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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Big pension funds list their target asset classes for next 3 years
Investment grade bonds, followed by emerging market equities and then diversified global equities, are the asset classes which will best meet the requirements of large pension funds and multi-manager packagers, according to a survey of the fiduciaries of assets totalling more than $5 trillion. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Peter Bernstein: Risk Inverse
Peter Bernstein, an economic consultant and respected investment thinker passed away on Friday June 5 in New York. Widely regarded as an intellectual giant in the investment circles for his ability to translate complex mathematical models into practical applications, he founded the Journal of Portfolio Management in 1974 and wrote a number of respected books
…as consultant assessment initiates changes to internal equity team and technology
CalPERS has reached its capacity to internally manage equities portfolios and would need to make changes to technology and staff resources if the internally-managed equities program is expanded, according to the outcome of the annual consultant review of CalPERS’ internal equity team by Wilshire Associates. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Asset class review inspires opportunistic allocation at CalPERS’
CalPERS is considering adopting an “opportunistic” program seeking to profit from substantially undervalued assets across various asset classes and strategies, and will be limited to 3 per cent of the fund’s total market value. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
The future of risk management: How independent should risk management be?
Barry Schachter, research associate with the EDHEC Risk and Asset Management Research Centre and director, quantitative resources, Moore Capital Management believes the current crisis is a catalyst for change in the conduct of risk management because it has challenged the efficacy of the existing risk management model, but simply imposing regulation is not the change
SWFs struck at financial crisis epicentre: $50b in losses from financials
For their biggest public market investments in the last two years, sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) zeroed-in on the most dogged companies in the worst-performing sector: Western financials. These decisions incurred paper losses of $US56.3 billion, accounting for most of their public market losses for the period. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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