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Ann C. Logue

Ann C. Logue

Ann C. Logue is Financial Writer at Encyclopædia Britannica.

Ann Logue (rhymes with vogue) is a writer specializing in business and finance. She is the author of five books on investing, including Hedge Funds for Dummies and Day Trading for Dummies, and publishes a Substack newsletter called “The Whatever Years.”

She has worked for several fintech startups as a consultant, employee, and investor. She has also served as a Fulbright grantee and holds the Chartered Financial Analyst designation.

Recent Articles

Investing

The grand IPO rollout: Form S-1 and the transition from private to public

From red herring to road show to market.
Investing

How convertible bonds balance income, equity, and risk

Pay a premium and have it both ways.
Retirement

Regulation, solvency, and other issues facing public pensions

Mind the gap.
Retirement

How defined benefit pension plans manage risk and returns

Predicting the future has its challenges.
Retirement

What is a pension? How defined benefit plans work and who gets them

ERISA and the PBGC.
Investing

Retail investors vs. institutional investors: Bridging the divide

The small money can still be the smart money.
Investing

How T+1 settlement transforms securities transactions

What a difference a day makes.
Household Finance

The paradox of thrift: Understanding economic behavior in recessions

Individually great; collectively painful.
Investing

Inside the corporate bond market: A comprehensive overview

Company debt comes in many varieties.
Investing

What is investment banking? Connecting investors to corporate growth

From primary markets to advisory services.
Investing

How different types of banks operate in the financial system

Connecting surplus with need.
Household Finance

Getting maximum value from downsizing: Declutter for fun and profit

Simplify, simplify.
Investing

Goodwill accounting: A complicated part of mergers and acquisitions

Keeping the balance sheet balanced … with an asterisk.
Investing

Mergers, acquisitions, and other ways companies join forces

The risk is huge, and so is the reward.
Investing

How joint ventures help companies expand opportunities

The lowdown on joining up.
Investing

Decoding the Sharpe ratio: A measure of risk vs. reward

Is your portfolio manager using risk appropriately?
Investing

Harry Markowitz and modern portfolio theory

Whatever you call it, MPT revolutionized finance.
Investing

How the capital asset pricing model (CAPM) changed investing

You probably use it, even if you don’t know it.
Investing

Are markets efficient? How Eugene Fama kicked off a controversy

Research is futile?
Household Finance

The life-cycle theory of savings and personal finance

Your lifetime spending habits affect more than you might think.
Household Finance

Employee stock options and other equity-based incentives

Getting everyone’s interests aligned.
Investing

How start-ups move from seed funding to Series C

Nurturing a start-up.
Household Finance

Pay off your mortgage or invest: A homeowner’s dilemma

Pros, cons, and opportunity costs.
Investing

Shining a light on shadow banking: Benefits, risks, and regulations

We all use them, even if we don’t know it.
Investing

Primary markets and secondary markets: Two important cogs in the wheel of capitalism

Buy and sell—not necessarily at bargain prices.
Investing

Regulation of the OTC derivatives market: Before and after the Dodd-Frank Act

Making the swaps market work, even in times of crisis.
Investing

The swaps market: How companies manage interest rate and other risks with OTC derivatives

Strangers in the night, exchanging cash flows.
Investing

Special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs)

A twist on IPO investing.
Investing

Bond duration: Price, yield, and time to maturity

Long-dated bonds are so sensitive …