat the market over the long term?
  • Why, when and how the growth investment strategy succeed and fail?
  • Why, when and how the value investment strategy succeed and fail?
  • Why, when and how the contrarian investment strategy succeed and fail?
  • Why, when and how the trend investment strategy succeed and fail?
  • Why, when and how the momentum investment strategy succeed and fail?
  • Why, when and how the large-cap stocks investment strategy succeed and fail?
  • Why, when and how the mid-cap stocks investment strategy succeed and fail?
  • Why, when and how the small-cap stocks investment strategy succeed and fail?
  • What is the most optimal asset allocation for the highest possible growth with lowest possible risks?
  • How will the rise of activist investors impact the stock market valuations and movements?
  • What is the best way to deal with market volatility?

Investment Research: Sample CIO Insights, White Papers and Interviews:

  • The Truth About Bitcoin and Its Future: BTC Hype vs. Reality - Ask for a copy
  • Are Markets Rigged or Are You Confused or Both? - Ask for a copy
  • Why The Fed Economists and Most Investors Were Wrong About 2022 Inflation and 2023 Recession - Ask for a copy
  • The 2022 Inflationary Bear Market Risks and SPX Bottom at 3600 - Ask for a copy
  • The Next Financial Crisis: Debt, Currency, and Derivatives Risks - Ask for a copy
  • The U.S. Economy Risks For The Next Decade 2007-2017 - Ask for a copy

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Notes: Role, Purpose and Conflict of Interest

The institute is a think tank and education organization. Our opinion is incidental to our profession. We are not an investment advisory or brokerage firm. We are not seeking outside investments. We do not manage external assets. We do not function as a rating agency.  We do not accept compensation from companies for review or rating purposes. Any recommendation for or against any asset, trading strategy, buy or sell action is done for an educational purpose only. The expressed opinions should not be considered as an endorsement for or against any asset, company or investment firm. Markets are hyper-dynamic and our forecasts continuously change with changing data; they are used as an input to complex risk management and valuation decision models. Despite past success in economic forecasting and research portfolio designs, we do not provide any guarantee for future forecasts or performance.

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