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Michael Gayed

Chief Investment Strategist at Pension Partners, LLC
Michael A. Gayed, CFA is the Chief Investment Strategist at Pension Partners, LLC. As Chief Investment Strategist, Michael helps to structure portfolios to best take advantage of various strategies designed to maximize the amount of time and capital spent in potentially outperforming investments. ...more
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Rising Rates...Finally?
Monday, February 9, 2015 12:26 PM EDT
As we get closer to the European Central Bank actually beginning its bond buying through Quantitative Easing, it appears that fixed income investments may finally be vulnerable and rates may rise, at least in the near-term.
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ATAC Week In Review: The Future Is Not The Past
Monday, January 26, 2015 4:25 AM EDT
Stocks in the US had their first positive week of 2015 as investors cheered what was already known to be coming – Quantitative Easing from the European Central Bank.
In this article: FXE
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ATAC Week In Review: Volatility, The Phoenix, And Cassandra's Patience
Sunday, January 11, 2015 9:29 AM EDT
On the final trading day of 2014, the VIX index experienced it’s largest one day percentage advance in history, with seemingly no one noticing.
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Generating Alpha: The Recorded Presentation
Friday, January 2, 2015 8:37 PM EDT
Interested in proof that markets are inefficient?
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ATAC Week In Review: Pascal The Trader, And The Logic Of Faith
Sunday, December 21, 2014 2:39 PM EDT
The faithful are those who recognize the fact that the best strategies must by definition have a large number of false positives.
In this article: SPX
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ATAC Week In Review: Crashes In The Eye Of The Storm
Monday, December 15, 2014 4:46 AM EDT
About a month after the end of Quantitative Easing 1 in 2010, Treasuries began outperforming the stock market. By the time that leadership was over a few short months later, Treasuries outperformed the S&P 500 by 3000 basis points (30%).
In this article: SPX, VIX
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ATAC Week In Review: In Defense Of Diversification
Monday, December 1, 2014 6:05 AM EDT
Stocks are not hitting new highs. Only a particular index, the S&P 500, has that distinction. When reviewing sentiment surveys this weekend, I am struck by how extreme optimism has been relative to history when in fact the average stock is flat to down this year based purely on breadth.
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Week In Review: The Path Matters More Than The Destination
Monday, November 24, 2014 4:16 PM EDT
Whenever I see headlines that read “stocks hit new highs,” I tend to cringe. Stocks are not hitting new highs. A particular index, the S&P 500, is.
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ATAC Week In Review: Fear Lower Oil
Monday, November 17, 2014 3:19 AM EDT
Large-cap stocks held on to moderate gains as the average stock was flat to down in a week that on the surface looked uneventful, but from a sector standpoint had important movements take place.
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ATAC Week In Review: Anger From The Rearview
Monday, November 10, 2014 9:08 AM EDT
It is quite common for people to focus their entire lives honing in on their craft and profession, working tirelessly to build up a nest eggs through years of labor, only to spend a couple of minutes looking at their finances and understanding the investment management process.
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ATAC Week In Review: Volatility, Corrections, And The Vicious V
Monday, November 3, 2014 7:57 AM EDT
If someone has a strategy that tries to take advantage of a market anomaly, and signals are right every time, how do investors react to the hot hand? Simply put, they allocate assets to it.
In this article: SPX
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ATAC Week In Review: Vicious V, Or Potential W?
Monday, October 27, 2014 8:13 AM EDT
The underlying problem with this environment remains the disconnect between stocks and inflation expectations, now a global problem with Europe one shock away from Japan-style secular deflation.
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ATAC Week In Review: The Real Correction To Come
Monday, October 20, 2014 3:42 AM EDT
A volatile week for equity investors as small-cap stocks closed nicely positive, large-caps languished, the VIX popped and dropped, and Treasury yields collapsed, only to rise following the largest one day decline in rates since 2011.
In this article: VIX
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Everyone Is A Weak Hand
Monday, October 13, 2014 6:37 AM EDT
The real source of risk for equities remains potential panic selling to come in Junk Debt, punishing the bubble theme of searching for yield without regard for risk.
In this article: QQQ, IWM, SPY
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ATAC Week In Review: The Bull Of Buy Low Sell High
Monday, October 6, 2014 2:44 AM EDT
Excuse my frustration, but whenever someone claims that they “buy low, sell high,” I roll my eyes. I’ve been on the road for the better part of two months speaking with advisors, traders, and analysts presenting our award winning research to CFA and MTA chapters.
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Inching Towards The Great Epiphany
Sunday, September 21, 2014 6:56 PM EDT
Large-cap stocks made new all-time highs as emerging markets and small-caps failed to continue rolling momentum, at the same time the US Dollar surged.
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