361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing

361 Capital portfolio manager, Blaine Rollins, CFA, previously manager of the Janus Fund, writes a weekly update looking back on major moves, macro-trends and economic data points. The 361 Capital Weekly Research Briefing summarizes the latest market news along with some interesting facts and a touch of humor. 361 Capital is a provider of alternative…

The Greatest Basketball Story of All Time

Penny Hardaway (college squad player): They just thought, “Okay, they got these young guys to give us a little warm-up. We’re going to beat them up a little bit, sign a couple autographs, and then everybody go on about their merry way.” They didn’t know how talented we really were.

The Casino is Open!

Your favorite insolvent-but-for-the-grace-of-god-and-the-taxpayer banks are still in the game, player. Don’t you worry about that…

The thing about Italy…

The thing about Italy is that it’s really important to the Euro experiment that things don’t get out of hand there.  It’s huge economically, bigger than Spain and just behind France. The good news is that Italian banks, unlike Spanish ones, are in decent shape – they didn’t have the same construction and real estate…