Bank debt levels “outrageous”: Stanford professor
In 1840 equity funded more than 50 per cent of bank assets in the US, now it’s around 7 per cent. Banks would never lend to a business with no equity.
Building portfolio resilience in the face of uncertainty
As the multitude of macro-economic risks influence market conditions in unpredictable and unprecedented ways, CIOs are facing the most challenging and interesting times in their careers. A group of investors came together in London to shareideas on how to best assess risk and position their funds for the challenges and opportunities in this increasingly demanding market.
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Active management: turning the argument on its head
One of the enduring areas of asset management academic study, and practitioner query, is whether or not managers have skill. In his work, professor of finance at Stanford, Jonathan Berk, shows the answer doesn’t lie in returns but in manager compensation. Determining whether active skill exists is not the same as looking at whether
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