The BlondeMoney team has spent the past couple of weeks on the ground in Westminster, talking to MPs, attending Select Committees, listening to speeches and attending dinners. We saw nothing to dissuade us from our core view that No Deal is a clear and present danger.
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1. No one knows what is going…
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This time last year we got the start of the signal that lower and lower volatility wouldn’t be with us forever, with the biggest one-day percentage move in the VIX and the subsequent immolation of the linked inverse ETN, the XIV. Today, the VVIX, which measures the change in the VIX (that is, the volatility of…
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Helen Thomas CFA
Helen Thomas CFA has almost two decades of experience working in financial markets for banks and fund managers. Most recently she was Head of Currency Alpha at SSGA. She was also an adviser to the former Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne and Director of the Financial Markets Reform Programme at Policy Exchange. She’s a Board Member of CFA UK and a Freeman of the City of London.
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