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Maybe something to do with finance. It's an article for my school's econ dept's quarterly student newsletter, can be on anything I want, related to economics in some fashion (last quarter it was property rights of smoking, loosely of course). The article is a page to a page and a half, single spaced.

So, I'm only taking one econ class this quarter, a special topics in finance course; as part of the course we have to write a short (five page) paper, so I'm thinking about basing my article off of the research I do for that (separate writing, of course, but maybe a similar area or idea).

Suggestions? Zenmervolt, Hector, and WinstonSmith, I expect to hear from you!

Cheers!
Nate

One thing is, for that finance course we're writing the paper on some aspect of the mutual fund industry - anyone know of a good current topic (maybe after hours trading?) that would be interesting to a bunch of econ majors but not necessarily finance people?
 
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long term effects of high governement debt on retirement age of US workers

analyze economic factors in presidential election years and how they corolate to sitting presidents chances of re election

compare/contrast poverty levels in the US to our major trading partners (like China)
 
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Lifer
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Originally posted by: HotChic
Gas prices?
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Man, that moderator must've really been interested in making suggestions for my article!

I've considered it...
 
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fredtam

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Do it on the economic impact of low carb diets. Chicken prices going up and today doughnuts are falling.
 
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Ness

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Originally posted by: upsciLLion
Talk about how legalizing drugs would better the US economy.
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Are you in high school, or first year or two of college?

Article like this are not only a dime a dozen, but have not offered any substantally different ideas than they did 20 years ago. This is the most played-out and boring topic ever.

Researching one of the ways your school has managed to waste money is always one to draw attention.
 
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Hector13

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Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: axelfox
The current crackdown on fund managers
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That's actually exactly what I was thinking of.
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if you want to write about something a bit different from all the crap out their about "market timing" and "late trading" with mutual funds, consider writing about stale prices used for mutual funds. A lot of funds use stale prices when calculating their NAVs, thus allowing investors a legal way game the system. This is espcially tough for funds that invest in global securities (where NAV may be stricked before some markets close) or bond funds (where some issues simply don't trade enough to up-to-date "market prices").
 
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Originally posted by: Hector13
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Originally posted by: axelfox
The current crackdown on fund managers
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That's actually exactly what I was thinking of.
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if you want to write about something a bit different from all the crap out their about "market timing" and "late trading" with mutual funds, consider writing about stale prices used for mutual funds. A lot of funds use stale prices when calculating their NAVs, thus allowing investors a legal way game the system. This is espcially tough for funds that invest in global securities (where NAV may be stricked before some markets close) or bond funds (where some issues simply don't trade enough to up-to-date "market prices").
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We actually just talked about that on Thursday. Might be interesting to do some digging on the subject.
 
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rodgerthedodger

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Originally posted by: Orsorum
Maybe something to do with finance. It's an article for my school's econ dept's quarterly student newsletter, can be on anything I want, related to economics in some fashion (last quarter it was property rights of smoking, loosely of course). The article is a page to a page and a half, single spaced.

So, I'm only taking one econ class this quarter, a special topics in finance course; as part of the course we have to write a short (five page) paper, so I'm thinking about basing my article off of the research I do for that (separate writing, of course, but maybe a similar area or idea).

Suggestions? Zenmervolt, Hector, and WinstonSmith, I expect to hear from you!

Cheers!
Nate

One thing is, for that finance course we're writing the paper on some aspect of the mutual fund industry - anyone know of a good current topic (maybe after hours trading?) that would be interesting to a bunch of econ majors but not necessarily finance people?
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hedge funds the new investment banking? for $ hungy joes.
 
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rodgerthedodger

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Originally posted by: Orsorum
Maybe something to do with finance. It's an article for my school's econ dept's quarterly student newsletter, can be on anything I want, related to economics in some fashion (last quarter it was property rights of smoking, loosely of course). The article is a page to a page and a half, single spaced.

So, I'm only taking one econ class this quarter, a special topics in finance course; as part of the course we have to write a short (five page) paper, so I'm thinking about basing my article off of the research I do for that (separate writing, of course, but maybe a similar area or idea).

Suggestions? Zenmervolt, Hector, and WinstonSmith, I expect to hear from you!

Cheers!
Nate

One thing is, for that finance course we're writing the paper on some aspect of the mutual fund industry - anyone know of a good current topic (maybe after hours trading?) that would be interesting to a bunch of econ majors but not necessarily finance people?
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or quantitative approaches to mean reversion arbitrage or quant approaches to range trading financial commodities.
 
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rodgerthedodger

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Originally posted by: rodgerthedodger
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Maybe something to do with finance. It's an article for my school's econ dept's quarterly student newsletter, can be on anything I want, related to economics in some fashion (last quarter it was property rights of smoking, loosely of course). The article is a page to a page and a half, single spaced.

So, I'm only taking one econ class this quarter, a special topics in finance course; as part of the course we have to write a short (five page) paper, so I'm thinking about basing my article off of the research I do for that (separate writing, of course, but maybe a similar area or idea).

Suggestions? Zenmervolt, Hector, and WinstonSmith, I expect to hear from you!

Cheers!
Nate

One thing is, for that finance course we're writing the paper on some aspect of the mutual fund industry - anyone know of a good current topic (maybe after hours trading?) that would be interesting to a bunch of econ majors but not necessarily finance people?
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or quantitative approaches to mean reversion arbitrage or quant approaches to range trading financial commodities.
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yeah mutual funds. could you short them using synthetics and make a risk adjusted alpha?

or mutual funds, or moderately leaveraged indicie allocation investment strategy?
 
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Hector13

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Originally posted by: rodgerthedodger
Originally posted by: rodgerthedodger
Originally posted by: Orsorum
Maybe something to do with finance. It's an article for my school's econ dept's quarterly student newsletter, can be on anything I want, related to economics in some fashion (last quarter it was property rights of smoking, loosely of course). The article is a page to a page and a half, single spaced.

So, I'm only taking one econ class this quarter, a special topics in finance course; as part of the course we have to write a short (five page) paper, so I'm thinking about basing my article off of the research I do for that (separate writing, of course, but maybe a similar area or idea).

Suggestions? Zenmervolt, Hector, and WinstonSmith, I expect to hear from you!

Cheers!
Nate

One thing is, for that finance course we're writing the paper on some aspect of the mutual fund industry - anyone know of a good current topic (maybe after hours trading?) that would be interesting to a bunch of econ majors but not necessarily finance people?
Click to expand...

or quantitative approaches to mean reversion arbitrage or quant approaches to range trading financial commodities.
Click to expand...

yeah mutual funds. could you short them using synthetics and make a risk adjusted alpha?

or mutual funds, or moderately leaveraged indicie allocation investment strategy?
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you can definitely short closed end funds -- wouldn't need any synthetics. Though I can't see much reason for it unless you really think badly of a mananger?
 
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