THE WisdomTree BLOG
Oil prices experienced one of the most volatile weeks in recent history, as energy agencies lowered their forecasts for the growth in oil demand next year. While a weaker demand story certainly played its part in this scenario, we believe the change in rhetoric on the supply situation took precedence over the sudden shift in sentiment.
Fixed income, as a building block in portfolio allocation, is viewed as a defence layer rather than a return driver. In this blog we consider income potential offered by this traditional asset class and look for ways to diversify fixed income exposure with the yield focused options.
Oil futures curves have been in backwardation for most of the past year, driven by perceived tightness in short-term supply. This could be enough to ensure that the oil futures curve remains in backwardation going forward. Here’s a closer look at current oil market supply and demand dynamics.
Investors are always chasing the possibility of outperformance. It is easy to look at the widely followed benchmarks and want something more. Academic research has indicated that certain factors have demonstrated a persistent ability to outperform market capitalization-weighted benchmarks over longer periods. Here, we explore some of those factors.
The Italian budget saga and sovereign debt ratings have produced a fair share of interest and heightened anxiety within the global bond markets about other Eurozone countries. In this blog we look back at how various Eurozone sovereign debt markets have behaved in this latest bout of uncertainty.
Silver has had a poor run in recent months. The ‘hybrid’ metal has come under pressure for several reasons: its strong correlation with gold has dragged it lower, while the sell-off in industrial metals has exacerbated market pessimism towards all metals. In this blog Nitesh Shah asks: what does the future hold for silver?
Futures contracts are the most common way to invest in commodities that one does not wish to take delivery of and store. In this blog we discuss potential ways to manage the risks and capitalise on the potential opportunities involved with investing in commodity futures.
WisdomTree developed a unique, dividend-focused approach to equity investing in 2006. The firm has since expanded this methodology to the global equity landscape, allowing investors to have broad-based strategies consisting solely of dividend-payers and increasing their income generation potential.
The single most important aspect of WisdomTree’s index methodology regards rebalancing. This is a process that refreshes the exposures of a given WisdomTree index do different factors that, over time, may lead to the potential for outperformance. Here, we discuss our most recent rebalance of the WisdomTree US Multifactor Index.
Aneeka Gupta
Associate Director of Research
Aneeka Gupta is Associate Director of Research at WisdomTree. Prior to the acquisition of ETF Securities in April 2018, Aneeka worked as an Equity & Commodities Strategist at the company. Aneeka has 13 years of experience working as a Research Analyst across a wide range of asset classes. In her current role she is responsible for conducting analysis for all in-house commodity and macro publications and assisting the sales team with client queries around products and markets.
Prior to ETF Securities, Aneeka began her career as an equity analyst at Bear Stearns International Ltd in London. She also worked as an Equity Sales Trader at Sunrise Brokers across US and Pan European Exchanges. Before that she worked as an Equity Derivatives Sales Manager at Mashreq Bank in Dubai.
Aneeka holds a Bsc in Mathematics from the University of Delhi and a Masters in Mathematics from Oxford University and is also a CFA Charterholder.
Prior to ETF Securities, Aneeka began her career as an equity analyst at Bear Stearns International Ltd in London. She also worked as an Equity Sales Trader at Sunrise Brokers across US and Pan European Exchanges. Before that she worked as an Equity Derivatives Sales Manager at Mashreq Bank in Dubai.
Aneeka holds a Bsc in Mathematics from the University of Delhi and a Masters in Mathematics from Oxford University and is also a CFA Charterholder.
Nitesh Shah
Director, Research
Nitesh is Director of Research at WisdomTree. Prior to the acquisition of ETF Securities in April 2018, Nitesh was a Commodities Strategist for the company. Nitesh has 16 years of experience as an economist and strategist, covering a wide range of markets and asset classes.
Before joining ETF Securities, Nitesh was an economist covering the European structured finance markets at Moody’s Investors Service and was a member of Moody’s global macroeconomics team. Before that he was an economist at the Pension Protection Fund and an equity strategist at Decision Economics.
He started his career at HSBC Investment Bank. Nitesh holds a Bachelor of Science in Economics from the London School of Economics and a Master of Arts in International Economics and Finance from Brandeis University (USA).