Patrick Boyle On Finance

Patrick Boyle

This podcast is all about quantitative finance and financial history. Subscribe to hear about financial markets, derivatives, and how investors use quantitative tools from statistics and corporate finance theory. Included are interviews with some of the most interesting thinkers in finance. Occasional longer form financial documentaries, open up fascinating elements of financial markets history. Patrick Boyle is a quantitative hedge fund manager, a university professor, and a former investment banker. To contact Patrick visit http://onfinance.org Find Patrick on YouTube at: https://www.youtube.com/c/PatrickBoyleOnFinance DISCLAIMER:This podcast is not affiliated with any financial institution. The information provided is for entertainment purposes only and does not constitute financial advice. Those seeking investment advice should seek out a registered professional in their home jurisdiction and confirm their credentials on your national regulator's website. Patrick Boyle is not responsible for any investment actions taken by viewers and his content should not be used as a basis for investment or other financial decisions.

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Oct 30, 2021 · 13 min
Ending The Tragedy of The Commons
Send us a texthttps://teamseas.org/ The Tragedy of the Commons is an economic idea made popular by the American ecologist Garrett Hardin, who used the analogy of ranchers grazing their animals on a common field. Individual ranchers will seek to add additional livestock, to increase their profits. The benefit of adding additional animals accrue to the rancher alone, while the costs are shared. The tragedy is that ultimately the field will be destroyed, due to overconsumption. ...
Oct 28, 2021 · 7 min
Meme Coins & The Elon Markets Hypothesis
Send us a textIn this video we look at meme coins and learn about the Elon Markets Hypothesis. Patrick explains why he is all in on Shibu Inu.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3cjsyPFCorporate Finance: https://amzn.to/3fn3rvC Patreon Page: https://www.patreon.com/PatrickBoyleOnFinanceVisit our website: www.onfinance.orgFollow Patrick on Twitter Here: https://twitter.com/PatrickEBoylePat...
Oct 26, 2021 · 15 min
Do Companies Pay For S&P Index Membership?
Send us a textDo Companies Buy S&P500 Membership? A new working paper attempts to figure out why some companies make it into the blue-chip stock market index.In recent years there has been a huge shift away from active asset management and towards passive, index-tracking funds. The indices that these funds follow have in turn gained enormous power, becoming gatekeepers to the flow of trillions of dollars.Names like S&P Dow Jones, FTSE Russell and MSCI are the biggest index providers a...
Oct 21, 2021 · 21 min
Everything You Thought You Knew About GameStop Was Wrong!
Send us a textThe SEC published its report on GameStop $GME this Monday, which focuses on the January 2021 trading activity of GameStop Corp (GME), the most famous of the "meme stocks." Because the meme stock episode raised several questions about market structure, the staff report also provides an overview of the equity and options market structure for individual investors.The SEC Report on GameStop: https://www.sec.gov/news/press-release/2021-212Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trad...
Oct 18, 2021 · 12 min
Bitcoin on The Big Board - The New Bitcoin ETF
Send us a textThe first bitcoin-linked ETF is scheduled to make its NYSE debut officially on Tuesday morning.The new ETF from ProShares, will track the bitcoin futures market and trade on the NYSE under the ticker “BITO.”According to ProShares a multitude of investors have been eagerly awaiting the launch of a bitcoin-linked ETF after years of efforts to launch one, BITO will open up exposure to bitcoin to a large segment of investors who have a brokerage account and are comfortable buying st...
Oct 16, 2021 · 11 min
Biggest Trading Mistakes!
Send us a textA small London based crypto asset trading platform called DeversiFi got quite a shock two weeks ago when it mistakenly paid out a $24m fee to a large crypto miner. Transferring crypto deposits generates a fee, known in the industry as a “gas fee”, to compensate miners for the computing energy used to verify transactions on the blockchain. DeversiFi should have paid out around $5, but instead transferred 23.7 million dollars due to an error in their code.A few fat finger errors l...
Oct 13, 2021 · 9 min
Evergrande Audit Failure!
Send us a textPricewaterhouseCoopers earned over forty million dollars in fees auditing China Evergrande and signed off on the accounts presented to them by management for all of those years. PWC is likely to face criticism over the level of push back they gave to management over accounting policies that could have shown warning signs about the company’s financial health many years before the collapse.Around the world, auditors have faced criticism when companies have collapsed, and aud...
Oct 12, 2021 · 12 min
Could Evergrande Impact Global Property Prices?
Send us a textChina’s crackdown on property developers threatens the London property market.Evergrande, the world’s most indebted developer, sparked fears across global markets as it missed a crucial interest deadline on its offshore debts. This week, another developer, Fantasia, defaulted on an offshore bond. A property consultant close to London’s development market was contacted in the wake of the Evergrande crisis by a UK regulator with concerns about the risks of contagion in London. “Th...
Oct 9, 2021 · 22 min
The Pandora Papers - Everything You Need To Know!
Send us a textRevelations from nearly 12 million leaked confidential financial records have thrown light on the concealed wealth of powerful public figures around the world. How do they hide their money, and why is this information important? The Pandora Papers were released this week showing that Jordan’s King - Abdullah II amassed $100 million in property including homes in The United States and London. An alleged mistress of Vladimir Putin, Russia’s leader managed to covertly buy a lu...
Oct 9, 2021 · 9 min
Another Evergrande? Fantasia Holdings Defaults!
Send us a textOn the heels of Evergrande’s debt crisis, there are increasing signs of stress in China’s real estate market after Fantasia Holdings failed to make a bond payment.Fantasia Holdings, a Chinese developer of luxury apartments missed $315 million in payments to lenders on Monday, sparking fears that financial strains in the country's outsized property sector are spreading beyond the troubled Evergrande conglomerate.Fantasia Holdings, a Shenzhen-based developer, missed repaying $206 ...
Oct 5, 2021 · 14 min
Are Rising Energy Prices The First Sign Of Greenflation?
Send us a textOver the last month the news has been dominated by stories of energy shortages around the world. China has seen major industrial output cuts caused by power outages over the last year, European gas prices are trading near record highs and the UK is reeling from the political fallout of a surge in energy prices. US oil prices rose to the highest level in seven years after OPEC and its allies declined to accelerate plans to increase crude production, snubbing calls from the White ...
Sep 30, 2021 · 17 min
What Does China's Crypto Ban Mean? Will Other Countries Follow Suit?
Send us a textIn the latest of a series of crypto crackdowns, Chinas central bank announced on Friday that overseas facilities offering cryptocurrency services inside China are “illegal”. It warned that any local staff who help these businesses operate, or even provide marketing and technical support, “shall be investigated”. This is the most direct crackdowns by a major regulator against “offshore” exchanges that have proliferated as interest among traders has boomed in Bitcoin, Ethereum, Do...
Sep 23, 2021 · 16 min
Evergrande & The Chinese Economy
Send us a textThe financial woes of Evergrande the once-mighty Chinese property developer highlight a showdown between two competing objectives for China's Communist Party. They aim to force China's private sector away from speculative and risky lending practices while avoiding a financial meltdown and the collapse of the property sector, in which more than 70% of the nation's urban wealth is locked up.Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn.to/3eerLA0Derivatives ...
Sep 22, 2021 · 9 min
Evergrande Wealth Management Products - A Ponzi Scheme?
Send us a textIn an interview with local media, an Evergrande financial adviser said the products were a type of “supply chain finance”. While the money from retail investors may in years past have gone to its suppliers, the Evergrande executives in Shenzhen receiving retail investors said this was no longer the case.One of the executives of Evergrande’s wealth management division said Hubei Gangdun was just a shell company. “Proceeds from the Wealth Management Products have been used to brid...
Sep 21, 2021 · 9 min
Evergrande Crisis Intensifies
Send us a textThe liquidity crisis at Chinese property developer Evergrande shook global markets this morning with stocks falling in Asia, Europe and New York.The S&P 500 fell 2.1 per cent in afternoon trading, while the Nasdaq Composite slipped 2.6 per cent. The Vix, which measures expected volatility on the S&P, hit 26.5 — around its highest level since May.Monday’s sell-off came after shares in Evergrande, the world’s most indebted property developer, closed 10 per cent lower in Ho...
Sep 18, 2021 · 9 min
Evergrande - China Faces a Potential Lehman Moment
Send us a textThe implosion of Lehman Brothers, 13 years ago this week, showed the world how the collapse of a single company can send shockwaves around the world. Echoes from that event are resounding today as a massive Chinese property developer teeters on the brink of default.The collapse of Evergrande Real Estate Group - China's second-largest property developer with $310 billion of debt outstanding, could set off a chain reaction that spreads overseas.Wall Street is keeping a...
Sep 16, 2021 · 15 min
Investing In Collectibles - Are NFT's Digital Beanie Babies?
Send us a textThe Beanie Babies Bubble is a particularly entertaining story which highlights all the hallmarks of a mania. Mass delusion. Speculation. Out of control expectations. The herd mentality.Right now, it might appear that we are in another collectibles boom, in February this year, a Michael Jordan basketball card sold for $738,000 at auction. The exact same card had traded for more than half a million dollars less just a few weeks earlier. A Klon Centaur guitar effects pedal is being...
Sep 9, 2021 · 13 min
The Difference Between Trading And Investing
Send us a textIn today's podcast Patrick discusses the famous Warren Buffett quote “calling someone who trades actively in the market an investor “is like calling someone who repeatedly engages in one-night stands a romantic.” from his 1991 letter to investors.Topics covered are: what is the difference between trading and investing? Is one better than the other, and does it make sense to discourage short term trading? Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: https://amzn....
Sep 2, 2021 · 23 min
Billionaires Who Lost Everything
Send us a textAccording to Forbes Magazine there are 2,755 billionaires in the world today. The top five industries where they made their money are Finance, Technology, Manufacturing, Retail and Healthcare. It is rare to become a billionaire, but even more unusual to reach that level and then lose everything, but it is not unheard of. Today we’ll look at ten one-time billionaires who later went bankrupt, and one whose net worth fell from eight billion dollars to two million dollar...
Aug 26, 2021 · 16 min
Do Central Bankers Care About Rising House Prices?
Send us a textWhy don’t central bankers care about rising asset prices?For most people their greatest expense is housing. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, Americans spend almost 40% of their take home pay on shelter, this might lead you to ask - why aren’t home prices included in measures of inflation? And should they be? Is real inflation much higher than is being reported in the CPI because of asset price inflation? Patrick's Books:Statistics For The Trading Floor: h...