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Performance persistence: reverting back to normal

The latest performance persistence study by RogersCasey’s managing director, head of global portfolio solutions, Soonyong Park, which incorporates data from the volatile 2008 period, confirms the lack of persistence of returns in the equity asset management universes, and further, that it is more pronounced when long-term results are evaluated.
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Spillover effects of counter-cyclical market regulation

Professor of finance at the EDHEC Business School and member of the EDHEC Risk Institute, Abraham Lioui, looks at the spillover effect that counter-cyclical regulation affecting one part of the market, banning short-selling, has on the broad market. By examining the effect of the ban on short-selling in 2008 on market indices in the US […]
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Corporate US plans expect too much

US corporate defined-benefit plans are still severely underfunded, with an artificially high return expectation contributing to the situation, according to a report of the funding status of 308 US corporate defined benefit plans by Wilshire Consulting.
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