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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Make the most of your funds managers
Access to investment smarts and better fee alignment are just some of the benefits institutional investors can gain through their mandates with funds managers, says Craig Baker, global head of manager research with Towers Watson.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Conservative overweighting hinders world’s largest investor
An overweight allocation to domestic bonds has not helped the world’s largest investor in the June quarter, with a massive $42 billion shaved off the assets of the ¥116,802 billion ($1.37 trillion), Government Pension Investment Fund of Japan (GPIF).mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Deflation: the taboo which needs to be examined
The funds management industry is famous for its navel-gazing. After a crisis, you can just imagine how much of it goes on. But, perhaps, that self-examination may provide more rewards if it starts to actually look at industry taboos rather than accepted practices.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
European pension funds have blinkered view of risk
The liability-hedging portfolio of European pension funds is imprecisely modelled at nearly half of the pension funds as measured in a EDHEC-Risk Institute survey.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Financial health reports essential says Mercer
After the damage of the global financial crisis, funds should be submitting themselves for voluntary financial health checks to diagnose vulnerabilities and pinpoint risks, asset consulting firm Mercer says. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Liquidity as an investment style
This paper by Yale School of Management Professors, Roger Ibbotson and Zhiwu Chen, shows that liquidity, as measured by stock turnover or trading volume, is an economically significant and distinct investment style, and introduces and examines the performance of several portfolio strategies.mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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