Marcell BalázsUber should have done a direct listing (05/18/2019)Last week I wrote that 2019 was a big year for IPOs. By then Lyft, Pinterest and Zoom, three important unicorns, had already gone public…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
Marcell BalázsLitigation finance and the boon of capitalism (08/23/2018)Many times the self-interest of certain actors in the economy can have unintended benefits on society. This is absolutely the case with…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
Marcell BalázsHow finance could save the planet (02/10/2019)People often come out and complain about how bad companies and banks are. They do not pay enough their workers or they focus too much on…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
Marcell BalázsVacation hedge (01/16/2019)You are the head of the derivatives desk at a big investment bank. Derivatives trading is risky, which means that your job is at jeopardy…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
Marcell BalázsWhat programming taught me about investing — An Object-Oriented approach to investing (01/09/2019)When I started getting interested in stock markets, I tried some stock simulators to see how things work in practice. As I was discovering…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
Marcell BalázsRetail investors should stay away from private markets — Private markets would lose their appeal if…Uber has recently been presented with an IPO offer: allegedly, the company could be taken public at a $120bn valuation. However, it would…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
Marcell BalázsDriverless, not flawless (09/21/2018)Tempe was famous for being the plot of Uber’s self-driving truck project. Driverless cars were roaming around the streets, making the…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
Marcell BalázsPassive corporate governance?I have talked repeatedly about why large asset managers with passive funds should avoid voting on shareholder meetings. Passive funds…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
Marcell BalázsRadical Markets: the most versatile book of the year (08/31/2018)I do not really think I have ever had so mixed feelings about a book. Radical Markets left me a bit confused. Not because it is not…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
Marcell BalázsPraise factor investing — Quantitative methods help us ignore the market noise and reduce…More than a year ago I got hold of Joel Greenblatt’s “The Little Book That Beats the Market”. Despite its title, it doesn’t flood readers…Aug 23, 2019Aug 23, 2019
