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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US funds rally against corporate mergers
The two largest state public pension funds in the US – the California Public Employees’ Retirement Sysrtem (CalPERS) and the California State Teachers Retirement System (CalSTRS) – have filed a joint motion with the US District Court, Southern District of New York, to be designated lead plaintiff in class actions against Bank of America stemming
Hermes FM to implement ‘responsible’ management
Hermes Funds Management, 100 per cent owned by the UK’s largest pension scheme BT pension fund, will implement “responsible asset management” across its entire product range. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Desperate times for US corporate plans
Investments of more than $100 billion are required to rebalance the equity allocations of the largest US corporate defined benefit plans, as they join their international peers, registering record losses for 2008 and pushing them deep into underfunded territory. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
US funds favour global equities allocations
The home country bias of US public pension plans is diminishing, with the average allocation to US equities, falling from 42.3 per cent to 38.1 per cent from 2003 to 2008. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
Wilshire to drop Dow Jones for index provision
Wilshire will drop Dow Jones as the calculating engine of its indices, and will independently managed its more than 200 indices, including the high-profile Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 index, from April 1. mrec4inarticleinline Sponsored Content scnative1 scnative2 scnative3
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