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Articles by Tim Quast
Comment: IR needs a new name for the new century
Apr 01, 2020 'Investor relations' is too limiting – today's IROs are much more The capital markets have been practicing investor relations for a half-century, as evidenced by the 50th anniversary lapel pins given out at last year’s NIRI Annual Conference (and if you’re not wearing one, why not?) in Florida.
The 2010s in review: A decade of market structure upheaval
Earlier this month I was at the NIRI Senior Roundtable in Santa Barbara, which members must have a decade in the profession to join. Investor relations practitioners qualifying now would have been on the job less than a year when the Flash Crash hit. Remember that? On May 6, 2010 at 2.32 pm Eastern Time, the stock market came unhinged. For 36 minutes stocks screamed groundward and the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 999 points. Accenture traded for a penny.
FLASHBACK FRIDAY: Unraveling the ETF Bubble
Bubble? What bubble? Just three years it appeared that exchange-traded funds (ETFs) prices were climbing through the stratosphere as lack of alpha in plain vanilla equities coupled with scarcity ETF product made the sector hot. To many, a bubble was a forgone conclusion and some in the industry were defensively positioning themselves from impending doom.
Stop cheering for this rally! The stock reset is coming
As the Brits fled the European Union, so did money from stocks. But after a stomach-curdling free-fall, U.S. equities boomeranged back — a weird financial-markets mulligan. Pundits cheered. Enough with the cheering. It's important that we, as responsible investors, find out why the market bounced back — not just hug it for rising when there is no apparent reason.
How arbitragers profit off mom and pop investors
Stock brokers claim mom and pop investors have never gotten better deals. But how do we know? There’s no TrueCar for brokers (you entrepreneurs, that idea is free, and you’re welcome). Dig around for ways to rate your broker and you’ll excavate enough arcana to glaze the eyes of a village full of grandmas with online brokerage accounts.
How Arbitragers Profit Off of "Mom and Pop" Investors
How Arbitragers Profit Off of "Mom and Pop" Investors
On IEX, let the market decide
After all, if "buy-and-hold" money is the heart of capital formation, aren't fast markets contradictory? Structurally, markets are fast because rules require all exchanges and brokers in the national market system to connect electronically, and then the stock exchange with the best price for both a bid to buy and an offer to sell gets to match the trade (or at least price it). So the market is a footrace to set prices. What idiot thought everyone should be forced to share customers and prices?
A prolonged sell-off would be dangerous for ETFs
Dollar volume from just the top 100 U.S.-traded ETFs in 2015 (of 1,100 equity-focused ETFs) was a staggering $16.2 trillion. Combining dollar-flows at public stock exchanges with trading in market centers regulated as brokers (sometimes called dark pools), nearly $70 trillion changed hands in 2015. So, 23 percent of all the money came from trading in 100 ETFs – let's call them the top 1 percent of those roughly 8,000 securities.
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