In this month’s Financial Analysts Journal, Tyler Cowen professor of economics at George Mason University, Virginia makes sense of the current financial crisis by drawing on some of Fischer Black’s ideas.
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A Simple Theory of the Financial Crisis; or, Why Fischer Black Still Matters
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Infrastructure – the way out for the west?
Infrastructure investment has not caught on in the US, compared with institutional investing peers such as Canada, Australia and the UK. But Arjuna Sittampalam, research associate with EDHEC-Risk Institute and editor of Investment Management Review, argues infrastructure is perceived as a way out of the morass in which the US finds itself.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1
US ivy league endowments cling to returns … just
Endowments are back, just. The annual survey of their returns by NACUBO-Commonfund showed an average return of 11.9 per cent for the 850 college and university endowments in the study for the year to June 2010.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Forget sovereign debt as a safe haven: Mercer
The status of sovereign debt as a safe-haven investment has been put into question and the whole approach to bond investing may need to be revisited, according to Mercer, which has urged institutional investors to focus in the coming year on the ‘new realities’ of the global marketplace, which includes sufficient flexibility in their portfolios.mrec4inarticleinline
Israel’s offshore resources to secure SWF future
Israel is considering establishing its first sovereign wealth fund within one year using revenues from recent offshore natural-gas finds, following calls by the International Monetary Fund to do so.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Putting your footprint where your mouth is: CalSTRS reports on carbon emissions
In the latest move to demonstrate the same commitment to climate change it expects from its portfolio companies, CalSTRS has signed The Climate Registry, a leading voluntary greenhouse gas registry in North America. The $147 billion fund will report on its carbon footprint, which was dramatically reduced when it moved into its new building in
New Jersey chair calls for allocation review
Chair of the investment council of the $70 billion State of New Jersey’s Division of Investment, Robert Grady, has called for a new asset allocation plan, pointing in particular to the fund’s cash position which sits at around 2.75 per cent. The fund has also been overweight its domestic equity allocation by about 6 per
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